Elon Musk: Officially a fraud and piece of shit. Official or unofficial war criminal?

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29 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Has twitter stopped the "translate tweet" function? It's not coming up at all for me.

Stopped working for me as well.  They were probably paying some third party for that service and Elon ditched it during the latest round of cost-cutting.

Speaking of, a whole lot of talk about cutting costs at twitter, but I don't see much in the way of actually increasing revenue in significant amounts.  I don't mean this blue-check bullshit, and I don't mean trying to charge for formerly free API access for third-party clients (most of whom would rather end their projects than lose money paying).  I mean bringing the actual customers back in large numbers, as in the advertisers.

I am seeing a whole lot more racist and other shit on there, and my recommendations are absolutely shit, and the email notifications are for people I give no shits about.  He's truly fucked this thing up. 

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Elon is fucking living out the "magnets, how do they work?" meme, and he doesn't get the fucking irony.

He's a fucking idiot.  An absolute drooling moron.

Dunning-Kruger Effect in human form.

[Francisco 2.0 32,389]

2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Speaking of, a whole lot of talk about cutting costs at twitter, but I don't see much in the way of actually increasing revenue in significant amounts.  I don't mean this blue-check bullshit, and I don't mean trying to charge for formerly free API access for third-party clients (most of whom would rather end their projects than lose money paying).  I mean bringing the actual customers back in large numbers, as in the advertisers.

I am seeing a whole lot more racist and other shit on there, and my recommendations are absolutely shit, and the email notifications are for people I give no shits about.  He's truly fucked this thing up. 

 

I'm seeing a lot more advertisers of doomsday-prepper shit and a bunch of soldiers of fortune type stuff.  

If that's what is paying the bills now, it's not long before the gold and silver carnival barkers move in.  Maybe they already have and Elon's beautiful algorithms haven't targeted me with those kinds of ads yet.

Edited March 18, 2023 by Francisco 2.0

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34 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

I'm seeing a lot more advertisers of doomsday-prepper shit and a bunch of soldiers of fortune type stuff.  

If that's what is paying the bills now, it's not long before the gold and silver carnival barkers move in.  Maybe they already have and Elon's beautiful algorithms haven't targeted me with those kinds of ads yet.

That kind of advertising can make a single man who owns a much smaller conspiracy-related website millions of dollars and get him a house on Lake Travis (that he then has to sell in his divorce), but it's not going to cover the billions it costs for twitter.

[Neonmoon 38,129]

He did it. He finally did it. Oh wait 

 

[Bateshorn 9,927]

13 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Elon is fucking living out the "magnets, how do they work?" meme, and he doesn't get the fucking irony.

He's a fucking idiot.  An absolute drooling moron.

In all fairness: Magnets are magic…

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

14 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Elon is fucking living out the "magnets, how do they work?" meme, and he doesn't get the fucking irony.

He's a fucking idiot.  An absolute drooling moron.

Also in all fairness ^^ I read Brisket's sentence as "magats, how do they work..." and realized it is all still ironic and apt.

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1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:

In all fairness: Magnets are magic…

In a world of magnets and miracles...

[Fudge Nuggets 19,190]

5 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

In all fairness: Magnets are magic…

Michael Faraday would disagree, but he's been dead for over 150 years.

[Homercles 10,205]

On the model X door failures, every time I see one being opened I think of this:

 

[Neonmoon 38,129]

How can he be this dumb

 

[Captain Ron 12,876]

Because he thinks he the smartest guy in the room and has to show everyone. So he has to open his mouth. He can’t help himself. 

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1 hour ago, Captain Ron said:

Because he thinks he the smartest guy in the room and has to show everyone. So he has to open his mouth. He can’t help himself. 

And if he's so worried about bank runs, he should probably make sure that any social media platforms he may have some influence over aren't used by foreign (or domestic) organizations to spread disinformation that could lead to a bank run.

[Francisco 2.0 32,389]

Visionary, obviously.  Smarter than everyone in the room.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/19/elon-musk-tesla-driving/

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Long before he became “Chief Twit” of Twitter, Elon Musk had a different obsession: making Teslas drive themselves. The technology was expensive and, two years ago when the supply chain was falling apart, Musk became determined to bring down the cost.

