wirelessjoe
Gin and Panic
wirelessjoe

DepLorean.

1992 manual Geo Storm GSi in black with grey interior, bought for $5000 in 1995 with 27K miles on it. Was the first car I owned that didn’t have an analog radio or significant body damage (before I got it). Looked cool (to me) and was peppy enough to be fun but not enough to be too dangerous. Made the 6-hour drive

It will return one line: “The training and use of AI consumes at least 85-150 terawatt-hours annually and could increase to between 620 and 1,050 terawatt-hours or more by 2026; that’s more than many small countries consume for their entire populations. Turn me off.”

Preparing for a lot of anecdotal “evidence” that gas prices aren’t going down nationally because it’s still high at their corner station, and a lot of “yeah but the price of eggs is up!” posts.

The only thing actually gold about this car is the easily stolen bar. Everything else is plated; very low-rent, the guy that buys this probably has a gold-plated toilet to “class up the joint.”

Gold plated everything; Auric Goldfinger would be appalled. It looks like a tacky taxi.

I thought most of the articles I read about dealerships and electric vehicles was that they hated selling them, to the point they were sabotaging their own electric car sales. Now they’re mad that they’re being cut out of the process they cratered.  

It’s funny you think they’ll be worried about things like elections and term limits.

He’s right, but only because Trump won’t be President. Trojan Presidential Candidate JV Dunce will have him declared incompetent within three months and has no problem punishing women like this.

IBM understood the issue in 1979.

Not to get all political, but it’s really impossible to not point out that if Trump wins, he’ll remove all regulation that hampers Musk’s “vision” of FSD and probably designate Tesla as America’s Volkswagen: a highly encouraged transportation option by the federal government.

Effective deterrent, or no? Do I need a hair clip hanging from my rear view mirror as well? Or is there an inexpensive dash cam that you’d recommend? 

People like movie props. Some dude spent $805,000 for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Elon Musk paid $997,000 for the Lotus sub from The Spy Who Loved me. People pay a lot for movie genuine movie props, they pay less per piece but more in total for replicas.

Dodge: the ultimate family car!

Incent uban reintigration. Dismantle highway/freeway corridors between urban centers, invest in free/cheap intra-urban transport and restrict investment inter-urban traffic to public transportation.

Man, what a waste! Just wait until Musk’s Boring Company completes its LA-Palm Springs tunnel....pfffft sorry I just couldn’t bring myself to finish.

Probably Adrian Dittman

As mentioned above and in the previous robotaxi announcement, there is no way Musk is announcing anything but a Tesla being driven buy a guy in a bodysuit at his robotaxi reveal.  If FSD were available, the people who paid for it years ago would have it enabled now.