So it's a taxi.
Motherfucker loves trying to reinvent the wheel only to end up at the goddamn wheel.
"I'ma invent a giant system that goes underground so we can move people around faster!" That's a subway, you santorum-covered condom.
Par for the course for techbros. His hyperloop was a shittier train. UberPool is a shittier bus. All these dumbfucks grow up being told they're the specialest boys, so of course people who made better things before them were clearly wrong.
Hyperloop was a raging success - it stopped funding of railway. I believe he even admitted that this was behind it to begin with.
Luckily only in Murica.
The liberal parties here tried to make the same argument here, but luckily no one takes them seriously (in Europe this means something different, than in the US. It's not progressive/left-leaning, they are more like Libertarians/Republicans. They don't hate gay people, but hate paying taxes and regulations)
Motherfucker loves trying to reinvent the wheel only to end up at the goddamn wheel.
A shittier version of the wheel.
An oval.
Isn't the Cybertruck steering wheel called a squircle?
Hahahaha
Edit: oh fuck I thought you were just making a joke. Jesus fucking Christ.
Terrible name for a terrible design. Yoke style steering wheels are not safe for cars because they create awkward handholds as they rotate.
Yoke style works in planes and race cars where they aren't rotated 360+ degrees regularly, rarely over 90 degrees either direction.
If it made sense, Saab would have done it.
I cringed. I don't know if you made that up or not, and the fact that I genuinely can't tell made me sad for this stupid timeline.
Apparently it fucking is. God I hate everything.
::: spoiler An X... New rimless cross spoke omnidirectional wheel
Musky naming something involving X.
Challenge: Impossible.
For ‘driving’ reasons.
Imagine that job though. It is your job to be a scapegoat for traffic collisions.
I can imagine very few people will be lining up for that job.
There is a lot of people willing to lick Musky's taint.
The "human driver" in question:
Hey man, I got 5 kids to feed
I thought it was a 2 seater with no controls. Lemme guess... It's a fleet of Model 3s.
The driver fits in the trunk.
Ah, so the Model S.
Why do you think that Teslas have a “frunk”? It’s for holding the driver, of course.
Didn't Tesla choose not to allow Tesla vehicle lessee's to not buy their cars so they can convert them to robo taxis and also software upgrade them so sell at a higher price in the certified pre-owned market?
That was the initial plan but it hit a number of roadblocks.
The release of the Robotaxi product was much delayed, and had Tesla kept to the "no buyout of leased cars" they would have been swimming in returned vehicles with nothing to do with them yet.
The policy was put in place at a time when the autonomous hardware was thought to be the "final" version (referred to as Hardware 3). It turns out the "final" version wasn't powerful enough, so a new final version was released (Hardware 4). So all the cars that were leased were not going to be useful as taxi cabs, so they offered those for sale to their leasers.
I must say, it's been a little nicer not having this dipshit in the headlines every single fucking day. I guess he's going to start saying things again and fuck with my peace of mind.
I think Musk should 100% trust his fucking piece of shit robotaxi tech and use it exclusively. Good chance it drives him off a bridge.
I'm planning to launch a human-only taxi service, but to cut costs the humans will be AI.
Remember his robots - ROFL
yeah, totally not to keep the robotaxis from being molotoved. although after what musk did, not sure the presence of drivers will stop people.
And only handpicked hardcore cult-members are invited for the "beta-phase", and are invited to share their experiences via Video and Photo for Stock Pumping
This seems like a complete waste of time for everyone involved.
Tech bros doing tech bro shit. Lord knows we didnt have taxis before.
This is exactly what happened with his stupid Hyperloop
Tesla's brand of self driving is unsafe, you say?
This is even worse than I expected. I expected another delay, or a autonomous taxi with a remote driver constantly monitoring at best. This is no better than a regular taxi.
So..... A regular taxi, then? 🤔🤭😂😂😂😂
No, this will be less convenient and more expensive. Like the tesla tunnel thing in Vegas: subway, but much worse.
SMH not even 700 ppl remote working in India like Amazon
Elon spent all this money on making a taxi that drives itself but needs a driver and only works some of the time.
Elon is a genius.....
so... uhh... what's the point?
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