He zeroed in on a target: the car radar sensors, which are designed to detect hazards at long ranges and prevent the vehicles from barreling into other cars in traffic. The sleek bodies of the cars already bristledwith eight cameras designed to view the road and spot hazards in each direction. That, Musk argued, should be enough.

 

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Some Tesla engineers were aghast, said former employees with knowledge of his reaction, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. They contacted a trusted former executive for advice on how to talk Musk out of it, in previously unreported pushback. Without radar, Teslas would be susceptible to basic perception errors if the cameras were obscured by raindrops or even bright sunlight, problems that could lead to crashes.

Musk was unconvinced and overruled his engineers. In May 2021 Tesla announced it was eliminating radar on new cars. Soon after, the company began disabling radar in cars already on the road. The result, according to interviews with nearly a dozen former employees and test drivers, safety officials and other experts, was an uptick in crashes, near misses and other embarrassing mistakes by Tesla vehicles suddenly deprived of a critical sensor.

 

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Musk has described the Tesla “Full Self-Driving” technology as “the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money and being worth basically zero,” but his dream of autonomous cars is hitting roadblocks.

In recent weeks, Tesla has recalled and suspended the rollout of the technology to eligible vehicles amid concerns that its cars could disobey the speed limit and blow through stop signs, according to federal officials. Customer complaints have been piling up, including a lawsuit filed in federal court last month claiming that Musk has overstated the technology’s capabilities. And regulators and government officials are scrutinizing Tesla’s system and its past claims as evidence of safety problems mounts, according to company filings.

 

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In interviews, former Tesla employees who worked on Tesla’s driver-assistance software attributed the company’s troubles to the rapid pace of development, cost-cutting measures like Musk’s decision to eliminate radar — which strayed from industry practice — and other problems unique to Tesla.

They said Musk’s erratic leadership style also played a role, forcing them to work at a breakneck pace to develop the technology and to push it out to the public before it was ready. Some said they are worried that, even today, the software is not safe to be used on public roads. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

“The system was only progressing very slowly internally” but “the public wanted a product in their hands,” said John Bernal, a former Tesla test operator who worked in its Autopilot department. He was fired in February 2022 when the company alleged improper use of the technology after he had posted videos of Full Self-Driving in action.

“Elon keeps tweeting, ‘Oh we’re almost there, we’re almost there,’” Bernal said. But “internally, we’re nowhere close, so now we have to work harder and harder and harder.” The team has also bled members in recent months, including senior executives.

Meanwhile, Musk pulled dozens of Tesla engineers to work with code at Twitter, the struggling social media platform Musk purchased with fanfare last fall, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, and documents reviewed by The Washington Post. Earlier this month, after Tesla failed to announce a big new product on investor day, the company’s stock sank 6 percent.

Musk has defended the company’s actions as long-term bets, with the prospect of unlocking tremendous value, and Tesla has said vehicles in Full Self-Driving crash at a rate at least five times less than vehicles driving normally. Musk and Tesla did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

But the story of Full Self-Driving offers a vivid example of how the world’s richest person has complicated one of his biggest bets through rash decision-making, a stubborn insistence on doing things differently, and unyielding confidence in a vision that has yet to be proven.

“No one believed me that working for Elon was the way it was until they saw how he operated Twitter,” Bernal said, calling Twitter “just the tip of the iceberg on how he operates Tesla.”

The rise of ‘Full Self-Driving’

In April 2019, at a showcase dubbed “Autonomy Investor Day,” Musk made perhaps his boldest prediction as Tesla’s chief executive. “By the middle of next year, we’ll have over a million Tesla cars on the road with full self-driving hardware,” Musk told a roomful of investors. The software updates automatically over the air, and Full Self-Driving would be so reliable, he said, the driver “could go to sleep.”

Investors were sold. The following year, Tesla’s stock price soared, making it the most valuable automaker and helping Musk become the world’s richest person. Full Self-Driving followed Autopilot, which was launched in 2014 and went on to allow cars to navigate highways, from steering and changing lanes to adjusting speed. Full Self-Driving aimed to bring those capabilities to city and residential streets, a far more difficult task.

The cars rely on a combination of hardware and software to do so. Eight cameras capture real-time footage of activity surrounding the car, allowing the car to asses hazards like pedestrians or bicyclists and maneuver accordingly.

