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KayLeadfoot

@ KayLeadfoot @fedia.io

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  • Tesla Will Now Let You Finance Your EV Repairs… With Interest Rates as High as 36% APR

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  • what a thoroughly benighted concept

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    Tesla’s Robotaxi Can’t Drive in the Rain, and Dumps Passengers If the Weather Looks Risky.

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  • They currently charge a flat rate of $4.20 per ride :|

    Not joking. Is real. Will be replaced by a real number, they'll probably ease their way up to Uber pricing to reinforce that they are the "cheap" option, and then jack up the price (just like Uber did)

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    Tesla’s Robotaxi Can’t Drive in the Rain, and Dumps Passengers If the Weather Looks Risky.

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  • (No kidding - Bezos seems to ruin the other things he touches, like Blue Origin and The WaPo, but Zoox is actually making great progress! Probably because Beez isn't a car guy, he's a yacht guy I guess.)

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  • Literally every single Robotaxi ride has some asshole babbling throughout, glazing Elon Musk as the taxi is bouncing off curbs or dumping them when it starts raining.

    The PR play from Tesla here is really, really obnoxious.

    The worst part? It's working. Mainstream media is reporting that early rider reactions are enthusiastic, without mentioning that early riders are exclusively Tesla fandom podcasters.

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  • Oh GAWD now I can't unsee it

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  • Well it had a chance of finishing its education, before it got Musked while getting off the school bus

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  • The kid mannequin doesn't do much thinking anymore, RIP <3

  • Robotaxi Drives Double the Speed Limit, Hits Speed Bumps at Full Speed… Tesla Influencers Describe It as “Excellent.”

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  • It's Twitter, because otherwise the language makes no damn sense.

    What do you do on Twitter? You tweet your thoughts, as individual tweets.

    Like, I don't call it X, because the branding has no internal logic, I don't know the words for how to refer to things on X.

    Like, what would I do on X? I would X my thoughts as individual Xes? Axises? God, can't say Axis on Twitter, you'll get FAR too many neonazis liking your Axises. And if I want to close the window for X? I'll click on the X in the top right hand corner of X -- fuck, it's so confusing!

    What the fuck -- they took the most recognizable short-form blogging language on earth, branding so ubiquitous that everyone intuitively understood it and used it reflexively, and rebranded it into a pile of internally inconsistent shit.

  • Tesla Robotaxi Drops Off Passengers in Middle of Intersection… Handpicked Riders Say the “Performance Was Great”

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  • can't disagree with any of that

  • Tesla Robotaxi Drops Off Passengers in Middle of Intersection… Handpicked Riders Say the “Performance Was Great”

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  • oh right, THAT.

    I hope you like wherever it stops you, because, like, there's nobody in the driver's seat to fix it if the software fucks it up and parks you in the center of a highspeed road or on train tracks or whatever.

  • Tesla Robotaxi Drops Off Passengers in Middle of Intersection… Handpicked Riders Say the “Performance Was Great”

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  • Tesla Robotaxi Drops Off Passengers in Middle of Intersection… Handpicked Riders Say the “Performance Was Great”

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  • A passenger in the drivers seat could easily kill everyone by bumping the steer wheel (and reverting control back to... themself!) or by resting their foot inadvertently on the pedals.

    You're right, it's purely optics, a stock pump play. The system would be safer with the Tesla employee behind the wheel, but these techbro influencer videos would be less impressive that way.

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    Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.

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  • First iteration appear to be Tesla Model Ys. No word on additional sensors, so I am guessing the answer is no.

  • Ted Cruz begs Americans stop being so nasty to Elon Musk

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  • "World's richest man needs richer :c "

  • Tesla Owners are Installing DIY Rip Cords to Avoid Being Trapped in Their Vehicles in Case of Fire

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  • OH NO I LOLLED

  • Tesla Owners are Installing DIY Rip Cords to Avoid Being Trapped in Their Vehicles in Case of Fire

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  • Can you share a screen shot from the video of the back seat lever you're describing?

    I'm not seeing it. And I wrote the article, so I'm pretty sure I would have :j

  • Tesla Owners are Installing DIY Rip Cords to Avoid Being Trapped in Their Vehicles in Case of Fire

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  • Tesla Owners are Installing DIY Rip Cords to Avoid Being Trapped in Their Vehicles in Case of Fire

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  • Reading that coverage was fucking heartbreaking. Pointless, stupid, preventable.

    And you know what? The rescuer kid and the rescued kid are both going to be haunted by that forever.

  • Tesla Owners are Installing DIY Rip Cords to Avoid Being Trapped in Their Vehicles in Case of Fire

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  • I did not realize how fucking stupid the gear selector was. I'm even angrier than when I started, and I started pretty angry.

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    KayLeadfoot @fedia.io

    4 Cybertrucks on Fire in a Seattle Holding Lot… Investigators Uncertain if Fires Caused by Arson or Spontaneous Battery Fire

    fuelarc.com /cars/4-cybertrucks-on-fire-in-a-seattle-holding-lot/
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    Tesla Claimed 8,669 Canadian EV Rebates as the Program Ran Out of Funds… That’s 1.5 Sales Per Minute

    fuelarc.com /hot-takes/tesla-dealerships-claimed-8669-canadian-ev-rebates-in-3-days-thats-1-5-sales-per-minute/
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    It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto

    fuelarc.com /evs/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto/
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    Updated: CyberTruck "Slices Deer in Half"... Elon claims that it is safer for pedestrians.

    fuelarc.com /evs/cybertruck-slices-deer-in-half-at-highway-speed-but-what-about-pedestrians/