Just remember: Tesla vehicles are surveillance machines, and the cops have access to facial recognition software, so I will not be surprised if whoever did this is caught.
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woop woop I guess?
When the cops ask if you saw who did it :
President Elon did it. He’s on an arson spree.
This is the Dems most potent reaction?
Ask a major Tesla stockholder if it’s potent.
Is it potent?
Am I a Tesla shareholder?
That was a test…
and you passed with flying colors.
are we not men??
D-E-V-O
Neither half of this sentence even makes sense. Why would you have any reasonable expectation of anything you said?
We don’t actually know who did it. If this is an act of resistance, it’s one of many escalations people might take.
Nice. Psyched for more. Bring Back Better!
it could even be faulty wiring. CT’s have exploded into flames before, too.
Faulty wiring, shit waterproofing, just kinda exploding for no particular reason. Frankly speaking all of these are entirely possible with Teslas in general let alone the cybercunk.
Bad OTA updates, too.
Also with trump saying it’s domestic terrorism… and also projecting all the crisis actors, i wouldn’t be particularly shocked to find musk told a cronie to do it
That’s really stretching the word innocent.
Am i blind? I don’t see “innocent” anywhere…
I am blind - my mind converted Honest to Innocent. My point still stands - it’s hardly an honest profession not at all like piracy.
Just for reference, while it has been edited, the comic is by Stan Kelly, The Onion’s resident cartoonist. Kelly is fictional, a satirical stereotype of a right-wing newspaper cartoonist. His signatures are over-labelling everything, gratuitous self-inserts, and framing the wealthy/other advantaged groups as morally upstanding patriots unfairly victimized by their inferiors. The latter is usually accompanied by them crying a single tear.
All that to say, in the context of a Kelly comic, “Honest Tesla Salesman” is definitely meant ironically.
Just a fun fact, the Tesla showrooms aren’t owned by a third party like a dealership, they’re owned by Tesla, so there’s no “screwing over a local business owner” here.
Ah yes, the bastions of ethics, third party dealership owners.
Upvoted for truth.
bad quality issues.
to the facial recognition; you need a library of past videos/photos to compare it to. You’re driver’s license is not enough on it’s own, and masks and such like, even ‘disruptive’ make up can render it useless.
Groucho glasses are very affordable.
Be careful, it is getting better. I’ve found my own face on the Internet with just a single (unobscured) image upload. And that included finding faces in a different orientation. Masks probably still defeat it, but it’s not as data intensive as it once was.
IR blasters, work also.
WHOOP WHOOP
Probably a faulty battery. Seems to be happening a lot lately. Sounds like Tesla should pull these off the market.
There is no way they are not cheering for everyone of these cars who goes up in flames. They are insured and it’s always one less that they have to fix but can’t.
Their rates go up, and the bank and underwriters will downgrade their credit rating if this keeps up
In positive news… I think the iridescence caused by the flame really makes that back panel look pretty. Overall an improvement on looks.
Imagine getting to experience the color change up close! It must be a beautiful final moment to watch as your shittily-made Swasticar changes colors while trapping you inside…
Iridescent metal coffins are underrated
Stainless exhaust gets this bluing effect from the heat. I think it looks gorgeous.
That’s also a really cool example of how much fluid flow is restricted by even small curves. The metal only got that hot on the curves, not where flow is not impeded.
Pretty sure the discoloration here is from welding, not the exhaust gasses. If the discoloration stemmed from exhaust heat, the welds would have be discolored as well.
Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams but a car fire can warp a cybertruck apparently
Well, you see, that’s because a material doesn’t need to be at melting point to lose its structural integrity.
Just to expand on this (entirely correct statement) for anyone curious about it, what specifically happened with the Twin Towers was this:
Each floor was made of a layer of concrete, resting on a steel frame. The frame was comprised of horizontal I-beams which were pinned to the outer walls at each end with L-brackets.
When the fire heated the beams, they softened ever so slightly. Just enough to make them sag a little under the weight. This, in turn, changed the angle at which the beams met the L-brackets, so now instead of all the force going straight down, some of the force was pulling the bracket away from the wall. The brackets, and the bolts that held them, weren’t designed for this kind of stress, so they failed. As soon as I’ve bracket failed, that increased the proportion of the load being carried by the brackets around it, so they failed too (this is called a cascade failure). Once this happened on one floor, all that concrete fell down, smashing through the floor below it, and so on, in an even more extreme example of cascade failure.
So yeah, jet fuel can’t melt steel beams, but it can expose design flaws.
I thought the “can’t melt steel beams” thing stemmed from a supposed puddle of molten steel they found in the wreckage? If cascade failures are what they’re on about, 9/11 truthers are even dumber than I thought :(
Didn’t Elon Musk do this by releasing a shitty product that keeps exploding left and right? When four explode at the same lot, you know you’ve got a safety issue on your hands.
Warm weather is just starting. It’s gonna be a fun summer!
Back in the early days of Tesla when they still had the only cool car they ever made, the roadster, they were so proud of their near fireproof battery with lots of smaller cells. I never heard about a Roadster fire, and the first few model Ss were the safest cars on the road. I guess Elon’s “fire everyone and save money” strategy took a few years to show through.
Remember he came in after they already existed, was just an investor that demanded he be retroactively called a founder. All their tech up to the CyberCuck were iterations on the original, (sans his corner-cutting you mentioned, which was also terrible).
The whole: savest car on the road is kind of a bs claim to begin with. They were very “safe” because they are so heavy and the battery is so low that it’s near impossible to flip over. You colt take an “unsafe” car and weld 200kg on the bottom of the car and boom, suddenly it doesn’t flip anymore.
Suzuki Samurai with skid plates when
his teslas skipped out on QC to save money.
And nothing of value was lost…
Oh no! Anyway…
I find that being incinerated has made the one depicted in the article considerably prettier. At least it has both curves and some color now.
