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Slippery slope fallacy.

Trucks are far safer for their occupants than motorcycles are for their riders.

ATGATT is the ONLY way to ride responsibly. All The Gear, All The Time. I designed this suit to look like the Apollo 16 Commander's EVA suit and had it custom-made. It came in handy when I was building my audience as a motovlogger on YouTube. I even met some JPL employees this way, one of whom...

Attitudes like yours are why FSD is already superior to humans. You write like someone who's never ridden a motorcycle in your life. Obviously, FSD is not just about the driver, it's about protecting all other motorists (and pedestrians) from the mistakes error-prone humans make, including but...

So you're lying?

I'd hate to see your take on pedestrians.

FSD and the collision warning/intervention system will minimize motorcyclist deaths vs. poor judgment and low skill from the vehicle drivers who cause accidents with riders. Chief among the offenders are the people who fail to judge speed and distance and make a turn in front of an oncoming...

Trucks don't kill riders, inattentive and low-skill people in vehicles kill riders. Teslas at least can see a motorcyclist and warn the driver in some cases, assuming the motorcyclist isn't riding too fast with insane speed disparity. Better yet, a Tesla in FSD mode will respond better than a...

I know at least one person who disses Elon because of political differences but he still drives a Tesla. :D

This reminds me of tire companies buying and dismantling companies which were poised to reduced tire sales. Could be a block move by BP.

Tesla is not for the faint of heart or the casuals. I agree that 80 hrs. a week seems like a lot, but he's in hardcore mode. He wants people like that around him. Do I think it's the best way forward? No, but I haven't figured out how to land rocket boosters on their struts either. That's...

This is normal for Elon, and we saw how he gutted legacy Twitter (now X) and replaced the fat with an agile and dedicated skeleton crew. As others have mentioned, we don't know what Elon knows but he seems very averse to inefficiency in all areas of the companies he runs. There's no way he's...

"Wanna take a ride?"

*$3,000, $1,000. Dollar sign goes before the number.

*Teslas (plural), not Tesla's (possessive). My Tesla Model 3 Performance was under $100 for six months through Tesla Insurance. Any other mainstream insurer would have tried to rake me over the coals, especially because it's a Performance model. I'm a 55-year-old male with a clean driving...

Hi All, Got my new (to me) 2023 Tesla Model 3 Performance yesterday! $40k, <6,000 miles, meticulous single owner, lots of upgrades including the Zero-G wheels from the Tesla track package. The side profile visualizes the white handle wrap I'll be adding soon. :) I prefer the look of the...

Inozetek Vampire Red is gorgeous. It's deep like Ultra Red. I'm getting this color for the same reason, because I love Ultra Red but I prefer the look of the last gen Model 3.

I tried FSD for the very first time, which happened to be the free one-month 12.3.3 trial delivered over this past weekend. I got mine on Easter Sunday. Holy smokes, it's so good. After backing out and setting my nav for the nearby pet store, I tipped the stalk down and the car took over...

It takes the ego, audacity, courage, intellect, frenetic pace, and humor of Elon to Elon. If people want normal they can always buy a Ford or Rivian. Tesla would have died without Elon, and big oil would have been glad to kill off yet another EV startup.

*NACS uses Tesla. :)

The Superbowl is not just a sporting event, it's an event and an occasion where people gather for watch parties, fans and non-fans alike. The commercials are a feature of this event and a meta-event unto themselves. For some, they're more interesting than the game. The Superbowl is also a very...

Just realized I can still contribute to my 2023 Roth IRA until April 15th, 2024 (I'm 55) so I'm in for 11 more $TSLA this morning. The FUD is strong right now but I'm HODLing and buying the dip! I really want to soundproof the music studio for vocal tracking (will cost 8-10k if done...

Why on Earth would Ford pull a Toyota and sink money into hybrids? That's like companies deciding that ISDN is the future...or thinking we should go back to LaserDiscs. Bad move by Jim Farley.

Don't forget the obligatory deicing shovel! :D

Ha, I noticed the 4.20% too. Also, it's spelled 'ludicrous' but you probably got auto-corrected. :)

Kia has the worst commercials too. A recent Kia commercial i saw tells me that Kia thinks we're ineffcient, disrespectful buffoons. Who the hell makes a father drive all the way back home for a $2 binky for the baby, only to tell the dutiful and incurious courier that the baby likes the color...

