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Nothus posted:I'll give Musk this: he's managed to convince lots of wealthy rubes to accept a level of quality and customer service that would have destroyed a traditional car company. I know a dude who's tesla arrived 9 months late, had poo poo falling off of it immediately, and if he ever damages it lol good luck finding a body shop that can work on it. does he love the car though?
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Agronox posted:does he love the car though? Absolutely. For a dude who is cold hard reason about everything else, it's a fantastic lesson in human nature.
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With everything wrong with it, I guess Tesla's marketing team at least knows what they're doing.
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mandatory lesbian posted:With everything wrong with it, I guess Tesla's marketing team at least knows what they're doing. whatever they paid the waitbutwhy guy was an amazing investment. it alone generated thousands of cultists for musk. and if somehow waitbutwhy guy did it for free he was a giant rube
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mandatory lesbian posted:With everything wrong with it, I guess Tesla's marketing team at least knows what they're doing. They really have the iCar image down.
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Katt posted:Teslas are like those lizards that drop their tails when they feel threatened but wheels instead. carmeleons?
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Nothus posted:I'll give Musk this: he's managed to convince lots of wealthy rubes to accept a level of quality and customer service that would have destroyed a traditional car company. I know a dude who's tesla arrived 9 months late, had poo poo falling off of it immediately, and if he ever damages it lol good luck finding a body shop that can work on it. rich people are incredibly gullible, and this is basically pocket change for them so they don't really care whether their status symbols actually work. luxury cars have awful quality and customer service too, though nowhere near tesla levels of bad
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gschmidl posted:carmeleons? axleotls
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FAUXTON posted:axleotls swhomp lizards ok fine that's Runescape
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Admiral Ray posted:oh my god additionally, LADOT was extremely skeptical of the whole idea when I spoke to them a while ago. also: https://twitter.com/seletajewel/status/1075432309795414018 Happy Noodle Boy posted:Yeah, at the very least there should have been a geotechnical report (signed and stamped) followed by the structural design (signed and stamped). A project of this nature probably also needed environmental (CA regulations may be different if the project was 100% privately funded), storm/drainage and possibly ROW impacts though deep tunnels get to bypass a lot of that poo poo. And that’s just for the tunnel itself, anything involving the actual rail system or whatever the gently caress they use is its own beast. you can read the Hawthorne permit here: http://hawthorne-ca.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=541&meta_id=35798 drgitlin has issued a correction as of 22:29 on Dec 22, 2018 |
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mandatory lesbian posted:With everything wrong with it, I guess Tesla's marketing team at least knows what they're doing. The most disturbing thing about the Musk cult to me is that his stupid proclamations, idiot micromanagement and tiresome gimmicks probably actually do drive up demand for the cars. It's easy to argue Elon Musk should not be in charge of Tesla, but I don't know what to do about thousands of bazingas who vehemently insist that the Homermobile is better than one that doesn't fall apart. It's not even that they prefer the tradeoff of fun over reliability, because nothing about Fart Mode or Mario Kart Mode logically requires the rear bumper to fall off in the rain.
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mandatory lesbian posted:With everything wrong with it, I guess Tesla's marketing team at least knows what they're doing. their message is that buying a Tesla is helping to save the world from climate change
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Powershift posted:Train wheels are tapered, and the axle moves to the outside of the track making the outside wheel run on a larger diameter part of the wheel and the inside wheel https://youtu.be/xA4aaSzqT9s Around the 8 minute mark.
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Lord Stimperor posted:You mean like this? (viewed as frontal section) Im watching this on the awful app so the code is a bit weirded out but from what I can see yes. It's basically just taking the taper from the wheels onto the track and due to gravitational centering the car will ride in the middle. Whompy wheels guaranteed though.
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Combat Theory posted:Im watching this on the awful app so the code is a bit weirded out but from what I can see yes. I should draw this on a yellow legal pad and post it to elon's twitter maybe we'd all get to see some whomp
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I mean one just has to imagine the insanity of this roller steering rack abomination. Say there's a brick of loose congrete that fell next to the wall and your roller goes over it, or a coke can from a tunnel worker, or anything the car in front of you lost... you either break your steering rack at the impact, which means you die in a horrible tunnel fire, or the roller and rack survive, but steer you into the opposite wall, which means you die in a tunnel fire. This is like a motorized Futurama suicide booth. Or the closest thing  made so far...
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orcinus posted:https://youtu.be/xA4aaSzqT9s Engineering solutions like this fascinate me. One of my favorite YouTube videos is engineer guy talking about how a simple coffee maker works.
