Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

[Noodles]

"Drive 20% over speed limit"

How is that even legally allowed to be an option?

People in general are insane behind the wheel about this.

If you ever see a discussion on Reddit about driving, if you suggest the speed limit is an upper limit and not a lower limit, people will downvote and ream you for it.

The only thing that gets people more upset there is any suggestion that Marijuana isn't a magic cure all drug with zero side effects.

 

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The only thing that gets people more upset there is any suggestion that Marijuana isn't a magic cure all drug with zero side effects.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

People in general are insane behind the wheel about this.

If you ever see a discussion on Reddit about driving, if you suggest the speed limit is an upper limit and not a lower limit, people will downvote and ream you for it.

I kind of see it as both. Because you're right, they technically can pull you over for going 1 MPH above the limit but you shouldn't be holding up traffic either...

The only thing that gets people more upset there is any suggestion that Marijuana isn't a magic cure all drug with zero side effects.

YEP. It is absurd how researchers weren't allowed to study it for a long time, but now that we have real data it really doesn't seem to be very good for you... I think it's only real medical benefit is helping you eat if you have an illness that makes that difficult (which sometimes is a big deal).

But yes... what is upvoted on reddit is usually just what appeases the average member of that community, not what is true. And a lot of communities are overrun with young people who are interested in the topic, but hardly experts. Many have a problem with the blind leading the blind. Most of the programming subs for example are overrun with students who are KIND OF interested in programming but have no clue what they are talking about. Some of the most upvoted memes on a consistent basis are about how relatable it is to not know what you are doing... I was once downvoted a lot for trying to explain the difference between having a lead help you vs doing it for you...

 

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[Katheryne Helendale]

Given how most people drive, I'd say even at this level of fail, it's still an improvement.

I see you've been around Central California lately!

 

[Essence Lumin]

I kind of see it as both. Because you're right, they technically can pull you over for going 1 MPH above the limit but you shouldn't be holding up traffic either...

I'd like to see how it would play out in court if three people drove in parallel in NJ at 65 in a 65 zone for 100 miles.

 

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I'd like to see how it would play out in court if three people drove in parallel in NJ at 65 in a 65 zone for 100 miles.

Are you trying to start a war?

 

[Soen Eber]

The thing is: Musk has Aspergers syndrome. So you cannot expect him to fully act like a normal adult would anyway. People often tend to forget about that.

Aside that: yes, some of his projects are just downright dumb, like the Las Vegas Loop or hyperloop. This does not change the fact though how successful he became with Tesla.

Musk is not a good technician, but a good PR man in putting his mark on pretty old ideas and making them his own. That's his biggest strength.

From his politics I'd guess his reading material is Heinlein, Pournell, and the Hot Tub Time Machine.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I'm not getting it out YOU get it out

 

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Exclusive: Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge Hours After Elon Musk Announces "Self-Driving" Feature

Elon Musk has said Tesla’s problematic autopilot features are “really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.”

theintercept.com

HIGHWAY SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE from Thanksgiving Day shows a Tesla Model S vehicle changing lanes and then abruptly braking in the far-left lane of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, resulting in an eight-vehicle crash. The crash injured nine people, including a 2-year-old child, and blocked traffic on the bridge for over an hour.

The video and new photographs of the crash, which were obtained by The Intercept via a California Public Records Act request, provides the first direct look at what happened on November 24, confirming witness accounts at the time. The driver told police that he had been using Tesla’s new “Full Self-Driving” feature, the report notes, before the Tesla’s “left signal activated” and its “brakes activated,” and it moved into the left lane, “slowing to a stop directly in [the second vehicle’s] path of travel.”

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

More fuel for the Dawn Project it seems.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well Musk lost almost twice the net worth of Bill Gates, or four time the net worth of Mark Zuckerberg. And he's still almost at Gates plus one Zuck richer than Gates himself.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, senior engineer testifies

Video from 2016 was promoted by Elon Musk as evidence that ‘Tesla drives itself’

www.theguardian.com

 

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NYT takes a deep dive into the character of Elon Musk - Autoblog

The New York Times Magazine published a 7,000-word exploration of Elon Musk and why he inflicted a warts-and-all "Full Self-Driving" system on the public.

www.autoblog.com

It’s worth repeating the [The New York Times Magazine] story’s first paragraph to understand the story’s premise and clear one’s head for what follows:

“Early on, the software had the regrettable habit of hitting police cruisers. No one knew why, though Tesla’s engineers had some good guesses: Stationary objects and flashing lights seemed to trick the A.I. (artificial intelligence). The car would be driving along normally, the computer well in control, and suddenly it would veer to the right or left and — smash — at least 10 times in just over three years.”

In the next paragraph, this: “… these crashes might seem like a problem. But to Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, they presented an opportunity.”

His customers are pawns.

 

[Noodles]

If I had to guess.

They coded the car to pull over for flashing lights like cops and ambulances.

But failed to specify "from behind".

And some shoddy programming, it approaches a cop pulling someone over, it says "I need to pull over"..... Into the cop.

 

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Musk testifies in fraud trial, points out that not everyone believes what he says

Musk denies impact on Tesla stock price in case over false "funding secured" tweet.

arstechnica.com

 

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'Elon Musk has made me embarrassed to drive my Tesla now'

Elon Musk was once hailed as the secret to Tesla's success. Now he's one of its problems.

www.bbc.co.uk

When Anne Marie Squeo received her fiery red Tesla sports utility vehicle in 2020, the 55-year-old marketing and communications professional felt like she had joined a special "club" of people who were doing something to help the environment, while still driving with style.

But last year, as Tesla boss Elon Musk shared right-wing conspiracy theories on Twitter, posted a picture of guns by his bedside, and proposed terms to resolve the war in Ukraine that were adamantly rejected by many of the country's top leaders, Anne Marie's satisfaction gave way to shame.

"It's been very depressing, and sometimes embarrassing to be driving this car around," says Anne Marie, a former journalist who lives in Connecticut and wrote an article about her discomfort. "I wondered if people were making a judgement about me that I wasn't looking for."