At least you understand what's at-stake, and you've chosen the best EV to own and drive and with the best charging network by a huge margin. I'm sure you've eaten Chick-Fil-A, right? Do you know about their CEO's views? How about the founder of Carl's Jr.? Wal-Mart? Barilla pasta? The point is...

If one checks TikTok, Elon has a huge amount of support in the comments and I couldn't even get through all of them in one reading. A lot of people are saying they will buy a Tesla because of his views, not in spite of them. He's winning new fans and supporters even if it's no longer the same...

LOL! SNL memetic slip-up. Franz von Holzhausen! Dang I can't fix it now. :) We are here to pump *clap* you up!

It's literally form following function as Elon and Hanz have told us, because the steel-bending and stamping machines cannot bend the ultra hard cold-rolled steel Tesla uses for the CT. I also think the dystopian future Mad Max/Blade Runner look is fully intentional. I know your comment was in...

True, but I don't think the chrome trim uses real chrome. It's just shiny plastic and probably doesn't have nickel in it, though I'm not sure how they achieve that look. Generally, real chrome adds mass without much other than cosmetic appeal (for some) so the cost/benefit doesn't add up...

Thanks! Though I love the look of the Y unto itself, it's a little too much like the 3 for my taste. But, I think it's objectively beautiful even if the familial relationship to the 3 feels a little too close for comfort sometimes. Then again, Tesla reuses parts and processes because they're...

As a professional artist I have to strongly disagree with you. I think the Model 3 is a beautiful, clean, uncluttered, timeless design and that beauty is not merely subjective. There's a science to it attached to an understanding of human psychology. Human beauty is not merely subjective even...

This is the color I spotted in the Investor Day video and mentioned it a few pages back. It's gorgeous! I doesn't necessarily have to be a new shade of red which makes this pop but a new process which makes the paint look deep and rich. Either way, I love it.

Canoo got a rave review from Sandy Munro when he drove the thing, and it LOOKS amazing. If Tesla does as good of a job on their family van (assuming it's not a Sprinter-style) it's going to be a hit. Of course, Tesla's version will have superior tech and the expansive Supercharging network. Then...

I had the same issue. I'm hard-of-hearing and I use a headphone amplifier to hear videos from the 'net, and I had to crank everything all the way up just to get a decent signal. I don't have this issue normally with TV or any computer/Internet-sourced audio.

This is Off Topic but Elon is looking much more fit these days. Anyone notice that? He talked about taking Otezla for weight-loss and I'm hoping he spells it OTesla. :D I take o-TSLA for financial GAIN (long time horizon). ;)

TSLA always seems to drop after good news, and Wall Street doesn't understand nuance or too much tech. Same with retail investors, to a lesser extent. So, this AH move means nothing to me, nor will any temporary price drop before people 'get it' and the coiled spring's potential energy is...

Gene I hope your surgeons are skilled and well-rested, and that you make it through with flying colors!

I prefer this version of Hanlon's Razor; "Never attribute to malice that which is better explained by stupidity." Malice takes some knowledge and intelligence to know the truth but to maliciously misdirect people (a la Gordon Johnson). Stupidity on the other hand takes no effort at all...

Entitled electric sheep. I hope never to dream of them.

I like how the $TSLA stock price landed on Valentine's Day, 2024. ;) To the moon!

Let's hoping we end the week GREEN. Page 20k, wow!

This is the correction. ;)

"LR" isn't "MY". "MY" is often read as a possessive adjective so it's confusing. Also, if I had a Model Y I would never use "MY" as shorthand.

Amazing interview and tour. Thank you! I love that Musk has his own 'tribute' office space along with other car guys.

Knowing how Rob is, I'm hoping he corrects his error once he understands it. Hopefully.

I shook the couch cushions and got 21 more shares today. I actually had to replace the order because it was rising so fast! Maybe I should be setting much higher limit order prices!

Turnabout is fair play.

San Francisco IS far Left, demographically. A 'generalization' is not a bad thing or a bad word. It's simple pattern recognition, part of core human intelligence. We generalize tigers as dangerous, but there could be a friendly one out there. Exceptionalism is a way to be wrong, if one survives...