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Hrm.

Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective

Shreyansh Jain was ecstatic in March when he picked up his first electric vehicle, a brand-new 2023 Tesla Model Y. He used a sizable chunk of family savings to buy it with cash.

“We were over the moon!” said Jain, an electronics engineer in Cambridge, England.

His exuberance came to a “grinding halt” one day later, with 115 miles on the odometer, Jain told Reuters. As he drove with his wife and three-year-old daughter, he suddenly lost steering control as he made a slow turn into their neighborhood. The vehicle’s front-right suspension had collapsed, and parts of the car loudly scraped the road as it came to a stop.

The complex repair required nearly 40 hours of labor to rebuild the suspension and replace the steering column, among other fixes, according to a detailed repair estimate. The cost: more than $14,000. Tesla refused to cover the repairs, blaming the accident on “prior” suspension damage.

Jain is one of tens of thousands of Tesla owners who have experienced premature failures of suspension or steering parts, according to a Reuters review of thousands of Tesla documents. The chronic failures, many in relatively new vehicles, date back at least seven years and stretch across Tesla’s model lineup and across the globe, from China to the United States to Europe, according to the records and interviews with more than 20 customers and nine former Tesla managers or service technicians.

 

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As a non-Telsa owner, I found this an enjoyable read.

You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk | Defector

Tesla cars are shoddily built pieces of shit liable to fall apart and malfunction in dangerous ways at inopportune moments. No, this is not a blog from 2012! It is also not a blog from 2015 or 2018 or 2022. It is not even a blog from two weeks ago about Tesla’s self-driving systems killing…

defector.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

What the end of Hyperloop One tells us about Elon Musk

The tycoon insisted his high-speed pods could rival cars and trains. Despite Richard Branson’s backing, the project has fallen apart spectacularly

www.thetimes.co.uk

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[Bartholomew Gallacher]

What the end of Hyperloop One tells us about Elon Musk

The tycoon insisted his high-speed pods could rival cars and trains. Despite Richard Branson’s backing, the project has fallen apart spectacularly

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Well according to the author of Musk's biography, Ashlee Vance, Musk just proposed the Hyperloop in order to prevent the Californian highspeed railway to happen - which failed by the way, because it will be build. And this was known since 2019.

At the time, it seemed that Musk had dished out the Hyperloop proposal just to make the public and legislators rethink the high-speed train. He didn’t actually intend to build the thing. It was more that he wanted to show people that more creative ideas were out there for things that might actually solve problems and push the state forward. With any luck, the high-speed rail would be canceled. Musk said as much to me [Ashlee Vance] during a series of e-mails and phone calls leading up to the announcement. “Down the road, I might fund or advise on a Hyperloop project, but right now I can’t take my eye off the ball at either SpaceX or Tesla,” he wrote.

And I mean it was typical vaporware, just like crypto stuff. Enough people with solid physics and engineering knowledge repeatedly pointed out the obstacles a hyperloop must overcome, before becoming a thing, but people invested regardless. Because it was Musk. And those obstacles are huge, like:

1. how to evacuate such a thing in case of an emergency?
2. how to ensure no American shoots a bullet at that thing in the desert?
3. how to create the big partial vacuum needed for that beast?
4. how to ensure that the tunnel is not getting crushed because of the difference in pressure?
5. a physical structure gets larger with heat and contracts with getting colder. How to ensure that length contraction is not an issue? For a long tube this could mean several hundred yards per day of getting smaller and longer.

And so on. It's no wonder that still after 10 years of research no real progress has been made, because the technical problems at large scale are huge.

https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-california-high-spee-1849402460

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Tesla is pulling the Disney+ app remotely from its cars, much to the dismay of car owners. This is probably Musk's revenge for Disney pulling off all ads from Twitter.

Tesla Is Disappearing Disney+ From Its Cars

It is now harder to watch Cars in cars.

www.vulture.com

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

2. how to ensure no American shoots a bullet at that thing in the desert?

It's sad that this even has to be considered.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

And I mean it was typical vaporware,

How much you wanna bet that he knew it was doomed and still kept bringing in revenue for it? Strong scent of 'The Producers' on this one.

"Springtime for Elon and Hyperloop....
winter for Disney and X....
Elon is tweeting at a faster pace,
Look out! here comes the 'Master' race..."

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Cybertruck Gen 2 design just dropped

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Senators demand Tesla recalls over defective parts, slam Elon Musk for blaming customers

A Reuters report found that Tesla told NHTSA and customers that the frequent failures of defective parts in its electric vehicles were caused by driver “abuse,” such as hitting a curb.

nypost.com

 

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Does Elon believe that Cesarean births are giving us brainiacs?

 

[Noodles]

Does Elon believe that Cesarean births are giving us brainiacs?

Surely Musk would know, he strikes me as someone who's mother had to have her entire abdomen removed in order to accommodate his massive genius.

/s

I think I threw up a little just making that joke.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Does Elon believe that Cesarean births are giving us brainiacs?

I'm not even sure what his logic is supposed to be there. Is he implying that if vaginas squeeze babies' heads too much during birth, their brains won't be able to grow as large as the person develops?

 

[Veritable Quandry]

This is why humans are underdeveloped at birth compared to other animals. Our brains continue to grow. Brain size at birth is not a limiting factor, we have evolved to overcome it.

 

[Noodles]

I'm not even sure what his logic is supposed to be there. Is he implying that if vaginas squeeze babies' heads too much during birth, their brains won't be able to grow as large as the person develops?

I think the implication is that because more babies are born via c section, we, as a species, have evolved to have larger heads/brains, because it no longer has to fit though a vagina. Like somehow in the next few generations l, vaginal birth won't even be possible because big heads or something.

Nevermind that is not how any of that works.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Paywalled, but the headline is really something. WSJ was kissing his ass for a long time (to the point of lying)... They are finally done with him apparently:

Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX

Some executives and board members fear the billionaire’s use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies.

www.wsj.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Rich guy used drug is not a story. Hahahahaha

 

[Noodles]

Rich guy used drug is not a story. Hahahahaha

I saw a different article on this and apparently part of the deal for Space X, being a Government deal, is that the employees are regularly tested and not using drugs.

Which includes Musk.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Summary of the story here

Elon Musk dismisses claims drug use is causing alarm at Tesla and SpaceX

Musk, 52, is rumoured to have taken a range of illegal mind-altering substances, from LSD, cocaine and ecstasy to magic mushrooms, according to the Wall Street Journal

www.thetimes.co.uk

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