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monkeytennis posted:Yeah I think it was the same guy who invented Hesco barriers for military bases. Didn’t he live in Leeds or something. Hesco barriers are legit brilliant. They're one of those ideas so simple and obvious you see it and wonder how they weren't invented a hundred years ago.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:chill the lithium batteries are just a stopgap Why is there a Pikachu on the window? Are pokemon also real in the heady world of 1975?
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Just caught part of an episode of MegaFactories on TV. It was from a few years ago and all about Tesla. It's amazing how obvious what we know now was when looking at footage from back then*. The segment I saw was all about their super advanced production facility with spiffy clean robots and all that. But all I could see were the total lack of safety barriers, no markings on the freshly painted white floor, and all the staff (including a wandering executive pulling his suitcase along the ground behind him like he was at an airport) not wearing a single piece of PPE. One shot had a robot pick up a huge flat metal panel from a pile sitting on the floor and spinning around with the edges perfectly at neck height. No safety barriers whatsoever. In fact, the only safety barriers I saw were a few yellow bollards spaced about 5m apart which you could literally have driven a truck through. It's even on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC3bUpt4m-A Here's a shot taken from the opening of the video. It's certainly all shiny and sci fi, but this is not what a car manufacturing plant should look like.  * Good lord, that's a clunky sentence. Megillah Gorilla has issued a correction as of 05:18 on Aug 4, 2018 |
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I was having a chat with some of our electrical engineers today after an OSHA meeting and the topic of fail safe came up and what it actually means. Fail. Safe. If it fails, it will do so in a safe way. Compressor shorts out, fuse blows, everything comes to a stop. It fails safe. Tesla catches fire and loses power, you can't open the doors without pulling them apart (or have to climb out the boot) and risk being trapped in a burning car. It fails unsafe. But what's the word for it? We couldn't think of a good one. Fail deadly? Fail hosed? Fail fail safe? Because everything about Musk is the opposite of fail safe. Every one of his 'good' ideas just falls flat when you consider what would happen when anything went wrong.
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Aug 5, 2018 13:47
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Kommienzuspadt posted:lmfao only Musk is capable of bragging about a balance sheet that terrible. I guess post no profits for 15 y in a row, what's another quarter Amazon has ruined a generation of business people. Amazon went years without making a profit and they're hugely successful. Tesla has gone years without making a profit, therefore they must also be successful. Let's all just forget that was because Amazon was taking all the mountains of money they were making and investing it in expanding their company. Now, "not making money" is one of the markers the financial cargo culters are using for defining successful businesses.
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Aug 6, 2018 07:17
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Lucky that safety cone's there or that could have gotten serious.
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Aug 12, 2018 17:41
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Wulfolme posted:musk has borrowed (hundreds of?) millions with his tesla shares as collateral, his chunk can't just slide into being a private asset Holy poo poo. $650million. I can't even fathom a world where you can just bullshit your way into that kind of money.
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Aug 13, 2018 19:59
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bring back old gbs posted:imagine a world where your dad owns a diamond mine.... The only true only path to wealth is to already have it 
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treasured8elief posted:ye If you know someone's trying to swat you, running to a casino might be the best chance you have of staying alive. There's no way a casino would put up with the usual police tactics of shooting everyone they see. And, if they tried, the casino'd loving wreck them in court.
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Aug 14, 2018 05:47
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:In extremely Serth Afrecan voice: stop squirmeng grahms! South African is an easy accent to write. Just replace every vowel with the letter 'e'.
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Aug 15, 2018 06:08
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A rave where everyone is listening to their own music on their own headphones. That would be the most hilarious loving thing in the world. Imagine coming in, not wearing any headphones, and seeing all those idiots flailing around making those grunting noises people make when they're wearing headphones and can't hear themselves.
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This is it. This is the dumbest thing. Beyond the safety issues, beyond the crappy design. It took goddamn internet of things bullshit to create the dumbest thing in this whole mess, A key fob which requires internet access to let you in to your car and won't even allow you to start it without Tesla's servers being available  infernal machines posted:but also, remember, tesla can arbitrarily enable or disable any features of your vehicle, including the entire vehicle itself, remotely at will They've gone full Apple.
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Aug 20, 2018 19:47
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infernal machines posted:also, apparently the keyfob can lose sync with the car if you change the battery Actually, this sort of poo poo is very much standard with cars. I couldn't find the one about resyncing my key fob, but this is how you turn off the annoying beeping if you sit in a Ford and don't have your seatbelt plugged in. And because I know it'll come up - please never drive without your seatbelt on! But, also, it's nice to be able to put my suitcase on the passenger seat without the goddamn alarm going off. 
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Aug 20, 2018 19:53
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Shear Modulus posted:that old joke about a mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer, and a computer programmer in a car and their car breaks down except they actually do need to roll all the windows down, turn the car off, turn the car back on, and roll the windows back up Cars are already like this. Posting this again: 
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Aug 27, 2018 14:46
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Shear Modulus posted:lol what car is this Pretty much all Fords made after 2002.
