Gregory's ServerIn case anyone else needed a good belly laugh today.
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 Here's the link for anyone interested. But beware, Futurism chooses to display its text in light grey on a white background which is hard to read.  --- Auto car wash will void warranty? Sounds like the vehicle is not made to withstand basic wear and tear. It is not consumer ready. Everyone get together and file a class action law suit. That's a great perspective. Musky made a drivable iPhone entangled in its own universe. Maybe rose gold will be the next upgrade, cost twice as much, and still lack water resistance. @chu @Betterifyouneil @BobLefridge @greg ya, tesla is a tech company trying to rediscover car design without 150 years of iterative knowhow … so, as you say, they’re basically ipads on wheels. But uglier @greg @Betterifyouneil @chu @BobLefridge  @chu @Betterifyouneil @BobLefridge @greg I think the bus your friend is referring to is CAN bus. It's used in ALL modern cars, ICE, hybrid or EVs. Basically, if your car has automatic door locks, it most probably uses CAN bus. It's been a standard in the industry for decades now. And no, a fail in a CAN bus node doesn't bring the whole system down. CAN bus is fault-tolerant, and you should really do an awful implementation to allow a non-critical node to bring the system down. @chu @Betterifyouneil @BobLefridge @greg I want to clarify that I'm not defending Testa. I wouldn't buy one if I had the money. But CAN bus is not the problem. They have horrendous quality control, and their post-sales services are pretty bad. Their biggest merit is putting EVs in the spotlight. But there are way better options out there. @BobLefridge @greg @chu if you use a browser like Opera or Vivaldi, they both have a 'force black background with white text's option in their Accessibility settings. At least on android... While most browsers have the option, I'll never understand any web designer using difficult to read combinations as their default.  @BobLefridge I like the optimism of saying "don't tell them you took it to a car wash", like they wouldn't just check the camera logs without you knowing.   @thestrangelet And not a Panzer at all, those are built to survive as much as possible.   I’m really curious about how they withstand a rainstorm. The coming stories of splitting apart doing a u-ee will be… expected. @chu Remember when Musk said the Cybertruck would be able to cross small bodies of water?  @MrAptronym @chu lol!   The dystopian future is gonna be lit. Gangs of techbros marauding around the suburbs in Cybertrucks, and little kids trying to dodge them while spraying them with garden hoses 😬  as one having owned a Trabant some decades ago I can tell you it's conceptually exactly what one would want when combining indivdualist transit for the whole population and some efficiency in production and maintenance: it didn't waste fuel on mass, was *completely* self-serviceable and could fit the transport needs of a small family. (fuel efficiency was only okay when regarding the simplicity of the engine)  @kami_kadse @chu I did in fact list it as such in the documentation of said Project / Concept...  @chu sauce : https://futurism.com/cybertruck-brick-car-wash :ablobreach:   @chu I guess they're just expecting that car washes won't exist in a post-apocalyptic world. That's actually reasonable.   @chu So that’s a “car” that’s incompatible with a “car wash”, right? The sheer stupidity of the modern age and its designers is breathtaking. @chu Norway has some of the highest ownership % by population of both EVs and Tesla's. Cybertrucks would neither be allowed on, nor survive our roads & weather if it can't handle a car wash :ms_laughing: @iamada @chu I also seriously hope it isn't legal here. Cars are death machines already, but this one is so sharp and heavy that if you got driven over by one it would almost guaranteed kill you. The electrification of cars was a mistake. We should've invested in public transit instead of increasing the weight (and hence the deadliness and road wear and tear) of vehicles. Personal cars should've been banned in cities and replaced with collectively owned cars for the times you do need one. @chu @chu @chu for a bet, I've gone through a carwash on a recumbent bike and both me and the bike came out unharmed (and I was a rotisserie chicken richer, too) it's cool to know that I - a disabled person and famously a massive whiny bitch - am more robust than a hundred thousand usd wankpanzer  @chu I love the category they've filed the story in - Cyber Paperweight / Advanced Transport genuine lol @chu Next advice : don‘t drive on rainy days.  |
@chu Thank you. I will never ever get sick of Cybertruck schadenfreude. Natural justice is my favourite kind of justice.