• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      In a near future press conference - Elon is angry and he finally goes ballistic.

      “Listen and understand. The car is automated. It is automated. How many times must I say this. It is automated! For quality control the car is monitored by the Tesla Monitoring Center in Bangalore.”

      A reporter yells out " ‘Monitoring’ includes driving, right?"

      “That is a lie! You little ffff—” and somehow Elon gets himself not to call the reporter a “fucker”. But he starts storming off the stage like a Stormtrooper and with his back is to the reporters he’s yells “It is automated!”

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      Later in the middle of the night Tesla issues a terse press release saying little more than: “For quality control the car is monitored by the Tesla Monitoring Center in Bangalore. Such control may include navigation management and adjustments…”

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    he unveils new shit years before it turns out to be a fuck-up or a lie (rooftop solar tiles, tesla semi, cybertruck, eventually the tesla bot, hyperloop, etc)

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    8 months ago

    Is this…

    No, it couldn’t be…

    Is this a dogwhistle?

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    Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop

    • Tesla will reveal its robotaxi product on Aug. 8, CEO Elon Musk said in a social media post on X.

    • Musk has spoken about the robotaxi project for years, and it could represent a major new business for the carmaker as investors grow wary of the company during a period of slowing growth.

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    In 2015, Elon Musk told shareholders that Tesla’s cars would achieve “full autonomy” within three years. In 2016, he said Tesla would able to send one of its cars on a cross-country drive without requiring any human intervention by the end of the following year.

    Tesla still has yet to deliver a robotaxi, autonomous vehicle or technology that can turn its cars into “level 3” automated vehicles. However, Tesla offers advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), including a standard Autopilot option or premium Full Self-Driving “FSD” option, the latter of which costs $199 per month for U.S. subscribers or $12,000 upfront.

    In a push for end-of-quarter sales, Musk recently mandated that all sales and service staff install and demo FSD for customers before handing over the keys. He wrote in an email to employees, “Almost no one actually realizes how well (supervised) FSD actually works. I know this will slow down the delivery process, but it is nonetheless a hard requirement.”

    Despite its name, Tesla’s premium option requires a human driver at the wheel, ready to steer or brake at any moment.

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      premium Full Self-Driving “FSD” option, the latter of which costs $199 per month for U.S. subscribers or $12,000 upfront

      so the idiots reading a book on the freeway are also paying through the nose to do it

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    Took a lot of restraint to not call it the robotaxi X or something insufferable like that.

    Side note, doing the Will Menaker bit of calling the Tesla Model X the “Tesla Model ten” really annoys Elon stans. “Well there’s a model 3, I assume the model 10 is 7 better?”. So far a 1 out of 1 success rate. Will continue doing so when interacting with people who drive the model 10.