Petty and stupid!
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Right? Who wouldn’t want a chance to get the opposing counsel in a case they lost on their side?
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Well well well–let’s hear more about miraculous self-driving Tesla technology, and, oh, how technology is a panacea?
The booster was originally launched from Florida in February 2015 as part of an interplanetary mission to send a space weather satellite on a million-mile journey.
But after completing a long burn of its engines and sending the NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory on its way to the Lagrange point – a gravity-neutral position four times further than the moon and in direct line with the sun – the rocket’s second stage became derelict.
At this stage it was high enough that it did not have enough fuel to return to Earth’s atmosphere but also “lacked the energy to escape the gravity of the Earth-Moon system”, meteorologist Eric Berger explained in a recent post on Ars Technica.
“So it has been following a somewhat chaotic orbit since February 2015,” Berger added.
Space observers believe the rocket – about four metric tonnes of “space junk” – is on course to intersect with the moon at a velocity of about 2.58km/s in a matter of weeks.
Bill Gray, who writes software to track near-Earth objects, asteroids, minor planets, and comets, has said the Falcon 9’s upper stage will very likely hit the far side of the moon, near the equator, on 4 March.
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“ Later, in response to a question about a lower-priced Tesla for mainstream consumers, Musk said that project is not currently underway.
“We’re not currently working on the $25,000 car,” Musk said. " At some point we will. We have enough on our plate right now. Too much on our plate, frankly."
Musk has repeatedly suggested a $25,000 Tesla is possible. He said in 2018 it would take Tesla about three years to develop, though he didn’t provide a timeline for when it might happen. And, in 2020, Musk suggested at the company’s shareholder’s meeting that Tesla would launch such a car within the next three years.
“About three years from now, we’re confident we can make a very compelling $25,000 electric vehicle that’s also fully autonomous,” he claimed in 2020. Musk is notorious, however, for being overly optimistic with his predictions.
Bernstein Senior Analyst Toni M. Sacconaghi Jr. followed up, asking, “If there is no $25,000 vehicle being worked on is it really realistic to think that you can sell more than 3 million vehicles with 2 very high volume cars and Cybertruck in 2024?”
Musk peevishly replied, “I mean, it is apparent from the questions that the gravity of Full Self Driving is not fully appreciated.”
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It looks as if the toxic techbro in chief is losing his touch, thank Eris. And really, the more he pushes the pipe dream of self driving, the better for him to fall on his face. Self Driving cars will always suffer from us expecting them to be better than humans, from the unrealistic expectation that it should be accident-free. And the toxic techbro is all too willing to push that fairytale.
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Here’s a twofer today
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Elon Musk Promises Full Self-Driving “Next Year”…
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It’s moving along. He’s got the full self crashing part down pat.
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You can bet that he’s vaccinated and his kids are vaccinated.
The insignificant proles should just GTF back to work.
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Stingy billionaire gets stingy again.
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Dumb.
He should have made a decent first offer and shut that down quietly. Now, the idea has spread to lots of people who could grab a raw ADS-B data feed and parse his plane out.
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You must have misunderstood then. Musk is the smartest man who ever lived. Why, he has lots of money and used it to hire engineers who were just a few months away from making self-driving cars years before anyone else. He has visionary ideas like making a Mars colony by ignoring all the things that make Mars colonies hard. He wouldn’t do something dumb, just eccentric.
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needs an elon reboot
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Tesla recalls 54,000 vehicles because ‘Full Self-Driving’ software rolls through stop signs
The recall shows that Tesla programmed its vehicles to violate the law in most states, where police will ticket drivers for disregarding stop signs.
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Yes, it was obvious. To many, many people.
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