Occam’s got hairy legs and razor burn from how often I been borrowing the razor lately

I noticed it and I didn’t say nothin but I’m low-key proud to have inspired this trend

Something tells me those funds are frozen in the way that stuff north of the permafrost line gets frozen and never gets unfrozen

Easier to stave off a lawsuit if you don’t say what you mean, you just do what you mean, you know?

First comment on the thread that made me laugh out loud, 10 points

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaair point XD

The rebate is quite large. $5,000 or thereabouts in most cases. The company also fronts that money to the customer, and then claims reimbursement from the government.

Have you ever known any business to delay in collecting $5,000, particularly when it is sitting as a liability on their books until they collect? Much less to do that more than 8,000 times?

I’m American too. I trust they’ll be fair (in a free and open society, it is dangerous for an arbiter to not be fair, hard to get reelected if you seem like a fraud to your electorate). I do not trust they’ll be friendly. They’re going to audit those records as hard as they’ve audited anything in a generation.

For my money, that’s the most probable reasoning for why Tesla tried this.

Falls under the “cool motive, still fraud” umbrella, but it makes the most sense.

I’m sure the transport minister will be a friendly and impartial arbiter the day after 25% tariffs were announced on Canada’s vital-and-thoroughly-intertwined-with-the-USA automotive industry.

Bahaha, who am I kidding. But then, if there’s nothing to find, the Canadians won’t fabricate anything, they have a functional 4th Estate and the journalists have a way of finding things like that. Stay tuned.

Freudian slip, but it does low-key work as word-play!

Oh lord the news has him bricked up like a Cybertruck after a routine software update.

Please tell him he is perfect! He can sponge up all of my attentions

Just announcing a follow-up self-driving system on their first really pretty bad system has them on an escape trajectory with their stock price.

I’m starting to think Tesla set all the wrong examples for the auto industry.

Can’t deny any of that.

Have I mentioned, I’m broadly surprised by how reasonable the conversations are here versus Reddit? Thanks for that, I think I misunderstood your initial comment

(Edit: Ope, I think I misunderstood you, my bad. Disregard my reply.)

What a world we’re living in!

Observing a technical deficiency in a robotics platform requires political considerations. Even when a car drives into a fucking wall at 40MPH on camera, people are asking about the camera man’s political party affiliation and not what’s wrong with the car.

Wild!

Back when Elon made avoiding LiDAR a core part of his professional personality, it was fairly expensive. But as any tech genius can tell ya, component prices drop rapidly for electronics.

Now, radar is dirty cheap. Everything has radar. Radar was removed from Teslas. A radar sensor for my truck is $75, probably much less at scale orders.

LiDAR sensors cost anywhere from $500-$1,500 for a vehicle of this type, near as I can tell (this type being Level 2 autonomy rather than something like a Waymo. A well-kitted out self-driving vehicle has 4 LiDAR sensors).

Here is the LiDAR module currently used on the Mercedes S-Class, it’s $400 used: https://www.ebay.com/itm/285816360464

It’s a hideously small cost-savings in 2025 for a luxury vehicle like a Tesla. Any rational company would’ve reversed course after the first stationary-object-strike fatality. Tesla is not a rational company.

Someone else had an interesting take elsewhere on the thread, and that got me looking.

Here is that mural you’re looking for, it’s in South Carolina, took me like 60 seconds of searching to find one so I am sure there are others: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tunnelvision

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Y’all excused, don’t sweat it! I sure did write the article you did not read. No worries, reading bores me sometimes, too.

Your take is one of the sillier opinions that I’ve come across in a minute. I won’t waste any more time explaining it to you than that. The test does not strike informed individuals as pointless.

Who downvoted this? XD This brings me joy