Seat Safety Switch posted:

Tesla is asking their suppliers to take a retroactive haircut on parts they've already shipped:

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2018/07/tesla-to-suppliers-take-a-hit-to-make-us-great/

we assumed you were going to do it for the exposure

ol qwerty bastard posted:

back a few years ago when everyone was starting to get excited about self-driving tech after seeing a Google car drove slowly around a parking lot i predicted that probably some idiot was going to get a car with lane assist and adaptive cruise control and think that that equals full automation; i just never expected that idiot to be tesla motors inc lmao

Bloody posted:

tesla doesnt employ real engineers because being an engineer requires having a set of ethics

infernal machines posted:

Wait, so do I understand correctly he refused direction to clean up the things he was complaining about? Seems a reasonable enough cause for termination to me. Whether the subsequent acts are reasonable remains to be seen but an employee generally doesn't get to just say no to their employer when directed to do something. This guy wasn't an engineer, as far as I can tell. He worked in the facility and had complained about the waste. That ought to shoot down his claims of wrongful termination pretty easily under most US labor law, even if he'd actually followed the rules about whistleblowing to begin with. (He had not done so.)

As far as the unsubstantiated claims of robots damaging the product, we've literally not seen evidence of this outside his claims have we? If so I've missed it entirely and one would think the folks who are shorting Tesla and stirring the pot on Twitter, etc, would have eben all over that one.

akadajet posted:

i always thought of it as the android of cars

exploded mummy posted:

https://twitter.com/MW55/status/1037084073301344257?s=19

exploded mummy posted:

nascar is well ahead of you and has a solution to oval racing

mewse posted:

Imagine discovering the security system you're investigating was publicly compromised 13 years ago

Truga posted:

airforce is buying funnelling at least 100m into the raptor engine that'll be used on the BFR, so not 100% spacex endeavour, but also spacex is charging NASA and other govt people 100m per launch while the commercial launches are 30-40% cheaper.

saying NASA isn't going to pay for BFR is a bit naive, i think

Not a Children posted:

Haha what

That poo poo only matters for enlisted and/or those who are trying to claim worker's comp

hobbesmaster posted:

i believe the traditional military industrial complex thing to do is to find a clearable minority veteran woman to run a shell company that subcontracts everything to spacex

hobbesmaster posted:

musk is probably too proud to do something like this even on paper

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

ate all the Oreos posted:

also musk thought robots were magic and could assemble 100% of the car and move so fast you can't even see them clearly and the only reason people weren't already using robots like this was other companies were too silly and old fashioned and needed ~disrupting~

i don't want that point to ever be lost, musk genuinely believed he could hit all those absurd goals he set because he took the idea "robots are magic god-creatures that are only ever artificially held back by humans" as clear, obvious fact without question

ol qwerty bastard posted:

when people find out I work with industrial robots theyre inevitably like "haha so when are they going to take over the world" and honestly i think it's a classification error; the word "robot" is just too broad

there's like zero overlap between the type of robot you use in auto manufacturing and the type that can use deep learning or whatever to deal with unexpected situations, and from the standpoint of a robot, a soft part being in a slightly different configuration is an "unexpected situation"

things like installing wiring harnesses or placing those flame barrier mats on top of the battery modules are so clearly suited to human hands and Musk is a goddamn moron if he somehow can't understand this

Sagebrush posted:

*Makes jerking off motions* Eventually!

mewse posted:

the nerdboner is for automated intersections without lights where cars cross-stitch across the intersection

Sagebrush posted:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is fallout in russia and it's far better than any fallout game anyway

Shame Boy posted:

why isn't the fail safe override "disconnect the spark plugs and roll to a stop"

genuine question, cuz as a kid i crashed a (janky, cobbled-together, originally found in a junkyard) moped into a tree and destroyed my knee and had to have it rebuilt and learn to walk again over the course of 6 months and my dad's solution to make the thing "safe" was 'install a switch that cuts the ignition so you'll just roll to a stop quickly before you hit anything'

that moped later went on to rip all the skin off a friend's leg because the centrifugal clutch that your fleshy legmeat sat right next to didn't have any sort of guard, so dad fashioned one out of sheet metal and kept right on riding the drat thing, problem solved

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

luxury car owner doesnt care that their turn signals dont work, checks out kgob

ADINSX posted:

I bought a GTI about a year ago and aside from the front seats being a little narrow on my legs its been fine. The idea that "an audi is a rebadged VW" is sort of a selling feature if you're buying the latter, and it was the styling and appointment of the cabin that really sold me on the GTI vs hot hatches from Ford, etc. Maybe its all cheap widow dressing but it worked on me.

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

you mean sourcing all of our fresh water from desalinators would put additional selection pressure on the least fit? how is that something a techlord would object to

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

not really, but it can locally elevate salinity in more confined bodies of water

but that's not really comparable to the changing oceanic conditions caused by climate change, which can include increasing and decreasing salinity

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

its not like the water disappears after it gets desalinated, piped to me, and peed in. local salinity increases: yes duh. global: how?

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

so you are saying that the water does disappear, just after i stop looking at it

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

im trying to understand how the total volume of water in the ocean decreases due to desalination

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lol your own source describes the impacts as acutely local

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

oh where is the additional salt coming from. it wasn't clear to me where in the remove water from ocean -> desalinize -> dump waste into ocean process we are adding salt

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

idk you sounded pretty clear on the impact

El_Elegante posted:

i mean, look at you’re posts

ol qwerty bastard posted:

the water cycle is the original trickle-down economics

hailthefish posted:

I'm sure someone will start building lovely resorts and planting palm trees in georgia and the carolinas before too long