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And the bus thingy probably will combust when its speed drops below 50 miles per hour or something.
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However, one proposed feature of the futuristic two-seater stood out. According to Musk, the vehicle will have no charging plug and will depend on wireless charging coils embedded in roadways instead.
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Optimus? Musk is seriously the least creative man out there. That’s not even trying to come up with a name for the robot.
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I think we all know who Mr. Free Market expects to foot the bill for that new infrastructure.
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Even if he was going to pay for it, what happens if a car runs out of charge before it can get to one of those roadways, hire a tow truck to take it there?
All the people who put limits on his galaxy-brain stupidity are gone. (And I suspect they left because he wasn’t listening to them any more.)
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Jalopnik is having a field day:
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Every naming convention he’s come up with is either “Let’s call it ‘X’” (his proposed name for PayPal, his rocket company, one of the Tesla models, his rebranding of Twitter, his own unfortunate son) or “Let’s rip off the Transformers franchise” (Cyber-[noun], Optimus, “Beast Mode”).
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Thanks for the round-up!
Vantazach over on Threads pulled out this beauty:
“Jalopnik choosing violence.”
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From the last article:
The best explanation that I’ve heard for this form factor is that it was originally supposed to be the long-promised cheap “model 2” until Elon forced the designers to repurpose it so that he could try and please investors with a cab instead.
There’s no point in a cab or any other car to be “sporty” if a human doesn’t get to enjoy driving it.
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This is what happens when you heil a cab.
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… and wouldn’t it be safer for passengers to be facing backwards if they’re not involved in driving the vehicle 
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“The robocab is experiencing a moment of contemplation, as per user agreement everything is your responsibility and fault now.”
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They’d have to include a dispenser for fresh and a disposal unit for used barf bags.
And make the interior really easy to clean…
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RAF passenger aircraft used to have the seats facing the back for safety. It made no difference to the passengers inclined to air sickness.
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