"I have 40-plus years left on this planet Earth. I don't want to live like that. I don't think any of us do. I think it's more about how do you want to wake up every day and tell your kids what you did in this time period." Found this deeply moving from @bencollins.bsky.social 🥹

Finally, Tesla Trucks have been put to good use...

Bravo, Mullissa Willett! Do not invest money in a car company that doesn’t wanna make cars. Or one with the business plan “We’ll make androids that will do… stuff. Like take care of and teach your children!”

Amazing job! Wish us luck closing down the showroom here in Madison, WI. @carb-action.bsky.social

Love to see it!

It only took several horrible deaths, a major Bloomberg article, and safety investigations by both the NHTSA and China. Truly a culture that prioritizes safety.

A win for safety! Tesla is now designing on new door handles that don’t leave parents unable to reach their children or trap car crash victims inside burning wrecks. For example, every car door handle ever designed before their “futuristic” one.

If Tesla hasn’t figured out train crossings, surely no one else has… what’s that? “Waymo vehicles have been regularly crossing heavy rail lines…since 2023. NBC News didn’t find examples of customers complaining that Waymo vehicles nearly crashed into gates or ignored flashing lights.”

So I knew Tesla “FSD” and “Robotaxi” had trouble spotting railroad crossings with oncoming trains. Apparently they sometimes have trouble perceiving *actual trains in front of them* as well. If only there were some safety sensor that could detect objects… 🤔 #Radar #LiDAR #Tesla #VisionOnly

Chilling: A reoccurring point of concern in the Dane County Sheriff investigation was why the five occupants of the vehicle were unable to escape. “It appeared as though they were trying to get out as four of the five bodies were found in the front seat of the vehicle.” #TeslaDoorHandles

🧵 1/ What is this photograph? It's a custom-made mask fitted for a software engineer in northern Virginia who suffered third-degree burns on her face when the Tesla Model Y she was in crashed and caught on fire. A heroic crowd of bystanders could not open the doors

My fear is that Tesla *will* allow unsupervised use of a clearly defective product (as long as they can cap or discharge liability). They did *very little* to make sure drivers were supervising previously instead of: napping in the back seat, playing video games, etc.

*Another* recall from Tesla? Engineers should not be taking quality control lessons from web software devs. You can’t just release beta and push out a patch later when it might catch on fire.

The awful truth is that the left knows it will be targeted by and lose activists and leaders to political violence. Our peaceful protests are attacked by shootings and vehicle attacks from extremists (not to mention the chemical attacks and “less lethal” projectiles fired by the police or guard).

@carb-action.bsky.social Still protesting *every single Saturday* at the Madison, WI Tesla Showroom! In summer heat, in thunderstorms with a scattering of hail, every potential buyer gets a reminder of the baggage that comes with owning a Tesla.

Convo with a Musk fanboy at our Takedown Tesla picket: “Musk isn’t racist. I mean, he hasn’t called for killing all black and brown people.” Apparently White Supremacy isn’t “racist” unless you *openly* advocate for genocide of most of the world. #TeslaTakedown

FSD makes driving so exciting! It almost always works, but you never know when it’s going to: - cross into oncoming traffic! - slam on the brakes at 70+mph for a shadow! - run a stop sign or red light! - ram a closed train crossing with an oncoming train! FSD: Any drive could be your last

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This right here. Tesla would be a more successful car company under a different CEO, but then it would be valued on how many cars it sold. That would be a *disaster* for Tesla’s stock, which is currently valued 4x Toyota (the world’s largest car manufacturer).

Not a problem, they just changed the law to make shareholder lawsuits much more difficult! That’s why Elon packed up his toys and reincorporated in Texas.

“Able to deliver”? Is she driving a Roadster 2.0 yet?

I had a convo about LiDAR with a Musk fanboy that went like this: Fan: It’s about safety. Vision-only is safer. Me: Why would it be *less* safe to be able to detect how far away objects are? Fan: It’s about cost. LiDAR is *super* expensive. Me: *shows cost* Fan: …Musk says it’s not needed

Exactly. His insistence on using just cameras for the system instead of ladar, the industry standard, has actually set tesla back years in the race for autonomous vehicles. His “rollout” in Austin was a joke, at best… and realistically, public endangerment.

