It is like the “free beer tomorrow” signs at bars.  We will always be one year away from self driving cars.

That earnings call was weird. I like how getting the 4860 up and running was a side note when it should have been the showcase. They claim that they are making them now, but where is the showboating of how much it is reducing costs and how the weight savings will translate to range. Also, it would appear that the…

“So, over time, we think Full Self-Driving will become the most important source of profitability for Tesla. It’s — actually, if you run the numbers on robotaxis, it’s kind of nutty — it’s nutty good from a financial standpoint.”

“All of that up there is stuff Elon is pulling ex recto.”

Magnificent.

I’ve driven the latest version of FSD and if they’ve been working on it for 10 years they have another 10 years to go. It’s not even close.

Are they going to be driven by his new robot army?

Baker’s dozen maybe?

I’m keeping this tab open for ammunition to fire at the Stans when Engadget writes an article about the same statement. 

I think Volvo is going to beat them to this punch. It has been an attention getting conversation point for all this time though so there has been profit in it for Tesla.

Gotta keep those shareholders invested. 

I meant that he can afford a Mercedes.

Assuming he has lost the thumb of his dominant hand, it will be months of work to be able to do stuff like write and the like. Someone else mentioned he is a sheriff, so he will have to re-learn how to use a firearm as well, and I don’t know if he could properly arrest someone if he only had 1 thumb. Of course, his…

What I learned from this article is chief deputies make too much money.

Good lord you’re tedious. The point isn’t that bikes are breakable. They all are, eventually, as you point out. It’s that these break more easily, from lighter use, more quickly, than any bikes previously seen <i>out of all bikes sold to consumers</i> by people who repair bikes for a living.

You want kids to fix...

How did you fix a cracked frame as a kid? I don’t know too many kids who can weld. Props to you if you were one, but that’s not common. Every kid should definitely know basic maintenance of the “wearable” parts, but a frame should be built to last.

I did the same thing as a kid, but I’m no longer a kid and the point here is that this junk is not repairable. This isn’t just disposable kid bikes that get outgrown in a summer, anyway, there are a lot of bikes in adult sizes. The newer crop of trash uses plastic where even a cheap POS should be metal. There are…

“More riders obviously means more bike repairs, but the problem is budget bikes are breaking too often too soon and aren’t actually repairable.”

Interesting, when I was riding bikes as a kid, the bikes proved more durable than my bones. (mid 2000s)