Maybe instead of wasting time signing this stupid petition y’all can just line up to give Elon a tugger yourselves.

Biden was trying to urge the Big 3 American car companies to shift more towards EVs. Why he wouldn’t invite a company that’s already 100% EV is understandable.

More to the point, to what end? Who cares? There’s no actual political demand here, just to “acknowledge” Tesla as the best and most special boy.

Are you the satisfied Tesla owner staffer from the article? You sound like you want to sit out in the garden with Elon, put your hand on his back and slowly rub it in circles while laughing and telling him he doesn’t need that old coot Biden, he’s got all the friends he needs, maybe even his best friend sitting right…

I don’t know, I wouldn’t bet republican. I’d bet Libertarian, but that particular kind of Californian libertarian where they’re basically right in line with all the usual hard republican positions on everything except drugs and explicitly supporting the Republican party, rather than the more midwest style libertarian…

Why?

Biden has never tweeted about Elon Musk or Tesla, in addition to not publicly acknowledging that they exist.

LOL.  fuck you musky and your cult.

Man it’s such a shame that Tesla is going to be broke now that Biden doesn’t give two fucks about Elon. Because why else would the savior of humanity be so focused on what a damp sock puppet president be doing, to paraphrase EV Jesus. Evesus if you will.

‘while ignoring the elephant in the room’

Yeah, I too would be confused if someone I called names on Twitter didn’t want to publicly support me.

He’s straight up Ben Shapiro level, not merely Republican. He’s mentally ill if he thinks he gets any seat at the adult table.

Musk has to be a Republican. If there’s one thing the Repubs love, it’s “false equivalence”. So Musk is ignored (omigosh!), so he feels he has to go on the warpath—a page right out of (failed) Dictator Donald’s playbook.

I love how Elon is struggling to implement a feature that GM figured out in 1968.

Snow will probably slide right off the front of the nose. There’s no gap between the ‘hood/bonnet’ area and the windshield to make a pile of ice. But that wiper design still sucks even for a prototype. 

Glad you pointed out the downstroke issue.....it had never crossed my mind. And as a northerner, that is an important oversight. So too with those that pointed out this design will be shitty on intermittent in the rain.

Oops, reply got kinja’d. My problem with these vertical wipers is that the initial stroke pushes the water down below the wiper and then the wiper gets up out of the way, so the wind will just take some percentage of that water and push it right back up into the driver’s sightline.

For full auto operation they’ll work…

My problem with the vertical wiper like that is that the initial stroke pushes the water down below the wiper, and then the wiper just moves up out of the way allowing the water to come back up, right?

Like in full auto it works like a normal wiper, but for any intermittent setting it’s just objectively worse at…

I mean it has literal cutting edges so the metaphor is physical reality. Metaphysical seems like it should work here but it doesn’t so instead we have phorphy.

Hidden windshield wipers are a solved problem. Increase the height of the hood slightly or lower the windshield a bit, put them at the bottom, bam. You have hidden wipers. I also don't like the tall wiper because pushing snow down on the initial stroke would be really annoying. But I guess that’s not disruptive…