I for one am glad Tesla finally understands how important it is not to distract drivers from their phones. /s

That feeling of financial security when your pension has invested $1/2 BILLION in a car company that doesn’t wanna make cars.

So you're saying the same group of Elon's toadies who just offered him a trillion bucks after his political activity did "unprecedented brand damage" to the company won't try to restrict his future political activities? Who could have predicted 🙄 #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

@teslatakedown.com Can you clarify if you want people to boycott all providers on T-Mobile’s network at this time, or just T-Mobile? Also, ASAP or on Nov 15th?

We tried to deliver our petition with more than 20k signatures, including 5k customers, to T-Mobile. They called the cops. #tmobile doesn't care about customers. They're in bed with Trump and Musk. It's time to #BoycottTmobile #teslatakedown @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social join us: tmobileboycott.org

Sorry, not a “driver”, a “standby operator on-site”. 🙄 “Over time, as the system matures, the human element will gradually cease to exist.” As if Lyft drivers are going to diminish and go into the West now that the Age of Man is ending.

I’m here for anyone dunking on Tesla, but this “article” seems to be a Lyft press release and *it’s not a Robotaxi if it has a human driver*.

Autoblog - Sorry Tesla, Lyft Is Deploying Its Own Robotaxis www.autoblog.com/news/sorry-t... But while Tesla is still sharing its ideas about a “technological renaissance,” the ride-hailing app Lyft went ahead and did the thing. #Tesla /1

Also “door handles that let you escape a burning wreck”. Didn’t realize that needed to be specified.

Me watching sci-fi: “Why can’t people understand that this AI/robot/android is a person?” Me in real life: “Why can’t people understand that ChatGPT IS NOT A PERSON?!?” #LLM #ChatGPT #BullshittingParrot

GIFT LINK @harmancipants.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

🤣 Also, there is a paid full-time driver in *each* car. FSD isn’t even approved for a one-way tunnel specifically built for Teslas.

I’m just going to say it: door handles should be simple, obvious and usable in an emergency. Especially ones needed to *exit a burning vehicle*.

Now I’m pretty sure it’s not AI slop (just regular human slop), because that doesn’t even work grammatically.

Deja-vu. Didn’t this just happen last year? Right. August 2024. “It is unknown if any automated driving features were activated on the Tesla at the time of the collision,” CHP said. Hmm 🤔

Yesterday, a Tesla struck a California Highway Patrol officer on a motorcycle who had closed a lane to remove road debris. “The use of any of Tesla’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems during the crash is being investigated, but it is unknown at this time," CHP said in a news release.

When I imagined a techno-utopia where robots did all unwanted chores, I thought it would give us *more* time to spend with our children.

To be fair, US car magazine Motortrend also hated it: “[The] Model Y is antagonistic to enjoyable driving. I dreaded getting in it and often pushed the speed limit so I could get out of it sooner. Few things have tested my patience like this car, and I have two younger brothers.“

T-Mobile refused to accept the petition. Contract security told us a company representative would come and speak to us. Instead, they called the police. We've got some great video coming soon of the head of corporate security telling us that T-Mobile doesn't care what 5,000 of their customers think

Coming to you live from T-Mobile headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, where we're delivering our petition with more than 20k sigs incl 5k+ T-Mobile subscribers demanding the company hang up on fascism. @cwaunion.bsky.social @aft.org @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social @workingfamilies.org #teslatakedown

Imagining a solution to traffic, Elon came up with “mass transit” without the masses: a high-speed underground tunnel for Teslas only. Imagining a utopian future, I’m not surprised he’s imagined one where you are surrounded by only robots that fulfill your whims, not family and friends.

I’ll be there!

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Targeted his largely liberal-environmental Californian customer base with almost surgical precision with his support of Trump, who eliminated EV subsidies and ZEV credits. Musk’s 4-D chess is too brilliant for us mere mortals to understand.

Masterful gambit; goes all-in on China who was clearly going to abandon him as soon as local companies caught up and goes all-in on fascism which turns off his North America and European customer base.