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Robotaxi Drives Double the Speed Limit, Hits Speed Bumps at Full Speed… Tesla Influencers Describe It as “Excellent.” (fuelarc.com)

submitted 4 days ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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So, the Tesla Robotaxi rollout is going great and they are following all applicable local laws to autonomously drive safely. /s

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Double the Speed Limit, Hits Speed Bumps at Full Speed...Excellent

I remember a computer science professor telling us that he was once somewhere like New York City and was about to miss his flight and wasn't going to reasonably make it to the airport.

He decides to do a Hollywood-style "if you can get me to the airport in the next twenty minutes, there's X hundred dollars in it for you" to the first cab that pulled up. The prof says "The cabbie said okay and he got me there in time, and we didn't die, but I am never, ever doing that again."

Sometimes people might approve of that speed, though.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And just as he sped off, Push It to the Limit came on the radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOYuTOZ6Q0o

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I like that they still insist on using the name Twitter. It makes me sad when a media outlet gives up and starts calling it X.

Going with something like “X (formerly Twitter)” seems like a reasonable compromise.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

It's Twitter, because otherwise the language makes no damn sense.

What do you do on Twitter? You tweet your thoughts, as individual tweets.

Like, I don't call it X, because the branding has no internal logic, I don't know the words for how to refer to things on X.

Like, what would I do on X? I would X my thoughts as individual Xes? Axises? God, can't say Axis on Twitter, you'll get FAR too many neonazis liking your Axises. And if I want to close the window for X? I'll click on the X in the top right hand corner of X -- fuck, it's so confusing!

What the fuck -- they took the most recognizable short-form blogging language on earth, branding so ubiquitous that everyone intuitively understood it and used it reflexively, and rebranded it into a pile of internally inconsistent shit.

[–] Canigou@jlai.lu 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The source is a fake website with the only articles being about criticizing Tesla. I am not a fan of Tesla or Musk, to say the least, but this is no better than X's propaganda....

[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

You are a mod on the SpaceX board. How are you not a fan of Tesla or Musk?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

Watch the videos with your own eyes, don’t blindly believe billionaire propaganda. These machines are a violent manace.

[–] 467265654C75696769@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Tesla influenzas, lol

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Your ride will cost $150 and take 20 minutes. If you would like it to take ten minutes, please pay an additional liver.