I mean fine, but these people have no convictions whatsoever. What a bunch of spineless shills.
On the balance, this is speeding the adoption of EVs.
I’ve been able to sell them (not Teslas, EVs in general) to my right-wing coworkers by simply talking about their performance characteristics. Electric motors outperform combustion engines and so these cars feel powerful while driving.
If the right’s talking heads want to own the libs by making their identity based around electric vehicles, it doesn’t bother me.
Russian assets stick together.
Wait, are conservatives supposed to love electric cars or hate them? Their audience must be getting whiplash from that about-face, no? Or does this prove that they are easily led without questioning anything?
For a whiplash one needs a spine
If not for doublethink, they wouldn’t think at all.
Yeah, I wonder if they’re really going to switch from loud trucks to quiet electric cars. In a way it would be good, although I really don’t want Musk to get even more money.
option two
Why is a vehicle with 1000HP and 0-60 in 2 seconds street legal.
That sounds like it would be fun to go to a race track and race in a controlled environment, but when is that ever needed in a city?
Electric motors are incredibly high performance. Those numbers sound extreme for a combustion engine but that kind of performance is pretty standard for electric motors.
Performance limitations are usually added via software to prevent battery wear and for safety reasons.
They could go 0-60 in .5 seconds but there’s only so much traction you can get out of rubber tires.
I understand that. I am saying we should have regulations and governors on all cars. No car driven in a city ever needs to accelerate that fast and should not be street legal if it can.
0-60 in a road car would be near impossible because, like you mentioned, you wouldn’t have the traction for it.
Top fuel dragsters tend to do their 0-60 in about 0.8-0.9 seconds and that’s using extremely specialized tires on a specifically prepped track surface and they are still traction limited.
The fastest EV 0-60 (as far as I could find) was a Formula Student car called Mythen WR at 0.956 seconds. It hit 62mph in 40ft. Also it was driven by a woman.
Edit: I was doing some more reading about top fuel dragsters and the fastest 0-60 time (which was approximately 0.8 sec, they don’t actually measure it) came from Brittany Force’s (which is a crazy cool name) 1000ft run at the 2019 Las Vegas run. She ran the 1000ft in just 3.695 seconds and crossed the line at 338.17 mph. There’s a video in my link too, it’s crazy to watch. For you Europeans that’s hitting just shy of 550 kmph in just over 300m
People worry about giving robots with ai guns. Where are such outspoken people with statistics when we equip a four-wheeled sedan that weighs the same as a building that can accelerate faster than you can think the ability to control itself? Maybe you can have self driving guns too, does it make it ethically better to just skip the robot?
Also: who the hell am I supposed to take to court after getting maimed by one of these? Technically the operator isnt at fault if the autonomous system chooses to hit me instead of something else. Im certain the insurance companies have already found a weaselly loophole to avoid contingency in this case. I feel like we are gonna have to get back into the legislative idea of making manufacturers responsible for their product failures.
It drives me nuts when people say those things are self-driving. Too many people believe that already.
Privately sold my Tesla M3 about 3 years ago, and it had the FSD package.
Guy was buying for his mom (he was driving a MB G Wagon) - and said he wanted the FSD because his mom couldn’t drive.
“Buddy, I got news for you, neither can FSD”
At this point, the ones still believing that they’re self driving, I’m not gonna shed a tear when they get maimed while finding out they were wrong.
I’m gonna shed a tear, though, when other people get maimed while these dipshits find out they were wrong.
Imagine counter-protesting the poor citizenry by donating a ton of money to the richest man in the world
Even if I wanted a Tesla I wouldn’t buy one because I’d be afraid it would get vandalized. So you know…. Good. That’s how it should be.
Up until now, I’ve only considered Cybertrucks to be a reliable indicator of a Nazi sympathizer, as that’s the only model that came out after Musk’s turn to villainy became undeniably obvious. But if they’re gonna start a trend of Nazis buying all Tesla models then I guess they all become fair game. Sucks to be an existing Tesla owner who bought before they were fascist, but oh well.
