Tesla is committing automotive suicide

Post by alterom » Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 9:55 PM UTC

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> 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.

Post by burnte » Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 10:40 PM UTC

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If GM killed it to keep it from succeeding, then there is massive precedent to never reuse the tech. In fact, their NiMH battery patents were sold to Texaco/Chevron who held them close and never let anyone use them. From that point, they couldn't follow-up without dumping even more cash into it, effectively burying it. Until new lithium battery tech matured, there was no way to do it again.

>If GM killed it to keep it from succeeding They didn't, and this is just absurd. Not only were electric cars available since the very beginning of cars , but they've always been available as niche options. There are tens of electric cars that postdate the EV1 and predate the Tesla. Do you even know their names? We have stupidly cheap gas. An electric car has only ever been a curiosity for America. Even now, the prim…

Post by nailer » Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 11:08 PM UTC

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In everyone else’s case too. This was supposed to be a Startup News site. Instagram was supposed to be a way to check into cool places in your neighbourhood and see who was around.

In both of those cases, the platforms actually did those things at some point in time and for one later pivoted a few times. When did SpaceX do Earth-to-Earth commercial travel service? How many people have ridden on a BFR?

Post by expedition32 » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:32 AM UTC

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Are you sure about that? The sustainable operation of modern cars is in doubt, from very specialized parts and fully integrated modules, to critical software that will not be updated, to dealer keying required for most every substitute part, the era of anyone being able to run cars for 200,000 miles long after the warranty is over will soon be in the history books.

You say this like the average age and reliability of cars hasn't been skyrocketing for years. Toyota offers a 10-year warranty on new cars, which would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. You can't update the infotainment, but the engine controls have remained modular because it's simply too hard to convince people to buy truly unrepairable cars. Tesla did it, and once people realized that gently tapping a Model 3 wa…

Post by tzs » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 2:39 AM UTC

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I have a Model Y with AI hardware version 4. It is phenomenal at self-driving, and if your impression of FSD is a year old or older, then you are woefully out of date in understanding where the tech is today. If I could, I would send my own grade school child off to her friend's houses and extracurricular activities in my car unaccompanied. It is safer than buses, taxis, and me. Not since Tesla created the first econ…