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Unless Tesla is interested in adding social networking / messaging features to the car interface. It’s not hard to envision a potential business case

• acdha 4y ago
  That’s not “unless” - it’s a translate post hoc rationalization. It’s a stretch that they’d be working on that feature - considering the distracted driving problem it’s something of a liability - but even if they were, that might mean that you send a couple of people from that specific team to talk APIs or something. Pulling random engineers over to review things outside of their specialty doesn’t make any sense.
  • eclipxe 4y ago
    Not to be used while driving. Tesla has a bunch of built in apps not to be used while driving. Ex: TikTok and Netflix.
    • acdha 4y ago
      Yes, and people use them while driving because the vehicle doesn’t prevent it. You can get away with that kind of legal attempt to dodge responsibility but at some point public awareness catches up with you, similar to how telling people to drive safely wasn’t enough to avoid generations of safety technology becoming legally required.
      • eclipxe 4y ago
        That's not true, the car does prevent it.
        • acdha 4y ago
          Maybe it’s easy to disable? The guys I see commuting to work with action movies on those giant dashboard TVs are all driving Teslas.
• devnulll 4y ago
  Great, next my car will be Tweeting all the real time telemetry (I405 North, by exit 18, lane #1, 81mph, throttle at 61%, 4 hands-off-steering-wheel events detected in the last hour, and 2 eye tracking sync failures due to checking out the sports car in lane #2". Musk, being Musk, will find this amusing and start auto-tweeting "Kill" videos of Tesla's racing with other cars on the freeway."104 Z06 kills on the West Coast Today!".
  • shapefrog 4y ago
    I405 North, by exit 18, lane #1, 81mph, throttle at 61% - by the end of the year this car will be able to take drive using self driving Self tweeting coming soon - self driving by the end of next year.
• deaddodo 4y ago
  It doesn’t work that way. Period. Musk’s job as CEO is to work in the best interests of the company. Using the company's resources to buy/build a completely unrelated entity for his personal gain is most definitely not ok. If he wanted to do what you’re saying (enrich Tesla with those features), Tesla should be buying Twitter. The scenario you're presenting, by the way, is exactly how Facebook/Meta acquired Instagram. However Facebook acquired Instagram, not Zuckerberg personally.
  • eclipxe 4y ago
    Who is going to stop him? No one. Nothing matters anymore.
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  • wyclif 4y ago
    Apparently it's completely legal, though (IANAL). It's just like being a contractor on the side.
    • deaddodo 4y ago
      Elon Musk didn't commit a criminal offense here, no. No one is claiming he has. But he almost certainly acted against the interests of the company he was hired to shepard and committed a civil offense against the shareholders.
      • ekianjo 4y ago
        For sure the tesla stock is going to plunge because a few guys took time off to come assess twitter...
      • karencarits 4y ago
        Unless the Tesla engineers also can learn a thing or two from the internals of Twitter and bring back to benefit Tesla. Or they are planning to do things that will benefit both parties in the long run