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Tesla is committing automotive suicide

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Re: Tesla is committing automotive suicide

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Post by GJim »

alterom wrote: post #115
Xmd5a wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2 days ago: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/47744955/paok-fans-ki... I'll let you find the video, it's brutal. Allegedly caused by lane assist activating out of the blue when overtaking other cars.

> I'll let you find the video, it's brutal This Daily Mail article¹ has it. It.. doesn't look brutal to me? Just looks like the minibus driver, who was driving on the median , veered across it into the oncoming lane to crash with the semi. He wasn't in a lane to begin with. > Allegedly caused by lane assist activating out of the blue Yeah dawg, imma need a second opinion on this. This is alleged by the survivors of t…

> This Daily Mail article

The Daily Mail really isn't a reputable news source.

Re: Tesla is committing automotive suicide

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Post by littlestymaar »

scottyah wrote: post #265
littlestymaar wrote: post #125

I have no issue understanding why Musk does that, he's gone from “weirdo with lost of enthusiasm and charisma” to “batshit crazy, so full of himself there's basically no negative feedback loop anymore”. What I don't understand is why are the Tesla shareholders accepting his bullshit?

Do you actually care why or is this just a rhetorical question so get hn karma?

Lol, there's way too many Musk fanboys on this platform. Attempting to “get karma” (what for, actually?) by criticizing Musk is a guaranteed failure (as illustrated by the fact that this comment has been heavily downvoted).

Re: Tesla is committing automotive suicide

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Post by direwolf20 »

Alive-in-2025 wrote: post #140
z2 wrote: post #7

Tesla also announced they will be discontinuing the basic lane keep + adaptive speed cruise control they helped pioneer in cars sold going forward. But this is now a standard (free) feature even in basic vehicles like the Toyota Corolla. Why would they intentionally cripple their vehicles to the point hat they would be inferior to most cars today? Then I learned that Musk's incentive pay has a 10 million full self-dr…

Unless they dramatically reduce the price, they won't get to 10 million any time soon if ever. This article discusses paid subscriptions info releases in the earnings report, https://electrek.co/2026/01/28/tesla-discloses-fsd-subscribe... 800k paid subs in q4/2024, about the same in q1/2025, 900k in q2/2025, 1 million in q3/25, and 1.1 million in q4/2025. Let's call that 100k growth per quarter in 2025, and currently…

To juice Copilot subscription numbers, Microsoft renamed Office to Copilot. Musk should do something similar. By renaming the heated seat subscription to "full self–driving" and making it free, I'm sure he could achieve 10 million.

Re: Tesla is committing automotive suicide

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Post by direwolf20 »

Nevermark wrote: post #304
godelski wrote: post #141

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> Simple cooling sinks, dense I think you need to go back to physics class. You seem to not even understand the very basics of heat transfer. You need more than "cold". I'll give you a hint, the problem is the same problem as "in space no one can hear you scream." I'll also mention that the moon isn't very cold, except on the dark side. In the moon's day the temperature is 120C and at night -130C. The same side of th…

> You seem to not even understand the very basics of heat transfer. Basic physics: The moon is very cold in surface shadows and below the surface. It is an enormous pre-chilled heat sink. The surface is also the support structure for any scale of radiative cooling with the same heat physics as orbit, but much better for larger and enhanced radiative engineering. For example, heat pumps can centralize waste heat energ…

Is the moon in space? I guess us-east-1 is also a space data center, if you think about it.

Re: Tesla is committing automotive suicide

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Post by direwolf20 »

Xmd5a wrote: post #282
alterom wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'll let you find the video, it's brutal This Daily Mail article¹ has it. It.. doesn't look brutal to me? Just looks like the minibus driver, who was driving on the median , veered across it into the oncoming lane to crash with the semi. He wasn't in a lane to begin with. > Allegedly caused by lane assist activating out of the blue Yeah dawg, imma need a second opinion on this. This is alleged by the survivors of t…

thanks anon for rectifying the record.

with the daily mail? I don't think so

Re: Tesla is committing automotive suicide

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Post by direwolf20 »

array_key_first wrote: post #201
Analemma_ wrote: post #86

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I have a 2022 Model 3, and the hilariously tragic part is that the voice assistant was great and basically never gave me any problems until they shoved Grok into it, whereupon it broke completely. I never use it anymore, they effectively removed a feature from my car.

This is part of the reason why I believe cars should delegate as much software functionality to your phone as possible. Phones have good voice assistants and they will get better, same with GPS and music. Just let the phone do it. Plus, when the software is out of support you don't have to buy a new car.

What if I don't have my phone, or if someone else drives the car?

Re: Tesla is committing automotive suicide

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Post by littlestymaar »

Qwertious wrote: post #213
littlestymaar wrote: post #125

I have no issue understanding why Musk does that, he's gone from “weirdo with lost of enthusiasm and charisma” to “batshit crazy, so full of himself there's basically no negative feedback loop anymore”. What I don't understand is why are the Tesla shareholders accepting his bullshit?

Tesla shareholders who fully believe Musk is crazy will either 1) be quietly selling their stocks and don't want to draw attention, or 2) factored in the crazy and bought in anyway. If the craziness started today then that would be a good question, but it's been years .

I mean of course Musk has been crazy for years, but there's 1. “calling the leader of a rescue mission a pedo”-cazy and 2. “Tesla exits the personal car market”-crazy and as much as I can understand that investors could get away with 1., it's unbelievable to me that they accept 2.

Re: Tesla is committing automotive suicide

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Post by direwolf20 »

gizzlon wrote: post #316
hinkley wrote: post #90

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It’s almost as if a company would be better off having a CEO who wasn’t also the CEO of four other companies while also dabbling in geopolitics.

and drugs

He does more than dabble in drugs

Re: Tesla is committing automotive suicide

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Post by direwolf20 »

wraptile wrote: post #314
etchalon wrote: post #28

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Well, they pivoted to saying they're going to make robots. Any day now.

Who in their right mind would buy a robot from Tesla anyway.

That's what we thought about satellite internet and here we are
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