To deliver on his promise, Musk assembled a star team of engineers willing to work long hours and problem solve deep into the night. Musk would test the latest software on his own car, then he and other executives would compile “fix-it” requests for their engineers.

Those patchwork fixes gave the illusion of relentless progress but masked the lack of a coherent development strategy, former employees said. While competitors such as Alphabet-owned Waymo adopted strict testing protocols that limited where self-driving software could operate, Tesla eventually pushed Full Self-Driving out to 360,000 owners — who paid up to $15,000 to be eligible for the features — and let them activate it at their own discretion.

Tesla’s philosophy is simple: The more data (in this case driving) the artificial intelligence guiding the car is exposed to, the faster it learns. But that crude model also means there is a lighter safety net. Tesla has chosen to effectively allow the software to learn on its own, developing sensibilities akin to a brain via technology dubbed “neural nets” with fewer rules, the former employees said. While this has the potential to speed the process, it boils down to essentially a trial and error method of training.

Rivals at Waymo and Apple take a different approach to autonomy, by setting rules and addressing any breaches if those constraints are violated, according to Silicon Valley insiders with knowledge of company practices, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Companies developing self-driving also typically use sophisticated lidar and radar systems which help the software map out their surroundings in detail.

Waymo spokesperson Julia Ilina said there are evident differences between the companies’ approaches, pointing to Waymo’s goal of full autonomy and emphasis on machine learning. Apple declined to comment for this story.

Tesla’s method has at times proven problematic. Around two years ago, a popular YouTuber captured footage of the software struggling to navigate San Francisco’s famously winding Lombard Street in a video that garnered tens of thousands of views. So Tesla engineers built invisible barriers into the software — akin to bumpers in a bowling alley — to help the cars stay on the road, Bernal said. Subsequent YouTube videos showed them operating smoothly.

That gave Bernal pause. As an internal tester who drove that stretch of road as part of his job, it was clear that it was far from the typical experience on public streets elsewhere.

Radar originally played a major role in the design of the Tesla vehicles and software, supplementing the cameras by offering a reality check of what was around, particularly if vision might be obscured. Tesla also used ultrasonic sensors, shorter-range devices that detect obstructions within inches of the car. (The company announced last year it was eliminating those as well.)

Even with radar, Teslas were less sophisticated than the lidar and radar-equipped cars of competitors.

“One of the key advantages of lidar is that it will never fail to see a train or truck, even if it doesn’t know what it is,” said Brad Templeton, a longtime self-driving car developer and consultant who worked on Google’s self-driving car. “It knows there is an object in front and the vehicle can stop without knowing more than that.”

Cameras need to understand what they see to be effective, relying on Tesla workers who label images the vehicles record, including things like stop signs and trains, to help the software understand how to react.

Toward the end of 2020, Autopilot employees turned on their computers to find in-house workplace monitoring software installed, former employees said. It monitored keystrokes and mouse clicks, and kept track of their image labeling. If the mouse did not move for a period of time, a timer started — and employees could be reprimanded, up to being fired, for periods of inactivity, the former employees said.

After a group pushing to unionize Tesla’s Buffalo factory raised concerns about its workplace monitoring last month, Tesla responded in a blog post. “The reason there is time monitoring for image labeling is to improve the ease of use of our labeling software,” it said, adding “its purpose is to calculate how long it takes to label an image.”

Musk had championed the “vision-only” approach as simpler, cheaper and more intuitive. “The road system is designed for cameras (eyes) & neural nets (brains),” he tweeted in February 2022.

Some of the people who spoke with The Post said that approach has introduced risks. “I just knew that putting that software out in the streets would not be safe,” said a former Tesla Autopilot engineer who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. “You can’t predict what the car’s going to do.”

A rise in vehicle crashes

After Tesla announced it was removing radar in May 2021, the problems were almost immediately noticeable, the former employees said. That period coincided with the expansion of the Full Self-Driving testing program from thousands to tens of thousands of drivers. Suddenly, cars were allegedly stopping for imaginary hazards, misinterpreting street signs, and failing to detect obstacles such as emergency vehicles, according to complaints filed with regulators.

