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by Fins 9y ago
Calling Model 3 a luxury vehicle is rather a stretch. Even Model S lacks things Hyundai one third the price has. While no other company can come close to Tesla in selling half-baked (or altogether nonexistent) stuff to the gullible, packagi
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by Fins 9y ago
Hmm, pretty sure I had a mattress delivered in a box back in 2007-8 and it was neither of those. Was a perfectly fine mattress, too.
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by Fins 9y ago
Right. I got a boxed mattress back in 2007 or 2008, from a place imaginatively called bedinabox or somesuch. It was a fraction of Casper price, too.
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by Fins 9y ago
But then, before the Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet, lamaism was not what I would call a particularly kind and peaceful thing.
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by Fins 9y ago
Yes, sure, everybody is lying, only Saint Elon tells the truth. To go straight to the source, http://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/50/1/1 And we are talking about older cars that mi
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by Fins 9y ago
If that extra driving averages to only 3 miles a day it might as well be explained by people in SFBA (Tesla's major market as I understand) just not being able to afford to live within a reasonable commuting distance.
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by Fins 9y ago
Well, that certainly does say quite a bit about the mentality of Tesla buyers, who are willing to pay a few extra grand for something that not only does not exist, but may not even ever exist. And hell, they aren't even paying for an
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by Fins 9y ago
Alas, there were statistics posted here on HN in one of the Tesla accident threads [0]. And these were even for cars older than Tesla, cheaper than Tesla, and selling possibly order of magnitude more vehicles (quite possible for Hondas and
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by Fins 9y ago
But what does it have to do with there being quite a few (better selling, cheaper) models with 0 fatalities? Hell, cruise control in a Hyundai actually alarms and brakes if you try to drive into a stationary object. But they don't have
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by Fins 9y ago
Then why does Tesla, on their order page offer this? >> Full Self-Driving Capability >> This doubles the number of active cameras from four to eight, enabling full self-driving in almost all circumstances, at what we believe wil
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by Fins 9y ago
Certainly your right. Alas, no financial involvement with Tesla either way. Also, it is a very expensive golf cart, although less comfortable than some.
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by Fins 9y ago
I find it hard to believe that people who can afford a Tesla are that concerned about the price of gas.
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by Fins 9y ago
While one could argue that Tesla drivers are, indeed, less picky than people who paid $60K+ for a real luxury car (if they were equally picky, one look at Tesla's build quality and they'd be off to a BMW dealership or something)..
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by Fins 9y ago
If by "unusable" you mean that they actually work, and do not actively try to kill you, then yes, that's what they have. Tesla's system is exactly the same thing, except that it is marketed as some fancy "autopilot&
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by Fins 9y ago
If anything, now FB won't even be able to say that "it was all Zuck's fault, Zuck's the bad one". No, they are rotten to the core.
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by Fins 9y ago
Because it is Panasonic's manufacturing, probably?
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by Fins 9y ago
No opinion whether Tesla will or won't fail, but driving behind a Model S you can see that it was assembled by people who would not get a job at a Yugo factory. Model S levels of quality is... not impressive.
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by Fins 9y ago
Can you be isolated to a testing serv^H^H^H^H roads?
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by Fins 9y ago
Which only says that they are good at solving artificial puzzles, but nothing about whether they are good developers or generally intelligent.
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by Fins 9y ago
Doesn't that have something to do with government mandates and subsidies for adding ethanol to fuel? It could have been well used for something more important.
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by Fins 9y ago
Interestingly, it is always assumed that problems with capitalism are systemic, but communism... they just didn't try quite right.
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by Fins 9y ago
It's a fair point, but there were quite a few countries (starting with China) that that refused Soviet influence (often, because they considered it not sufficiently communist) and went their own way. They didn't succeed at buildin
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by Fins 9y ago
Isn't this a rather classic "whataboutism"? I don't think anybody here (not me, certainly) is arguing that capitalism is perfect and without a single flaw. But nevertheless any real-world implementations of socialism alw
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by Fins 9y ago
Historically, they will also be the ones who still lose in the end.
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by Fins 9y ago
But isn't it at least a little bit curious that any and everyone trying to implement it did an equally terrible job?
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by Fins 9y ago
Well, an option, as an option on Model 3, yeah. Can't quite buy it. In any case, yes, it seems that it is more available now than I thought. Now if it only felt as a 70K+ car...
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by Fins 9y ago
And there we were, thinking that "well, but California has good roads!". On/off ramps on 101 aren't that great now either (try getting on at Trimble and getting off on 87 at rush hour). But given that people manage to dr
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by Fins 9y ago
A/B testing of link colors if fine, of course. Manipulating users' emotions -- not so much. Interfering in elections, without proper disclosure, and providing data of people who did not agree to it to support just one side -- yes,
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by Fins 9y ago
Starting with that he invented (or stole, or something) FB? That he ran psychological experiments on unsuspecting users? That even before this election he did allow one side fart greater access than what would be allowed to the other? That
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by Fins 9y ago
But with auto insurance, if you're a bad driver, or even a driver with perceived higher risk (teen, unmarried, driving a little red sports car) your rates will be quite a bit higher. If you're a low risk driver, your rates are low

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