Hi there, Elon!!
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With that username, and the quality of the post, it might be his toddler son
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I think the negative example of the idiot former president is something the Tesla stakeholders need to learn from, because it’s only putting off the inevitable. There will be no turnaround.
Best cash in now, get the pain over with, and move on without the idiot Twitter owner.
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No argument here. This sunk cost fallacy is a hell of a thing though.
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Sad but true.
IIRC, With normal car dealerships if something like this were to happen, the person inspecting the car at delivery time would have gotten a tongue lashing, a loaner would be issued, and the car would have been run through the service department at no charge to have the problem fixed gratis and promptly, especially for something that expensive.
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Incidentally we learn that closing down the talking-to-the-media department is SOP for companies in the Musk empire.
Since Tesla no longer has a media relations department, The Drive was unable to reach out to the automaker for comment.
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Can he? What sort of limitations did DoD put on him after the pot live on air episode?
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I don’t know if he made a promise to the DoD not to fire any executives there but even if he did, since when has he allowed a legally-binding contract affect his “genius” business decisions?
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Yeah, that was my internal objection to that thought too, but he wouldn’t stand much of a chance against the DoD and I can see them coming down like a box of hammers.
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Yoda voice “thin is the skin with this one”.
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How about we don’t bring kids who have nothing to do with his shittiness into this…
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I still maintain putting it 2 inches behind the gear lever on a damn manual is stupider. Unless you’re drinking espresso or those stubby french bottled lagers I suppose.
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That is pretty crap design! The 4-seater is a manual, but the two cup holders in front of the shifter are still quite prone to interference from 1st 3rd and 5th. The thing I circled in this picture is the cup holders, hidden by their silly cover. I don’t think it’s been closed on mine since March of 2002.
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I’ve heard a politican that is against the construction of high speed railways and tunnels to express interst to study the hyperloop solution. Luckily the high speed rail tunneel is under construction and 1/5th is already bored.
By the way the biggest challenge to build a long tunnel is to make geologial studies and surveys to find the best technique to bore it. That tunnel is made in part using a TBM and in part using the old school method of drilling holes in the rocks and put TNT in because the different types of soils.
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… out of “greater fools” already?
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Yeah, a number of Republican politicians used hyperloop as an excuse to oppose various public transportation projects, even above-ground rail that would obviously be cheaper than pressurized tubes carrying bespoke, untested technology.
I saw some engineer take on Musk’s claims that his tunnels would be X times cheaper because the tunnels were more narrow, pointing out that the tunnel size was a pretty negligible portion of the overall cost of making tunnels. The way people took Musk’s claims of cheaper tunnels at face value
was especially absurd in the case of Florida politicians who though he could dig tunnels at a fraction the cost of some which had just been built - even though the cost issue had to do with groundwater, which Musk didn’t even address. It was just willful cluelessness.
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You might have seen it in this thread.
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Seriously. Claiming a functional hyperloop tunnel could be built for less than time-tested rail systems is like claiming a nuclear-powered passenger spaceplane could be built for less than the cost of a 747. Even if the fantasy transport didn’t depend on as-yet-theoretical technology it would still have all kinds of other drawbacks making it far less practical and far, far more dangerous.
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In the Florida case, I believe the politician wanted car tunnels - which is exactly what had been built. Somehow he was just taking Musk’s statement about how much it would cost him to build tunnels at face value, without any evidence, and without any regards to the particular local situation, which inflated costs beyond the norm.
But yeah, it was just like his claims about the cost of hyperloop - “I do it cheaper. How? [shrugs]” and people went along with it, despite hyperloop being untested, requiring custom - and much more complex - technologies, and had far more exacting demands. Including for land, which was the expensive bit, which Musk just waved off. It’s still amazing to me that anyone took that - or him, after that - seriously at all.
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Elon Musk won’t see your tweets comparing him to a dead fish, but your friends - well, actually, he might see the tweet and possibly brick your car.
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