Some of the people who spoke with The Post attributed Tesla’s sudden uptick in “phantom braking” reports — where the cars aggressively slow down from high speeds — to the lack of radar. The Post analyzed data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to show incidences surged last year, prompting a federal regulatory investigation.

The data showed reports of “phantom braking” rose to 107 complaints over three months, compared to only 34 in the preceding 22 months. After The Post highlighted the problem in a news report, NHTSA received about 250 complaints of the issue in a two-week period. The agency opened an investigation after, it said, it received 354 complaints of the problem spanning a period of nine months.

Months earlier, NHTSA had opened an investigation into Autopilot over roughly a dozen reports of Teslas crashing into parked emergency vehicles. The latest example came to light this month as the agency confirmed it was investigating a February fatal crash involving a Tesla and a firetruck. Experts say radar has served as a way to double check what the cameras, which are susceptible to being washed out by bright light, are seeing.

“It’s not the sole reason they’re having [trouble] but it’s big a part of it,” said Missy Cummings, a former senior safety adviser for NHTSA, who has criticized the company’s approach and recused herself on matters related to Tesla. “The radar helped detect objects in the forward field. [For] computer vision which is rife with errors, it serves as a sensor fusion way to check if there is a problem.”

Musk, as the chief tester, also asked for frequent bug fixes to the software, requiring engineers to go in and adjust code. “Nobody comes up with a good idea while being chased by a tiger,” a former senior executive recalled an engineer on the project telling him.

Musk’s resistance to suggestions led to a culture of deference, former employees said. Tesla fired employees who pushed back on his approach. The company was also pushing out so many updates to its software that in late 2021, NHTSA publicly admonished Tesla for issuing fixes without a formal recall notice.

Last year, Musk decided to buy Twitter, something that became a distraction for the Tesla chief executive, former employees of both companies said. After taking the helm in October, he diverted dozens of engineers — including on Autopilot and Full Self-Driving — to work there with him, further setting back Tesla, according to former employees and documents reviewed by The Post. Software updates that were otherwise issued every two weeks were suddenly spaced out over periods of months, as Tesla worked through bugs and chased more ambitious targets.

Some lament Musk’s involvement at Twitter, saying he needs to refocus on Tesla to finish what he started. Ross Gerber, a Tesla investor who is running for a seat on the company’s board over concerns about its perceived inaction on Musk’s dueling role as head of Twitter, said Full Self-Driving heralds a bright future for Tesla.

“We love Elon. He’s the innovator of our time,” he said. “All we want to see is him working full time back at Tesla again.”

An uncertain future

Tesla engineers have been burning out, quitting and looking for opportunities elsewhere. Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s director of artificial intelligence, took a months-long sabbatical last year before leaving Tesla and taking a position this year at OpenAI, the company behind language-modeling software ChatGPT.

“Since Andrej was writing all the code by himself, naturally, things have come to a grinding halt,” Musk said on an earnings call last year, noting he was speaking in jest.

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s director of Autopilot, has taken on work at Musk’s other company, Twitter, according to employees and documents reviewed by The Post.

One of the former employees said that he left for Waymo. “They weren’t really wondering if their car’s going to run the stop sign,” the engineer said. “They’re just focusing on making the whole thing achievable in the long term, as opposed to hurrying it up.”

The Justice Department has requested documents related to Full Self-Driving as part of an ongoing probe, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into Musk’s role in pushing Tesla’s self-driving claims, part of a larger investigation, according to Bloomberg News.

The lawsuit filed in February alleges that Tesla made “false and misleading” statements, arguing Tesla “significantly overstated” the safety and performance of Autopilot and Full Self-Driving.

That is in addition to NHTSA’s two probes into Autopilot, one of which is the look at emergency vehicles. That investigation has been upgraded to a more advanced stage: an engineering analysis. The other, into “phantom braking” reports, is ongoing.

At an investor showcase this month, Musk appeared alongside more than a dozen Tesla employees onstage, touting the company’s broad array of expertise. But the company failed to offer any major developments on Full Self-Driving, despite a segment on the technology.

And some of Musk’s most loyal customers have given up hope that his initial promise will come true. Charles Cook, a commercial pilot and engineer from Jacksonville, Fla., owns a Tesla Model Y that he frequently drives in Full Self-Driving mode.

