Elon Musk

doesnt seem great

Enron-esque I hope

We have heard from several sources who told us that the reason for these firings is because Rebecca Tinucci, former head of Tesla’s EV Charging division, resisted Musk’s demand to fire large portions of her team.

did someone have a temper tantrum

You have to wonder what this does to car sales. Buying a car has become in part a decision about “support”, software updates, chargers, security updates, etc. Tesla is becoming a company people do not expect to fulfill expectations of baseline support (or even be around in the same form) for the lifetime of the car.

Assuming the parts continued to exist, you could buy a mainstream ICE 30 years ago and not care one way or the other if the manufacturer stopped making it or went out of business.

Computers with wheels that require access to secure silicon enclaves in order to “service” are v different!

seems like hes trying to do to tesla what he did to twitter cause that worked so well

at this point musk doesn't bother to evaluate his impulses, he just acts on them and trusts that he'll still be super-rich no matter how badly they turn out. how they might affect anyone else is irrelevant.

other theory popped into my head: Elon doesn't give a shit about owning/maintaining a charging network regardless of whether it's a profit center and now that all the other automakers are on board with his company's standard he thinks someone else should be installing and maintaining them

If this is legit then it ought to be all over the news, however

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1cm30kp/elon_talks_to_nazi_nick_fuentes_via_his_alt/

Elon Musk’s no.2 at Tesla goes back to China as the CEO isolates himself at the top
https://electrek.co/2024/05/06/elon-musk-no-2-tesla-goes-back-to-china-ceo-isolates-himself-top/

increasingly isolated

he should consider building a giant water plane

adrian dittman isn't musk. he's a british guy doing an impersonation.

I think that was confirmed at some point recently. Elon’s confirmed burners are that smurf one and the one where he pretends to be his child.

Typing that made me remember how incredibly dumb this all is

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-autopilot-probe-us-prosecutors-focus-securities-wire-fraud-2024-05-08/

everything is securities fraud

U.S. courts previously have ruled that “puffery” or “corporate optimism” regarding product claims do not amount to fraud. In 2008, a federal appeals court ruled that statements of corporate optimism alone do not demonstrate that a company official intentionally misled investors.
Justice Department officials will likely seek internal Tesla communications as evidence that Musk or others knew they were making false statements, said Daniel Richman, a Columbia Law School professor and former federal prosecutor.

“Wire fraud” and “mail fraud” are afaict unique to the US. the idea that fraud is qualitatively different because you enlisted the us mail or ma bell to unknowing carry your messages. Wot’s dat abaht?

Interstate commerce, probably?

dont mess with our wires

yeah milo otm - one of the ways for federal prosecutors to get jurisdiction in a case is to prove that it affected interstate commerce (since that's one of the enumerated powers of the federal gov via the constitution) so wire fraud/mail fraud is one of the easiest hooks to do so

see also discussions in mob movies about rico and keeping crime within state boundaries / getting worried when it crosses state lines

fun (or not so fun) fact/factoid: the commerce clause in the constitution is how pretty much all federal legislation gets passed, one of the more famous examples (as oft repeated in law school) being the violence against women act...

and ofc scotus's right wing has displayed a renewed interest in recent years in limiting its scope... so stay tuned

https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-lidar-hater-is-probably-going-to-use-lidar-1851463266

lol

how many months until he tries to stiff them on the bill again because "it's too expensive"

haha yeah I feel like you should short any a small, cash poor company that announces its new biggest customer is Elon Musk

I don't think lidar's going away and a few companies are going to bomb out or get acquired but it's still a growth industry

some truly unprecedented stuff going on in the mind palaces of the cybertruck design team

THE CYBERTRUCK TRIES TO CLOSE *HARDER* IF IT ENCOUNTERS RESISTANCE???? pic.twitter.com/hT8EdZXVy9

— gender moroha mode (@50TurnParty) May 8, 2024

every time i remember abt neuralink i shudder

shudders amplifying:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/08/neuralinks-first-in-human-brain-implant-has-experienced-a-problem-company-says-.html

v happy to forego the joy of dunking on elon for this transplant guy to be ok to be clear

is this something: neurafrunk

eh, that's how every automatic gate behaves. I don't think the cybertruck is uniquely bad here, except that the panels are knives xxp

how does a non-living thread “retract”? more like rejected, or attacked by cellular activity i’d think?

its not enough to alienate potential customers one must kill current ones

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/bafkreifv5n3f6pimh74y3wbhxd6o64k4zcf3lqtqjhizidyxng7c5kf5zm@jpeg

while one driver is enslaved by that nag none of us are free, cmon

seem to recall that elon has gotten in trouble for asking for a tug before

is he simply ah-well-nevertheless-ing the NHTSA recall query? WE SHALL SEE

someone should recall this Musk guy. i think he has a screw loose! :)

scott youve gone too far

eh, that's how every automatic gate behaves. I don't think the cybertruck is uniquely bad here, except that the panels are knives xxp

Really? The hatchback on my Mazda immediately reverses and re-opens if it senses resistance. Even if it's just a bag blocking the closure it seems like bad design to push harder, unless you're fine with breaking a carton of eggs or something.

Yeah, sliding doors in minivans immediately reverse upon any significant resistance.

my forester will compress the contents of the trunk a little bit to close. I don't know if it behaves differently if the thing it's compression is at the edge of the gate, i.e. something sticking out of the trunk, vs, a shopping bag pushing against the inside of the window. it does give up eventually.

my parents forester doesn't have a power liftgate but i've thought about installing an aftermarket one

https://i.imgur.com/SyBlcwL.png

one of this guy's many issues seems to be that he trusts basically no one who works for him

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/1cnp13y/elon_himself_wtf/

My Ford Escape's gate definitely goes back up if it encounters anything even slightly wrong (i.e., like the cargo mat sticking out or something). It's a mild inconvenience when this happens because it is very slow to do so, but I'd rather that than someone be physically injured. I accidentally slammed my daughter's finger in the trunk (of a different car with a manual trunk) when she was a toddler and, while she was okay after an hour or two of ice pack applications, it really sucked.

i dont like the experience of the computer hatchback but i guess it is safer, unless its telsa

Like iPhones vs flip-phones and landlines, the lack of an angry slamming option is a drawback to computer hatchbacks. Jabbing the down button and then standing there for a minute while it closes just isn't the same.

xps at caek: compressing a little means it's not meeting enough resistance to stop, right? the resistance threshold is just higher than zero

the reason you don't want it to keep retrying (and definitely not retry HARDER) is the same reason a powered garage door opener will stop and go back up if it hits something. you could be crushing a person

eh, I have no idea what I'm talking about. my point is that these things are tuned to overcome greater than *zero* resistance. doing that does involve the force they exert increasing momentarily (physics).

a car boot door is just one of those things that doesn't need to be automated imo, you can just shut it yourself

my last old banger had an "automatic" hand-brake that was just the biggest pain-in-the-ass, burned out a clutch trying to find the bite point with it while doing a hill-start, a manual hand-brake would have been so much better.