Elon Musk

Or the 299! What an amazing road.

This is way off topic, but I was driving from SF up to a memorial service in Tacoma in late September 2018 and the Delta Fire broke out in Shasta County CA north of Redding. They closed Highway 5. I asked people at a restaurant in Redding which way I should go, and they said take 299 to 89 and go around to the East.

Well, that didn't work out at all. About a quarter of a mile from Redding on 299 the traffic was at a complete standstill. I went back to Redding and asked again, and they said take highway 44 to the south and east to 89. It was clear, and wended its way through a serious pine forest, with Mount Lassen visible in the distance, and was one of the most amazing roads I have ever driven on.

I think the last time I drove down from mountains lag∞n was in my car and that happened

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nice, good times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kAIMlISHhU

wild how theres one tattoo in that video, different times (before tattoos were common)

engine braking is cool, i don’t think it’s widely taught. i understand some roads like pikes peak will have brake check stations on the downhill where they make you pull in to measure the temperature of your brakes, to make sure thryre not so hot as to cause brake fade. if you are an engine braker you can impress them with low temps.

they should have a special engine breaker sticker to give to the good people

they should have a like a speed gun but for like brake temp and like salute you when you drive by engine braking all cold brakes like

they should play a bugle as you cruise by on ice cold breaks

but if your breaks are overheated they should shoot you with guns

they should stop you for not having like....snow chains on your brakes so cold

elon better be reading this i bet he is tho

This is way off topic, but I was driving from SF up to a memorial service in Tacoma in late September 2018 and the Delta Fire broke out in Shasta County CA north of Redding. They closed Highway 5. I asked people at a restaurant in Redding which way I should go, and they said take 299 to 89 and go around to the East.

Well, that didn't work out at all. About a quarter of a mile from Redding on 299 the traffic was at a complete standstill. I went back to Redding and asked again, and they said take highway 44 to the south and east to 89. It was clear, and wended its way through a serious pine forest, with Mount Lassen visible in the distance, and was one of the most amazing roads I have ever driven on.

i was driving on 101 in humbolt once and got rerouted cause of landslides, driving on quasi sketchy mountain roads in torrential rain with all the detoured traffic trucks and whatnot, hours to go before i sleep

he gives his harness bells a shake
to ask if there is some mistake
the only other sound's the sweep
of an almost unused pedal brake

robert frosty brakepads, stopping by clutch on a snowy evening beautiful

Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective

Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic ‘flaws’ and ‘failures’ for years.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/

unbelievable

Andrew Lundeen, of Santa Rosa, California, was driving his wife’s 2018 Model 3 in August when he rode over a speed bump and lost power steering.

Lundeen said in an interview that a Tesla service manager told him that a power-steering connector had corroded. The manager said the likely cause was a car wash, which he described as a known problem.

Lundeen paid $4,400 to replace the steering rack and a wiring harness.

“This is the only car that I’ve ever heard of where a car wash can damage the wiring,” Lundeen recalled telling the manager.

Lundeen said he was so shocked by the manager’s frank explanation of Tesla’s part failures that he wrote it down: “All I can tell you,” the Tesla manager said, “is we’re not a 100-year-old company like GM and Ford. We haven’t worked all the bugs out yet.”

i like the idea that ford has been working the bugs out for 100 years lol

iirc, it was around year 53 when Ford figured out how to not make water ruin their cars

MUSK cybercitybus will be a bad municipal investment

I’m picturing Teslas having a little clothing tag hanging from the inside of the hood that says “HAND WASH ONLY” in small print

lol

"Do not remove this tag under penalty of Elon Must doxxing you on X"

shifting the blame to the customer by saying they washed it when cars encounter water in many non car wash situations, low ridiculous behavior

more Tesla nightmares https://fighttorepair.substack.com/p/teslas-a-vocal-opponent-of-the-right

i actually rode in a tesla last night for the first time.

one of those revel taxis that are cheap because VCs are setting money on fire again.

just a model 3, but it was a very uncomfortable ride (suspension) and the interior looks like shit.

its wild in an era of crazy good interiors theyre getting away with that shit

I got angrily beeped at and a "WHAT THE FUCK DUDE" from a Tesla driver yesterday because I had the audacity to pull over to the side of the road with my blinkers on to pick up my son after school. There was a whole open lane right next to me for the guy to drive around, but I know what happened: He started gunning the accelerator straight out of a stop sign and was probably not even actually watching the car in front of him until he almost rear-ended me. What the fuck yrself dude.

you had the audacity not to conform to his expectation of what you ought to be doing

The Tesla has definitely replaced the Bimmer as the asshole driver's car of choice.

yea I've probably mentioned this before but it's pretty wild how terrible Tesla interiors are and how little thought is given to the experience of anyone outside of the person driving the car. it's given the same degree of care as the fake staging furniture you see at WG&R.

I got angrily beeped at and a "WHAT THE FUCK DUDE" from a Tesla driver yesterday

Maybe that car beeped at you on its own, and the shocked/embarrassed driver was yelling at the car?

The Tesla has definitely replaced the Bimmer as the asshole driver's car of choice.

it ought to have done by now, but roadie (cyclists) chatter here is still nope, not yet.

gonna be hard to pass bmw cause of the whole drivers car aspect they have

So far I only know one Tesla owner that has gotten rid of their Tesla. Actually, two! One before Musk showed his true colors, the other after. Musk aside, neither had any love for the car, and simply upgraded to a more luxury vehicle from another more commonly lux maker.

it really is too bad about Beamers, I drove a rental one for a week and I absolutely understood why someone would want that car

id still drive one idc

wish they were still sending us wagons tho

everyone with a BMW should resemble James Spader

id still drive one idc

i've got a nephew in law who advised me with reassuring self-mocking eye-rolls "seriously, i've never had or driven anything but a bmw since i was a kid, and i don't plan to change that." i shrugged and said "also seriously, you seem way too cool a person to say that, but at least the cars are pretty nice."

he should mix it up, get an audi

my friend who kept buying interesting yet fatally flawed cars has a bmw in the back yard or large garage the previous homeowner installed. just a guy who can’t help but buy deals and can’t have things fixed. thankfully he doesn’t seem the type to acquire a Tesla that’ll spontaneously combust

the bmw was from a bad lemon year, I think the transmission was what killed it but I think three of the four windows wouldn’t roll down right

New BMWs are pretty uggo IMO, I still long for an E30 325is coupe. Late '80s 3-series and 5-series BMWs were some of the best looking cars ever, sharp lines without being too much of a boring commuter car.

One era-appropriate Blaupunkt upgrade and I'd have to start buying CDs again.

https://media-r2.carsandbids.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=2080,quality=80/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/photos/9eDejlwd-QrtkFbV452-okm70PfbVf.jpg

everyone with a BMW should resemble James Spader

Everyone with a Tesla, James Woods

yeah older bmws were so much better the tasteful sedan that secretly rips was such sick concept, the new ones look like they rip and arent tasteful, some of the new ones are cool but they really abandoned their whole scheme, they had a good thing going

FWIW, my daughter, who drives a tow truck, says you would have to pay her to drive a European car, any European car. I trust her assessment, she deals with breakdowns and wrecks all day every day.

I've never asked her what she thinks of Tesla, but I assume she'd laugh.

european cars are def not as reliable, but neither are american cars or korean cars, basically japanese cars are just too good, the thing about european cars is that the repairs are more expensive, safety wise i dont think theres a huge difference, unless you take into consideration bmw driver behavior haha

For sure, Japanese cars are her jam, especially Lexus.

yeah lexus is the sweet spot if you want a nice and reliable car, some of them are even a lil fun 2 drive