I made this comment the other day. Sounds like it still applies. Tesla are car Boeing.
That’s not fair to Boeing. They have models (787) with zero hull losses.
Yeah but I'd say that's more luck than ability at this point though.
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#102They're using startup tactics to produce 2 ton vehicles.
What better way to move fast and break things?
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#103carpets on the older cars is still a problem. They had round adhesive velcro patches that stuck to round smooth areas on the underside of the carpets. These would velcro to pucks that screwed into the floor carpet there all kinds of problems - the picks would come loose, and the adhesive holding the velcro patch to the carpet would come loose in a hot car. and the carpets would bunch up, usually under the accelerator…
>No shifter stalk anymore, car guesses direction you want to go, no turn signal stalk, no headlight/wiper stalk, etc Sounds like they talked to the designers at Apple.
one-button mouse.
Re: My battle with Tesla: I want to clear my name before I die
#104>"I want to clear my name. I wish Elon Musk had the decency to apologise," is her message to the company’s billionaire boss. Know this: You will never get a narcissist to genuinely apologize.
Sure, but... it's easy to imagine what an apology would cause: a precedent. That would open the door to a lot more potential issues.
This is also true; apologies would quite possibly be useful in a legal action.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Braking is fundamental to driving, how is it dangerous? If the gas pedal was stuck to the floor and I was on the highway my first instinct would be to stomp on it a few times to get try and get it dislodged. If that failed, I’d put it in neutral, brake, and pull over somewhere out of the way.
You're on the highway going 80 with traffic and all of a sudden you have to stop. In the middle of the highway! How is that not dangerous?
Discussion was gas vs EV braking, op was guessing it's impossible to kill an EV with stuck accelerator...
Of course stuck accelerator is dangerous in any situation in any car...
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#106I made this comment the other day. Sounds like it still applies. Tesla are car Boeing.
You literally know nothing about either companies
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#107Reportedly, Tesla is having a big issue with their accelerator pedal right now. The thin metal cover of that pedal is not always thoroughly secured and slides off easily, wedging itself into the carpet behind the pedal. This causes the accelerator to be stuck (at high velocity!). https://insideevs.com/news/716031/tesla-cybertruck-stuck-acc... As a Tesla customer, you are part of the QA team. That's what you get when…
> As a Tesla customer, you are part of the QA team.
Tesla sells more cars now than BMW or MB.
They have least hardware recalls in industry.
This issue is on a brand new model thats sold less than 10k vehicles.
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#108carpets on the older cars is still a problem. They had round adhesive velcro patches that stuck to round smooth areas on the underside of the carpets. These would velcro to pucks that screwed into the floor carpet there all kinds of problems - the picks would come loose, and the adhesive holding the velcro patch to the carpet would come loose in a hot car. and the carpets would bunch up, usually under the accelerator…
>No shifter stalk anymore, car guesses direction you want to go, no turn signal stalk, no headlight/wiper stalk, etc Sounds like they talked to the designers at Apple.
Both companies are valued in trillions.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a petrol engine car you could react by shifting out of gear and flooring the brake pedal (and the clutch pedal if you have one). But what do you do in an electric car? Teslas do have a neutral gear, but it's more and more hidden with every new car generation (according to https://www.notateslaapp.com/tesla-reference/598/how-to-put-... , for some newer models it's only available via the touchscreen). So you have to…
AFAIK pressing the brake pedal should cut the throttle (even most ICE cars do that) and also the brakes should be able to overpower the motors (unless you're doing 200 km/h down a mountain and you melt them before you can stop).
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do we know this for sure? For all we know, the pyramid laborers were paid a fair wage for the time.
They were almost certainly built with corvée labour; most people would consider this slavery today (except possibly in the context of military conscription), but not at the time.
Very interesting; I didn't know about this before. Reading the wikipedia article about it, it really doesn't seem like what we think of as "slavery" though. It actually seems more like a form of taxation, but instead of paying the government with money, you pay with your time and labor.