While he is amazed at what the technology can do, he is surprised by both the slow pace of progress and the status of Musk’s promises. “Someone might have purchased Full Self-Driving thinking they were going to have a robotaxi by now and spent their hard earned money on that,” he said.

“Now his engineers may have laughed at that” but “a customer may have spent $15,000 thinking they’re going to have it next year.” Those customers, he said, lost out.

“I do not believe you can remove the driver on this hardware suite, ever,” he said.

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

18 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

I found the article a good read, thank you for posting it.

 

I also find it an interesting juxtaposition to the text displayed on Tesla's own website advertising their auto insurance:

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Many providers base your premium on information that has little to do with your driving. ...

Ummmm....

[Aqua Buddha 14,595]

On 3/17/2023 at 5:48 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Didn't he try something similar at Pay Pal?  Tried arguing to rebuild everything from scratch because he didn't understand the existing code or something?

[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

46 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Didn't he try something similar at Pay Pal?  Tried arguing to rebuild everything from scratch because he didn't understand the existing code or something?

I don't know what all he did at Pay Pal, but his verbiage in the tweet sounds suspiciously like that ol' on the outside looking in you can't understand it, and on the inside looking out you can't explain it.....guess he feels at home in Texas, he just should've gone further east.

[Francisco 2.0 32,389]

2 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Didn't he try something similar at Pay Pal?  Tried arguing to rebuild everything from scratch because he didn't understand the existing code or something?

 

 

 

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start

 

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But biggest of all was that Musk had a few major obsessions, and regardless of how clear it was they weren’t working, he not only couldn’t let go of them, but, just like today, would not tolerate dissent on those matters. First was the X.com branding. Jackson explains that despite customer research showing users liked PayPal but had negative feelings toward X.com, Musk pushed forward with trying to get rid of the PayPal name. He also wouldn’t abandon his financial services dream, even though it wasn’t working. Then there was the technical question: PayPal used Linux, while X.com was on Microsoft. To merge the services, Musk proposed a “V2” plan where PayPal would be completely rewritten and all development would be paused in the process. For months, the teams worked on the rewrite, but it kept missing deadlines while large sums of money were being lost to fraud. Finally, in the face of these issues, employees at the company organized to oust Musk and bring Thiel back as CEO. Thiel quickly scrapped the V2 rewrite, began to wind down X.com’s financial services (especially after finding X.com full of “bogus accounts and bad debt,” according to Jackson), and focused the branding on PayPal. Musk was ousted because he couldn’t take advice, or realize when his ideas weren’t working.

 

 

 

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In the minds of many (most?) people:

PayPal = some kind of money service.

X.com = some kind of adult website.

Musk could never understand that.

[Jhawkmvp 1,489]

On 3/18/2023 at 7:56 AM, atomheartbevo said:

Stopped working for me as well.  They were probably paying some third party for that service and Elon ditched it during the latest round of cost-cutting.

Speaking of, a whole lot of talk about cutting costs at twitter, but I don't see much in the way of actually increasing revenue in significant amounts.  I don't mean this blue-check bullshit, and I don't mean trying to charge for formerly free API access for third-party clients (most of whom would rather end their projects than lose money paying).  I mean bringing the actual customers back in large numbers, as in the advertisers.

I am seeing a whole lot more racist and other shit on there, and my recommendations are absolutely shit, and the email notifications are for people I give no shits about.  He's truly fucked this thing up. 

Dunning-Kruger Effect in human form.

The first rule of Dunning-Kruger club, is you do not know you are in Dunning-Kruger club.

[NoName 16,351]

of course he thinks this is funny.

also he can't stay away from Halli, even though i am sure his lawyers (all of them) said ignore him entirely and act like he doesn't exist.

and he has this to say about verified vs unverified accounts

all it takes to get "verified" is $7 and a stolen CC.

edit: woah, didn't expect to see James May in the replies making valid points.

 

Edited March 20, 2023 by NoName

[Captain Ron 12,876]

Uh, didn't he buy twitter to be a digital town hall? Should that mean free is priority over pay to play?

[NoName 16,351]

6 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

Uh, didn't he buy twitter to be a digital town hall? Should that mean free is priority over pay to play?

how's this - if he wants it to be a digital town hall, he could charge way less than $84 / year and have a process in place to verify people.

in case people forget the only reason it ended up at $7 is because he wanted $20 and Steven King said "$20 a month to keep my blue check? Fuck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron."