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Combat Theory posted:I mean one just has to imagine the insanity of this roller steering rack abomination. Isn't it basically a lovely copy of the curb guided bus concept that has been in use for decades at this point?
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Maybe the real genius of Musk is being such a loving poo poo turd on Twitter we fall all over ourselves solving his engineering problems to demonstrate what a loving idiot he is. It's free work
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I like to imagine a show where Musk and other SV "visionaries" build a rocket to escape a dying Earth and the whacky exploits they have as it
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Tesla is basically what happens when you let a guy who took 8 years to get through college but thinks he's a genius run a company.
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SardonicTyrant posted:I like to imagine a show where Musk and other SV "visionaries" build a rocket to escape a dying Earth and the whacky exploits they have as it Like atlas shrugged except everyone in galts gulch dies of cholera because they're all lucille bluth
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Lucille would be drinking such strong alcohol she'd avoid cholera Also I presume Musk talked with the Japanese as to how to make those tunnels earthquake-proof
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Goodpancakes posted:Maybe the real genius of Musk is being such a loving poo poo turd on Twitter we fall all over ourselves solving his engineering problems to demonstrate what a loving idiot he is. It's free work
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"Imagine CatDog, but instead with the animals butts. Musk has melded the train and the car to create the transportation equivalent of butt-butt." lmao
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So the plan is to load individual cars on individual trains to travel 2 miles?
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Muscle Wizard posted:i really really want to know what that dude thinks goes on in japanese subways. ive seen some animated films about this
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Elephanthead posted:So the plan is to load individual cars on individual trains to travel 2 miles? I dont think anyone really knows what the gently caress the plan is. Its seriously a different concept every time someone asks what it is hes doing.
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Elephanthead posted:So the plan is to load individual cars on individual trains to travel 2 miles? No, you load the cars into a tunnel and they drive themselves. How this is any different than a single lane one way road is unclear to me. The other brilliant thing is that muskyboy plans to just keep adding more tunnels (lanes) if usage is too high...he said you could easily have 40 of em...which means you need to merge and unmerge those 40 tunnels lmbo
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LegoMan posted:Engineering solutions like this fascinate me. One of my favorite YouTube videos is engineer guy talking about how a simple coffee maker works. i just thought about what wouold happen if someone asked musk to design a coffee maker
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Sir Tonk posted:ive seen some animated films about this Isn't there a big problem with women being g groped on Japanese subways? Like, so bad that there are women-only train cars to help combat the problem?
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Elephanthead posted:So the plan is to load individual cars on individual trains to travel 2 miles? there's a bunch of different plans, and he's constantly changing details around, because he's just trying to promise everyone everything and doesn't have any real intention to put any of it into practice
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Day Man posted:Isn't there a big problem with women being g groped on Japanese subways? Like, so bad that there are women-only train cars to help combat the problem? it's not as huge a problem as the media would have you think. but because so many people in japan rely on public transport, they're frequently packed nuts to butts in carriages. this leaves women unable to really do anything if some weirdo decides to get gropey other than create a big scene which the culture in japan strongly disapproves of (views are improving on stuff like this though). as a result, you can see why many women would feel safer in female-only carriages, which in many cases are only available during peak times bc of the aforementioned overcrowding problem.
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Teal posted:If you can afford a good insurance that'll cover riots it's probably a good way out of a regretful purchase because the market value of your used tesla is already probably like a third of what you bought it at. lmao my coworker bought a used model s
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Day Man posted:Isn't there a big problem with women being g groped on Japanese subways? Like, so bad that there are women-only train cars to help combat the problem? according to a former coworker it’s socially acceptable to rape someone on a train she was an idiot who had never been, because if you go you’ll see uh that’s not true but as the other guy said, they’re lips to assholes in there and of course there are perverts (see: Japan) and they are really not about expressing indignation or creating commotion so the victims are not vocal about it but it’s not a loving rape free-for-all
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:according to a former coworker it’s socially acceptable to rape someone on a train I’m guessing your former coworker watches too much Japanese porn
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Raldikuk posted:No, you load the cars into a tunnel and they drive themselves. How this is any different than a single lane one way road is unclear to me. I'd been thinking about the switching/merging on the tunnels issue too, even small railway yards are insanely complicated. And that's before even thinking about the routing & coordination required.
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Raldikuk posted:No, you load the cars into a tunnel and they drive themselves. How this is any different than a single lane one way road is unclear to me. So, basically there’s going to be a huge void under LA and the only thing holding everything up is a network of concrete tubes made by SpaceX interns.
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the onion wizard posted:I'd been thinking about the switching/merging on the tunnels issue too, even small railway yards are insanely complicated. And that's before even thinking about the routing & coordination required. Machine learning will solve it...
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