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`Nemesis posted:just imagine the thrill of throwing a car battery that big into the ocean, those dicks at Autozone don't even know yet Hybrids have been around for 20 years, you don't think they've dumped dead Prius batteries overboard yet?
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Nenonen posted:You just fill the tunnel with sand and pay Boring Company to make a new tunnel next to it, bing bang bong Nonsense, this is Vegas! Just leave it burning and you have the next Centralia and sell tickets.
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From the lower the road school of engineering, what if we take every existing Tesla and put it in a coffin in the ground now while we are ahead.
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That would be unamerican. The capitalists have to salt the earth before we can gather it all to put into a hole in the ground.
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A fleet of SpaceX rockets standing by to deliver a payload of sand with pinpoint precision to anywhere on the planet within minutes, airspace deconfliction and giving the Russian strategic rocket forces a quick heads up prior to launch available at a slight surcharge.
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If you put demolition charges every few hundred yards the Tesla Fire Tunnel becomes self-extinguishing. Just collapse the tunnel segment and smother the burning vehicles. I'll concede there may be some property subsidence/damage issues to deal with post collapsing a tunnel under LA, but I'm confident we can blue-sky our way to a solution to that one too. Perhaps instead we fill the tunnel section with a quick solidifying foam?
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darkwasthenight posted:If you put demolition charges every few hundred yards the Tesla Fire Tunnel becomes self-extinguishing. Just collapse the tunnel segment and smother the burning vehicles. Lithium fires burn hot enough to melt most components of concrete and the tunnel will work as a blast furnace to crank it up even more.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Lithium fires burn hot enough to melt most components of concrete and the tunnel will work as a blast furnace to crank it up even more.
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What city has the most tesla fires annually? I need a test bed to innovate my sand car dumpster fire extinguisher within, and also charge the city FD $50k to dispatch per dumpster box. I'll truck the remnants to some Nevada shithole so no one has to see it, so Reno.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Hybrids have been around for 20 years, you don't think they've dumped dead Prius batteries overboard yet? the bigger the battery, the bigger the thrill
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aphid_licker posted:A fleet of SpaceX rockets standing by to deliver a payload of sand with pinpoint precision to anywhere on the planet within minutes, airspace deconfliction and giving the Russian strategic rocket forces a quick heads up prior to launch available at a slight surcharge. this but they are equipped with grappling hooks and pick up the Tesla and drop it into the ocean (and explode themselves)
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darkwasthenight posted:I'll concede there may be some property subsidence/damage issues to deal with post collapsing a tunnel under LA, but I'm confident we can blue-sky our way to a solution to that one too. Perhaps instead we fill the tunnel section with a quick solidifying foam? Reinforce the tunnels with steel beams and then fill them with jet fuel to put out fires.
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at the end of freshman year, some friends noticed that the dumpsters had a lot of furniture in them. they waited until most of the campus had cleared out, then set up 4 or 5 spotters and a very clear system of communication to keep anybody from getting killed. or arrested. then they took a series of pieces of furniture, up to the size of a small couch, and dropped them off the 3rd-floor dorm balcony. the furniture explosions were fun, nobody got hurt, and they picked up all the pieces. a few years after we all graduated, some kids were having a spitting contest off the same balcony and one guy managed to fall off during that.
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PostNouveau posted:Looking this up and ran into: I bet it's something petty like all the door handle designs being patented IP and not wanting to pay royalties out of spite.
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Babe Magnet posted:I own the patent for car door handles, you're not allowed to use them without my permission I don't give a drat.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kck1BpRwU4k&t=399s Nenonen fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Apr 18, 2021 |
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https://wtop.com/dc-transit/2021/04/sketchy-future-for-elon-musk-inspired-d-c-to-baltimore-tunnel/ His Tesla tunnel in DC seems dead at least.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://wtop.com/dc-transit/2021/04/sketchy-future-for-elon-musk-inspired-d-c-to-baltimore-tunnel/ The big unveiling of the Las Vegas tunnel was met with a lot of laughing and pointing. I think people are catching on as to how ridiculous the idea was in the first place.
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Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:I bet it's something petty like all the door handle designs being patented IP and not wanting to pay royalties out of spite. you can't patent a regular old door handle; all the common, simple designs are decades (or centuries) old prior art by this point. the tesla handle they're talking about is the one on the Model S where it sits flush against the door normally and pops out with a little servomotor automatically when you unlock the car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thaX-h4oTTI elon really really wanted this stupid feature because it's ~technology~ i guess and that's what they're talking about. it's unbelievably complicated and 90 percent of the video results for "tesla model s door handle" are about repairing them or replacing the components because the plastic gears inside strip out and they break and it's just all stupid as poo poo. for the model 3, they went with a cheaper version of the same concept, where the handle is flush and you push on one end and the other end pops out and you pull on that part. this at least is a purely mechanical design without all the motors and electronics. however it comes with its own problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauVg7zvpPQ Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Apr 18, 2021 |
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Cartoon Man posted:https://wtop.com/dc-transit/2021/04/sketchy-future-for-elon-musk-inspired-d-c-to-baltimore-tunnel/ What I don't get is why people believed it would be anything useful in the first place. Did they look at the tunnel he made and think it was just a first try and that the finished version would really look like the fancy video? It was clearly the best they could do and Elon thought what he did was a finished product.