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Aug 28, 2018 06:33
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Bobbie Wickham posted:And it's starting to make the rounds in the news. (Those stories don't have any new information, but the backlash is swelling again.) I hope they point out the letter is from the 6th of August - 3 weeks ago! EDIT:  
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Aug 29, 2018 17:37
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LGD posted:I mean it wouldn't be bad if you did it properly- just replace all those candy dispensers with a huge wall mounted colony, it would be rad as heck Okay, I want an ant wall now. Cooler than stupid candy, easier to manage than an aquarium. Like this map of Rotterdamn ant farm, but bigger: 
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Aug 29, 2018 19:11
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orcinus posted:Onto other matters... Goddamn it, you can't have unions in a post scarcity society where there is no longer any need to work and people spend their lives idly enjoying themselves and occasionally engaging in brutal centuries long interstellar wars against other post scarcity societies where people spend their lives idly enjoying themselves.
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Aug 31, 2018 19:20
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Stefan Prodan posted:@TeslaMotors Model S autopilot camera misreads 101 sign as 105 speed limit at 87/101 junction San Jose. Reproduced every day this week. Just going for a drive and suddenly my car breaks the loving sound barrier.  Overtook a goddamn SR-71 Blackbird, swear to god.
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orcinus posted:Speaking of central driving position... I love the idea of central driving position, but for almost every application which is not race car driver, they end up as a hindrance. Not to say, they can't look cool: Dreamliner     More recently:    
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:
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SENTIENT HOUSEMEAT posted:Replace those trains with individual cars on a Special Trolley and we're on to a winner. 
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Bert Roberge posted:
Don't you just love it when the manufacturer of your car can remotely, and at whim, enable or disable any and every feature in your vehicle?
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BalloonFish posted:BMW aren't the only ones by a long shot. It's not even restricted to the days of electronic engine management - in the 1970s Vauxhall fitted every Viva model on sale with the sender and wiring for a temperature gauge, but on the lower-spec ones the wire wasn't plugged in and there was a blanking plate over the hole in the dash. For about £2 in parts and 10 seconds to attach the plug you could get an optional extra that Vauxhall would charge you £10 for. My Ford Escape did this with the fog lights. Only the more expensive model had fog lights, the standard one had everything all set up, just with a plastic cover over the hole in the dash where the fog light button would be and they didn't cut out the holes in the plastic bumper for the lights. Even the onboard computer had the option turned on. So I bought a new button from a dealership for $30 and some fog lights off Ebay. Cut out the plastic on the bumper, plugged the lights straight into the wiring loom, because even the connectors were already there. Then I popped the button blank off and pushed in the fog light button. Nice and easy. Bert Roberge posted:I can't wait until one of these things is remotely hacked. I'm genuinely shocked no one has bothered to find a way to spoof the signal if every Tesla is 'broadcasting an IP address' internet of things style.
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Genderfluent posted:Bad news for the Tesla semi:  
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Lote posted:I'm probably reading this incorrectly, but if they have the option of refusal upon delivery, then it counts as a sale when they start shipping? So, if they ship cars they know are trash and the customers refuse to accept them, it doesn't matter because it looks good on their books? That explains a lot, actually. All those stories of people being told to pick up their car only to find the panels are different colours or the paint is all chipped - maybe it wasn't just incredibly lovely quality control  And if individual dud cars are being pushed on multiple customers, would that count as multiple sales? One car, sold over and over, each time counting as a new sale even though no one actually accepts it. Megillah Gorilla has issued a correction as of 06:11 on Sep 16, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1041421552300916736 I honestly have no idea what his goal is with this. Is he trying to hide that there are no parts? Is he going to loot them for spare parts? Change the VIN and sell them to new customers? Also - good luck if you're on the other side of the country. Or not even in the US. This should lead to some hilarious poo poo, no matter what. Megillah Gorilla has issued a correction as of 14:09 on Sep 18, 2018 |
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:they’re like the Speed Racer movie and the person is sprayed with quick set foam and entombed in a cocoon instantly before the crash wraps your in metal and glass. You mean Demolition Man. 
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Looks like they got one thing right. Or Your car can't be unsafe on the road if it's never running in the first place
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Sep 21, 2018 07:20
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How does a new* car get oil on the loving seat? * car may have already been sold/returned by a dozen customers at this point.
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Trabisnikof posted:I’d just assume that Teslas are flatbed only. How do you get them off the flatbed?
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orcinus posted:The glue that holds the Tesla fenders is made of Grimes. 
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How the gently caress is that even legal, let alone possible?
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nikosoft posted:https://twitter.com/skabooshka/status/1045587149532221440 I said this a couple of weeks ago about their sales figures, half as a joke, but it really does look like that's exactly what they're doing. That was when we found out that rejected cars were being sent out to multiple buyers and it was possible Tesla was counting each time as a car delivered.
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FAUXTON posted:Lol they're painting the fuckers outside and the paint is getting dust and poo poo on it while drying It's even worse than that. If you look at the bottom left of the photo:  Not only are they illegally painting them outdoors, they're painting them right next to the rubbish dump.
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orcinus posted:There is one.   
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Didn't the New Generation Enterprise have only one toilet? EDIT: Yep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKQzZfpaz8
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Aircraft computer systems run on the "5 nines" concept of 99.999% uptime, or down-time of 5.26 minutes per year. Because lives depend on that poo poo. I'd love to know what Tesla's rating is.
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Lote posted:https://twitter.com/bsa19741/status/1050529267979866112 I'm still waiting for the evidence that they counted failed deliveries (i.e. customers returning broken cars) as deliveries and therefore got multiple "deliveries" from single cars.
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