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by spikels 3y ago
Or 6
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by spikels 3y ago
Most people don’t understand this. They are so used to going to gas stations that they think they will have to regularly go to charging stations. All that time wasted refueling simply goes away as your car gets “fueled up” while you sleep.
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by spikels 3y ago
Tesla has been publishing quarterly accident stats for it’s cars using Autopilot and not using it since 2018 here: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport It’s around 1 accident every 5 million miles while using Autopilot
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Biographer Walter Isaacson interviewed on his Elon Musk book(twitter.com)
2 points by spikels 3y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 3y ago
Source: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1mnGeRQBwZNJX Always remember that Business Insider was co-founded and still run by Henry Blodget, a man kicked off lying and cheating Wall Street for lying and cheating too mu
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by spikels 3y ago
So is Reddit
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by spikels 3y ago
Reminds me of AWS. Take a key component your business, open it up to outsiders, and turn it into a profit center. Tesla has clearly been working towards this for years.
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by spikels 3y ago
The CCS plug is a terrible design - both expensive and hard to use. Now that Ford and GM have decided to switch to Tesla's NACS plug - it will be the only plug on their vehicle in North America - other manufacturers and suppliers are s
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by spikels 3y ago
It’s a car following system for traffic jams on pre-approved limited access highways. That’s why it also requires other cars nearby.
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by spikels 3y ago
Troll article commented on by forum trolls
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by spikels 3y ago
It’s not available to consumers and only works on a few pre-mapped highways a low speeds (i.e. traffic jams). This is a nothingburger.
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by spikels 3y ago
The MB system will only in traffic jams on a handful of pre-mapped highways in Nevada. Not available to consumers yet. This is a purely regulatory achievement.
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by spikels 3y ago
Teslas are now cheaper than the average care in the US after rebates. Average car price is around $48k. The Model 3 starts around $37k and the Model Y starts around $43 with current federal rebates (state and local rebates may reduce price
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by spikels 3y ago
Oh, how naive HN has become.
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by spikels 3y ago
He predicted it would launch 4/20 and it launched 4/20. So current factor is 1x.
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by spikels 4y ago
“Payment verification” is a big part of the rationale behind the $8/mo plan. According to Musk bot accounts on Twitter cost less than a cent to create. This plan increases their cost more than 800X per month. He explained this at an in
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by spikels 4y ago
Appears that that Birdwatch was removed. I assume this was from people rating it after it appeared and the annual versus lifetime error was found. Deaths per X miles traveled is the standard metric. Deaths per hour would be a very strange w
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by spikels 4y ago
Little known fact: In Western Europe when they decided to prioritize the passenger train network it forced 80-90% freight onto trucks on roads.
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by spikels 4y ago
This is probably a good model for the future of public transit. We use large buses because of the high cost of drivers. For less popular routes and times it currently doesn’t make sense but self-driving mini-buses would. At least in SF ther
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by spikels 4y ago
Twitter is demanding "specific performance" (i.e. complete the transaction) which is unrealistic given those financing provisions. No court can force all the other parties to close. No financing, no transaction.
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by spikels 4y ago
Then you might like mainland Chinese crime movies. My two favs: - Black Coal, Thin Ice - Ash Is Purest White
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SpaceX's Starship rocket project can continue in South Texas, FAA review finds(space.com)
6 points by spikels 4y ago|1 comments
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by spikels 4y ago
Was typing almost the same thing at the same time. The OEMs want to us EVs to finally dump the dealerships.
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by spikels 4y ago
Ford reorganized back in March so that their EV business (Model e) is separate from the legacy ICE business (Ford Blue). There was speculation at the time that this was in part free itself of the dealership sales model. The dealers would ke
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by spikels 4y ago
> This means principle over loyalty This is the essence of the problem. Human nature favors loyalty but human progress requires principals.
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by spikels 4y ago
Twitter has been very poorly run. They will enhance business mostly by improving the service (features, etc), reworking the business model (subscriptions, payments, etc) and cut it’s ridiculously bloated budget. In a few years it will be cl
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by spikels 4y ago
> Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users Elon Musk - May 3rd 2022 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1521630589710872576
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by spikels 4y ago
I don’t think this is correct.
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by spikels 4y ago
Unfortunately paywalled and not sure which Levine article you mean. Edit: And as best I can tell Levine has been wrong on this situation at every step…
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by spikels 4y ago
He has a tiny stake and can’t increase it. Therefore Jack has negligible power at this point.

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