Recent content by Economite

That's not what the policy says. Even if Tesla chooses not to buy the car back, you still can only sell to a private party if Tesla gives you permission to do so. There is nothing that obligates Tesla to give you permission to sell to a private party.

The problem is having to get Tesla's permission. If you don't like your Cybertruck, do you really want Tesla to have absolute discretion as to whether to let you sell it at all? Why would anyone give that sort of control to a company. This provision gives Tesla an unfettered right to...

Hmmm... So if you buy a Cybertruck and then decide that you don't like it, you can only get rid of the thing and get a more normal car if you can convince Tesla to give you permission to sell the Cybertruck? Given all we know about the, er, unique features and design of the vehicle, along with...

Even to the extent that's true (and in my view Bill Gates has far more self-control and common sense than Elon), would you want Bill Gates controlling Twitter?

Because he thinks the purpose of government is to subsidize and enable his every thought and let him do whatever he wants. Democracy gets in the way of that, so he prefers a corrupt government that isn't accountable to the people. Also, destabilizing the US helps him with his business dealings...

This is just tactless:

SpaceX is using a $4,500 monthly rate for service for nodes that had a $500 plan. And the normal rate for basic consumer service from SpaceX in Ukraine is $60. This is a telecommunication service, so rates aren't based on marginal costs of service, but on what the markets will bear. Musk is...

Seems like SpaceX is using big pharma level pricing games to get DoD to bail out Starlink. CNN: Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX says it can no longer pay for critical satellite services in Ukraine, asks Pentagon to pick up the tab. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-ukraine

Frankly, a refund seems like the more likely relief. I can't see an arbitrator ordering Tesla to give you a buggy update that so far has basically just been distributed to Tesla employees (and a small handful of others) for what amounts to internal testing. (Though Musk deserves to be...

Or it could be hesitant just cause the FSD Beta version doesn't work in a remotely safe way (which is pretty much what all the posted videos show).

My question for Elon would be why the hell is he releasing "party trick" features that involve unreliable software moving a multi-ton self-propelled object. If it's merely a party trick and it's not useful or reliable, why put it out in the wild? Software that controls the movement of the car...

Apologies... I thought you were being sarcastic...

The police don't look at what caused what damage. They look at which car was responsible for the collision happening. In a rear-ending like this, the car in back is nearly always responsible. Also, the police finding is done quickly, and has almost nothing to do with what liability will be...

That is an eight year-old piece of research that didn't look at any crash data or any of the modern systems that are actually in cars on the road today. It surveyed a bunch of published, even older, articles that either (i) surveyed users of these systems about how the systems made them feel or...

This was not some weird "edge case". This was a normal sort of situation (lanes on both sides have slower traffic, car in the left lane signals for a lane change and makes the lane change) that happens constantly when one is driving. And passive aggressiveness ("you are great at being wrong...