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12,301]

What happened to the ad rev share for creators plan?

[Pescado_Rojo 19,416]

17 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

What happened to the ad rev share for creators plan?

That will part of the 2.0 code stack

[wildcat09 29,353]

57 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

Uh, didn't he buy twitter to be a digital town hall? Should that mean free is priority over pay to play?

All speech is free, but paid speech is freer than other speech.

[Chopper 17,230]

On 3/17/2023 at 4:24 PM, Schulz2.0 said:

Has twitter stopped the "translate tweet" function? It's not coming up at all for me.

As someone with no twitter account, there were two days I noticed that I got served ads last week (1st time ever). And then they totally disappeared again. Just like translate option seems to have also disappeared.

On 3/19/2023 at 8:36 AM, Mrs Whiggins said:

I found the article a good read, thank you for posting it.

 

I also find it an interesting juxtaposition to the text displayed on Tesla's own website advertising their auto insurance:

Ummmm....

The link below leads to a long reuters article published today about how minor collisions in an EV can lead to the entire vehicle being junked because there's often no way to pull data from the battery to ensure it's operating correctly, nor to pull out the battery and inspect for scratches. Apparently Tesla is the worst offender because they've made batteries a structural part of the vehicle. But they're not the only offender. Insurance rates on EVs are on average higher than non-EVs.  https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/scratched-ev-battery-your-insurer-may-have-to-junk-the-whole-car/ar-AA18PU3J

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While some automakers like Ford Motor Co and General Motors Co said they have made battery packs easier to repair, Tesla Inc has taken the opposite tack with its Texas-built Model Y, whose new structural battery pack has been described by experts as having "zero repairability."

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Unless Tesla and other carmakers produce more easily repairable battery packs and provide third-party access to battery cell data, already-high insurance premiums will keep rising as EV sales grow and more low-mileage cars get scrapped after collisions, insurers and industry experts said.

"The number of cases is going to increase, so the handling of batteries is a crucial point," said Christoph Lauterwasser, managing director of the Allianz Center for Technology, a research institute owned by Allianz.

Lauterwasser noted EV battery production emits far more CO2 than fossil-fuel models, meaning EVs must be driven for thousands of miles before they offset those extra emissions.

"If you throw away the vehicle at an early stage, you've lost pretty much all advantage in terms of CO2 emissions," he said.

Most carmakers said their battery packs are repairable, though few seem willing to share access to battery data. Insurers, leasing companies and car repair shops are already fighting with carmakers in the EU over access to lucrative connected-car data.

 

almost forgot

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Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

 

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[Mrs Whiggins 13,050]

At Tesla Insurance our motto regarding your claim is: we're looking into it!

[Celery Man 20,939]

21 hours ago, Jhawkmvp said:

The first rule of Dunning-Kruger club, is you do not know you are in Dunning-Kruger club.

Akshually we all suffer from dunning-Kruger and it is absolutely something you can and should pay attention to. It’s good to understand when you’re in that danger zone of knowing enough to feel confident without actually knowing all that much.

[Brisketexan 105,110]

Akshually we all suffer from dunning-Kruger and it is absolutely something you can and should pay attention to. It’s good to understand when you’re in that danger zone of knowing enough to feel confident without actually knowing all that much.

Short version: greatest evaluation I ever got was from my common-sense S Texas rancher grandfather: “ole Brisket’s gonna do ok - he’s smart enough to know how dumb he is.”
I don’t have a perfect record on that, but goddamn, invite dissent and actually listen to it. It’s not hard.

[956 Worldwide 34,707]

Truly a visionary on a scale the world rarely sees. 
 

 

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Truly a visionary on a scale the world rarely sees. 

Indeed, this is the kind of confident, steadfast, mature leadership that advertisers want to see before spending millions on twitter.

[Captain Ron 12,876]

It's like a 4th grader is in charge of the place

How the fuck does someone this stupid luck into so much money?

 

At this point anyone that writes an article about twitter and emails for comment they should all put

"We contacted Twitter for comment, their response was a poop emoji."

[Clintonaldo 2,574]

4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Indeed, this is the kind of confident, steadfast, mature leadership that advertisers want to see before spending millions on twitter.

