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Sucks for people who have Teslas and now don't want them. But this is just financial on the part of the dealers. If prices are plummeting then why would they take on a car no one else wants?

Supervised self-driving feature

We could have had decent public transportation...

Did a road trip in a friend's Model 3 with FSD and it is significantly more stressful than my VW or my wife's Acura driver assist features. It made a staggering number of minor mistakes including hallucinating pedestrians for every semi that was more than a mile ahead. It would slam on the brakes when this happened so you had to watch it like a hawk for every hill crest. The other really nasty one was sudden, violent lane changes. Especially if you were in the left lane with someone behind you.

I have gotten to the point where I wonder at people who say they love FSD. My experiences with it are so overwhelmingly negative that I have to assume there is something different about the roads I drive on compared to what it is trained on.

In my experience assisted driving helps me avoid fatigue on very long drives. It feels like I can focus where other cars are much more because I'm not spending brain power focusing on staying in my lane and keeping the correct speed.

So I have a Ford so it's not quite the same, but broadly the hands free and the lane centering will do only pretty boring stuff. So on a freeway even with hands free I keep my hands on in the wheel (don't quite trust it, and my hands need to be somewhere anyway), but my arms are not tense as often.

With more risky intersections, it's pretty much like driving without but still my hands are controlling against pretty much the direction the road instead of having to correct against the current direction of the car.

My first few cars the cruise control was rarely useful. Then I had adaptive cruise control which made things nicer. Now my arms are not in tension as much, which is nicer yet.

I don't know about actually trusting the system when dealing with cross streets and signal lights, but the most tedious parts of driving are far less constantly taxing

I very much love FSD. You can chill while just monitoring everything around you, making sure nothing goes wrong. You can't check out, obviously, but it is pretty nice.

Unfortunately, I canceled mine because I'm not giving any more money to Elon. 😒

almost like money is just a fake bullshit excuse, and hasn't had more than a thin cracked patina of 'tracking who created value' since at LEAST fractional reserve banking, if ever.

I wish that would happen, but he'll get a bail out from Trump.

Your tax dollars at work!

almost like laws are just made up excuses, and the points don't matter.

it's not kind to hang nazis either. it's cool and necessary, though.

everything but the cybertruck i can square why someone would still drive one. not everyone can afford to sell a car for less than it is worth as a car to not be seen it, or to pass up an undervalued car to move their kids around. but the cybertruck lacks all plausible deniability. by the time the orders were delivering, it was obvious who elon musk was, and that there were other better options available from competitors. it's also just fuckin' useless. like. it just absolutely sucks at everything a vehicle has to do, let alone a truck

Meh.

We've known elon was a shitbird for years. The case where he accused a straight up hero British Diver of being a pedophile for rescuing 12 children without using a musk branded product was 2018. And the sex pest shit has been pretty consistent since. And I will always argue that tesla emphasizing battery size so much actively hurt EV adoption throughout the country (you don't need a giant battery. You just need to realize that you were going to stop for lunch at some point anyway).

But also? The people buying teslas, generally, weren't people living paycheck to paycheck. They were status symbols for tech workers an so forth. Their asses can do a trade in or, at the absolute least, put on a bumper sticker to say they hate him too.

So no. I am not going to lose any sleep over people needing to make insurance claims because they drive around in a car that is branded around a nazi who is destroying the fucking country and destabilizing the world.

It lost about $100 per share since December. It’s still overpriced and still falling.

These things take time

I disagree about the feasibility, if people wanted to sell their car, they could do it and deal with the discomfort. There's plenty of cheap vehicles out there.

People dont care enough about it to deal with the discomfort. I would say that there is presumably a threshold of bad shit muskrat could do, beyond which most people would be so disgusted that they would sell their vehicle for a loss and spend that on a "lesser" vehicle.

Even if its a gas powered used minivan or it means a car note for another 6 years, they'll find a way if they care enough.

I think its not that it isn't feasible, it's that they are not past the threshold where they dont want to be seen giving money to an awful persons business. Theyre still at the point where driving an EV because they just paid to have a charger installed is more important to them.

And that is fine, it makes sense. But I do not see it as a forced hand like youre describing and I personally dont think its a good enough excuse.

So in practical terms, for anyone interested, anyone driving a Cyber Truck, or a Model Y or Model 3 refresh are fair game. Put simply, if the headlight goes all the way across the front, let 'er rip. If it has regular looking headlights, hold your tongue.