• EndOfLine@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    3 hours ago

    Has he tried swasticar? I’ve been hearing allot of grassroots buzz around that name in the last few months.

  • WanderingThoughts
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    3 hours ago

    Oh no, Musk has to find a good name by himself instead of buying a premade brand.

  • DarkWinterNights@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    3 hours ago

    Even if there were a lineup of these ready to go at the airport, I’d still wait 10 minutes and pay $20 more for literally anything else.

  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    7 hours ago

    They won’t even last very long on the roads. Either they will crash, blow up, or be vandalized by the public. I know for a fact that I will destroy them from within if I ever see one. The easiest and quickest way will be walk up to one and before the passenger gets in toss in some fart spray, that shit could total a car since it is almost impossible to remove from fabric.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      47 minutes ago

      You shouldn’t promote vandalism, vandalism is wrong.
      Unless of course it’s some asshole that really really REALLY deserves it…??

      Never mind carry on.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      45 minutes ago

      It’s probably the actual issue. How can they only now discover right before launch, that there are trademark issues?

      • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        13 minutes ago

        Because there isn’t a trademark conflict, it’s just too generic of a term to get trademarked in the first place, but it took seven months for USPTO to process the application.

        “Tesla applied for the trademark in October 2024 on the same day that it revealed the Cybercab.”

        • Buffalox@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 minute ago

          OK that sounds like a somewhat weird decision. Considering we Have things like Microsoft “Windows”, and “Exastore” which are both 100% generic words.

          Still why didn’t they trademark the words years ago, since Tesla has been planning on this for years?

  • NotAGamer@lemmy.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    6 hours ago

    Tesla’s going to make Uber and Lyft lots of money as people reject Tesla’s services.

    • Pfeffy@lemmy.world
      cake
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      6 hours ago

      That makes no sense. Why would they make more money than they do now? It’s not like this is going to increase demand.