I really want to drop $70,000 on a car with this leadership.

[Captain Ron 12,876]

46 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

I really want to drop $70,000 on a car with this leadership.

Worth repeating

[Celery Man 20,939]

3 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

It's like a 4th grader is in charge of the place

How the fuck does someone this stupid luck into so much money?

 

At this point anyone that writes an article about twitter and emails for comment they should all put

"We contacted Twitter for comment, their response was a poop emoji."

for many people, success is a gateway to becoming a fucking idiot

[Captain Ron 12,876]

3 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

At this point anyone that writes an article about twitter and emails for comment they should all put

"We contacted Twitter for comment, their response was a poop emoji."

...

[atomheartbevo 89,656]

I still get email notifications from my work-related accounts, and more and more porn tweets are creeping in even though I don’t look at porn on twitter, and I get Elon’s tweets as well even though I blocked him on all accounts.  Blocking the porn accounts leads to….you guessed it….more notifications from the same type of accounts.  He really fucked it up.  

[Brisketexan 105,110]

8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Blocking the porn accounts leads to….you guessed it….more notifications from the same type of accounts.

Wait.....MORE porn is a bad thing?  I mean, I thought I understood you before, but now....I don't even know you.

[Wally Fairway 5,544]

11 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 even though I don’t look at porn on twitter

[Brisketexan 105,110]

1 minute ago, Wally Fairway said:

[atomheartbevo 89,656]

15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Wait.....MORE porn is a bad thing?  I mean, I thought I understood you before, but now....I don't even know you.

11 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

Looking at porn on twitter is a waste of time, and the quality on there is shitty.  There are much better ways.  And I wouldn’t do it on the computer I do work-related stuff on, both because of NowThis accidents, but also I want to keep my notifications relevant and not have to wade through non-essential stuff.  

If you want to look at porn on a mobile device, find a few hundred images of the stuff you like and save it to encrypted notes named stuff like “work confidential smith contract mar 23”. You can use Apple Notes, Evernote, etc.  or find an actual website and remember it and use Firefox Focus as your mobile browser.  

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1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

Looking at porn on twitter is a waste of time, and the quality on there is shitty.  There are much better ways.  And I wouldn’t do it on the computer I do work-related stuff on, both because of NowThis accidents, but also I want to keep my notifications relevant and not have to wade through non-essential stuff.  

If you want to look at porn on a mobile device, find a few hundred images of the stuff you like and save it to encrypted notes named stuff like “work confidential smith contract mar 23”. You can use Apple Notes, Evernote, etc.  or find an actual website and remember it and use Firefox Focus as your mobile browser.  

 {Mark Cuban taking notes gif inserted here - but I didn't because I'm too lazy}

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On 3/21/2023 at 7:28 PM, Captain Ron said:

...

Not good enough. Needs to be in the body of the article.  “When asked if the company had noted an increase in anti-Semitic hate speech and Holocaust denial, Twitter’s public relations team replied  simply ‘💩’.” 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12,301]

14 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

If you want to look at porn on a mobile device, find a few hundred images of the stuff you like

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16 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I still get email notifications from my work-related accounts, and more and more porn tweets are creeping in even though I don’t look at porn on twitter, and I get Elon’s tweets as well even though I blocked him on all accounts.  Blocking the porn accounts leads to….you guessed it….more notifications from the same type of accounts.  He really fucked it up.  

i opened it up during the Texas basketball game and got a ton of ads for "we will ship you THC gummies" and other mailing weed related ads. it's a joke.

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TikTok is getting lit up in their hearing today and at this point, I would be betting on it getting banned at some point here soon...

 

Twitter owning still Vine now has more and more potential and funny enough would most likely make twitter instantly profitable and well beyond the revenue projections from that of Twitter 1.0. 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12,301]

TikTok getting banned is going to send millions of Americans into a spiraling depression.

This simulation fucking sucks.

[Captain Ron 12,876]

 

[Clintonaldo 2,574]

It was a few weeks ago but can someone send the link again talking about how Tesla’s are falling behind now and how the self driving shit will never work the way they do it.

 

I am arguing with a fanboi. 

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4 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

TikTok getting banned is going to send millions of Americans into a spiraling depression.

This simulation fucking sucks.