Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

[WolfEyes]

Actually 240 volts is also the standard voltage in American homes, it's just that you get it as split phase power. But some of your appliances, like clothes dryer, A/C or kitchen stove do use 240 volts indeed.

220V is considered the standard voltage in Europe, while 240V is the standard voltage used in electrical wiring installations within Australia and North America.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well anyway... 120V has some advantages, and it will never change in America. So - nothing wrong with it!

 

[detrius]

Several years ago my wife decided we could afford the "cheap" Tesla and asked me if I wanted one, like, as a birthday present I was going to spend five years paying off or something.

I said "hell no". The build quality issues were already notorious in certain circles.

Plus... I kind of like the idea of an electric car but I'll wait until they're priced like regular econoboxes.

When BMW made an excursion into the carsharing market a few years ago, they placed electric Minis everywhere in Berlin and other German cities. Those are actually quite fun to drive.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Several years ago my wife decided we could afford the "cheap" Tesla and asked me if I wanted one, like, as a birthday present I was going to spend five years paying off or something.

I said "hell no". The build quality issues were already notorious in certain circles.

Plus... I kind of like the idea of an electric car but I'll wait until they're priced like regular econoboxes.

Well... I do remember that video featuring Sandy Munro about the new model 3 back then in 2018, hell yeah. Munro back then stated, especially when looking at the trunk construction of it that the last time he saw a car with such bad build quality was Kia in the 90s. I mean Kia came a long way since then. The original model 3 trunk had some nasty, unwanted features first like being not water proof, so rain entering the trunk. Or rear bumpers falling off.

In later teardowns Munro still found enough issues, but also stated that Tesla fixed quite a lot of the original ones pretty fast. So Tesla made decent progress improving the model 3.

Tesla is a company which is constantly improving its cars, so better don't by the first ones of a kind, but maybe some later ones. Aside that most people still will not buy them for superior build quality for sure.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Even the "good" Teslas are notorious for QA problems and shortcuts, even compared to cheap Japanese econoboxes like mine let alone cars priced at their level.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

[Free]

Ooh, they sent a letter.

US senators call Tesla’s safety review a “sham,” demand answers from Musk

Senators accuse Tesla of hiding an “untold number” of complaints.

arstechnica.com

 

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[Innula Zenovka]

Elon Musk subpoenaed by US Virgin Islands in Jeffrey Epstein case

Elon Musk has been issued with a subpoena by the US Virgin Islands in the territory’s lawsuit against America’s largest bank over its former ties to the paedoph

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link

 

[detrius]

I'm out of words.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Elon Musk Among the Anti-Semites

Criticizing George Soros is not inherently anti-Semitic. But casting him as an avatar of evil is.

www.theatlantic.com

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[GoblinCampFollower]

Elon Musk Among the Anti-Semites

Criticizing George Soros is not inherently anti-Semitic. But casting him as an avatar of evil is.

www.theatlantic.com

Evernote link

He's obviously as bigoted as the day is long. I think it's weird he did not get a lot more shit for his defense of Scott Adams' racist rant.

 

[Free]

Tesla leak reportedly shows thousands of Full Self-Driving safety complaints

The leak contains 100GB of confidential data from Tesla.

www.theverge.com

A Tesla whistleblower has leaked 100GB of data to the German outlet Handelsblatt containing thousands of customer complaints that raise serious concerns about the safety of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) features.

The complaints, which were reported across the US, Europe, and Asia, span from 2015 to March 2022. During this period, Handelsblatt says Tesla customers reported over 2,400 self-acceleration issues and 1,500 braking problems, including 139 reports of “unintentional emergency braking” and 383 reports of “phantom stops” from false collision warnings.

Some of the incidents mentioned by Handelsblatt include descriptions of how cars “suddenly brake or accelerate abruptly.” While some drivers safely gained control of their vehicle, Handelsblatt says others “ended up in a ditch, hit walls or crashed into oncoming vehicles.”

The documents obtained by the outlet also outline Tesla’s policies when responding to the issues customers experience and suggest that Tesla likes to keep its vehicles’ data under wraps.

 

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[Essence Lumin]

Tesla leak reportedly shows thousands of Full Self-Driving safety complaints

The leak contains 100GB of confidential data from Tesla.

www.theverge.com

I have a Toyota Camry 2019 which brakes a bit unexpectedly too. When cruise control is on and it thinks a car is too close in front it brakes. Not really hard but it can be disconcerting, especially when it seems to do it for no reason.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Free]

Getting absurd.

Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match

The ball is now in Musk’s court.

www.theverge.com

After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO shot back by posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet with the caption “send me location.”

I’ve confirmed that Zuckerberg’s post on his Instagram account is, in fact, not a joke, which means the ball is now in Musk’s court. “The story speaks for itself,” Meta spokesperson Iska Saric told me.

Sounds like the way he runs his businesses.

 

[Isabeau]

For anyone who suffers from imposter syndrome, always doubting their own abilities, just look at these two if you need a confidence boost.

 

[Noodles]

For anyone who suffers from imposter syndrome, always doubting their own abilities, just look at these two if you need a confidence boost.

I don't know, it kind of makes it worse. Like "Boy these idiots manged to do these "great" things, how bad am I really that I can't manage to get anywhere on basic shit. Clearly I did something poorly."