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Deteriorata posted:The big unveiling of the Las Vegas tunnel was met with a lot of laughing and pointing. I think people are catching on as to how ridiculous the idea was in the first place. I watched a video of someone going through that stupid thing and I was all "Who the gently caress greenlit this?" Then I found out it was a Musk product (I had been doing my best to ignore anything Musk) and I was all "Oh this makes so much sense".
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Cojawfee posted:What I don't get is why people believed it would be anything useful in the first place. Did they look at the tunnel he made and think it was just a first try and that the finished version would really look like the fancy video? It was clearly the best they could do and Elon thought what he did was a finished product.
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Sagebrush posted:you can't patent a regular old door handle; all the common, simple designs are decades (or centuries) old prior art by this point. the tesla handle they're talking about is the one on the Model S where it sits flush against the door normally and pops out with a little servomotor automatically when you unlock the car. I believe other makers do flush door handles like that. But Tesla also has electronic interior door handles with a manual override. You're supposed to use the electronic ones because they roll down the window slightly and the mechanical ones could cause damage because they don't. https://electrek.co/2020/08/04/tesla-tiny-change-model-y/
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Uthor posted:I believe other makers do flush door handles like that. The interior ones (at least the ones I'd seen a couple years ago) were also recessed and somewhat hidden in the door which is even more loving insane than hiding the outside ones.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://wtop.com/dc-transit/2021/04/sketchy-future-for-elon-musk-inspired-d-c-to-baltimore-tunnel/ oh good, we can focus on the OTHER pointless techno grift project for DC to Baltimore transit, Hogan's loving maglev you know, while cancelling the red line, letting the purple line die from lovely contracting for the builder, and just... refusing to expand existing MARC commuter trains like a sane person would gently caress hogan so very much for making a maglev, of all things, suck
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Clearly the answer is that Teslas should be required to have airframe parachutes.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Clearly the answer is that Teslas should be required to have airframe parachutes. The parachutes are incredibly useful when they suddenly lower the road.
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KoRMaK posted:i think thats all of them Last I knew the other ones you mostly had to pull covers off the doors to manually pull a cable that would release the door latch, but the Model 3 rear seats have absolutely no manual reversion to open the doors if electrical power is lost. I'm sure it's really easy to remember how to open the doors manually in an emergency situation or to climb up into the front seats from the rear seats, and it shouldn't be a big deal anyways as long as you never have a battery fire.
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Doesn't the Model 3 have an emergency manual release wire for the rear doors, but to get to it, you have to literally rip off the interior door panel? Were I trapped in a burning Muskmobile, I would certainly have the strength - presence of mind is another matter entirely. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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PainterofCrap posted:Doesn't the Model 3 have an emergency manual release wire for the rear doors, but to get to it, you have to literally rip off the interior door panel? The Model S and X have methods for accessing a wire by ripping the interior apart. The 3 does not have any method to open the rear doors if the door handles don't work.
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PainterofCrap posted:Doesn't the Model 3 have an emergency manual release wire for the rear doors, but to get to it, you have to literally rip off the interior door panel? You thinking of the Model X. Model S rear door release: pull up interior carpet to expose the release wire. Model X rear door release: disassemble the rear speaker grill to expose the release wire Model 3 rear door release: there is no mechanical release. If the front doors are damaged and won’t open you need to climb out through the trunk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01lXcD_Uz74
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(The Model Y uses the same system [none] as the Model 3)
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FCKGW posted:You thinking of the Model X. This is somehow a great analogy for libertarianism in general.
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Here’s someone demonstrating how to exit the Model X with the emergency pull. The doors are also heavy as poo poo and are very difficult to open without power assist. Good luck doing all that in a fire or in a lake! https://youtu.be/nHHWv6uMISg
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What pisses me off the most about it is the thought that someone could have a kid in a child seat in the rear, and be absolutely unable to do anything if the car lost electrical power. I've come to the belief that electric cars are practical for certain use cases, I just wish someone would design them safely EvenWorseOpinions fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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FCKGW posted:Here’s someone demonstrating how to exit the Model X with the emergency pull. The doors are also heavy as poo poo and are very difficult to open without power assist. Good luck doing all that in a fire or in a lake! "Well that definitely seems like a problem for other people, but I don't plan on getting into any accidents!"  CaptainSarcastic posted:This is somehow a great analogy for libertarianism in general.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:"Well that definitely seems like a problem for other people, but I don't plan on my Tesla auto pilot getting into any accidents!" Fixed.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:What pisses me off the most about it is the thought that someone could have a kid in a child seat in the rear, and be absolutely unable to do anything if the car lost electrical power. Lol there are tons of safe electric cars that exist and are sold Tesla is just a high profile scam for rich idiots
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