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Maybe controversial but green lasers and boxes of nails work p good at getting their attention (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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i once pulled up beside a person who was driving with their lights off, made eye contact, and did the little twisty turning-on-lights motion with my left hand, and about 5 seconds later they figured out what i meant and did it. it was like seeing a unicorn
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Wasabi the J posted:Maybe controversial but green lasers and boxes of nails work p good at getting their attention Maybe controversial but going to their house and raping their husband/wife while screaming TURN YOUR LIGHTS ON work p good at getting their attention (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) EDIT: Since it appears to have been lost on the mods and some posters, this post is criticizing Wasabi the J for acting like a road raging idiot. Hence including his bad grammar and stepping up the idiocy. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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CarForumPoster posted:Maybe controversial but going to their house and raping their husband/wife while screaming TURN YOUR LIGHTS ON work p good at getting their attention username/post combo checks out.
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Dec 28, 2021 22:14
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Lets keep it below a class A misdemeanor folks.
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Dec 28, 2021 22:46
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Elmnt80 posted:Lets keep it below a class A misdemeanor folks. I genuinely thought “what if just swerve at em a little bit”
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Dec 28, 2021 23:05
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GD_American posted:I genuinely thought “what if just swerve at em a little bit” Menacing in the third degree is a class B misdemeanor. Careful bud.
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Dec 28, 2021 23:09
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Sagebrush posted:i once pulled up beside a person who was driving with their lights off, made eye contact, and did the little twisty turning-on-lights motion with my left hand, and about 5 seconds later they figured out what i meant and did it. it was like seeing a unicorn this makes no sense. turning on headlights is a pulling-knob-out action 
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Wasabi the J posted:Oh God I can't remember the specific set of circumstances, but you just reminded me there was like a few year period my parents refused to let me watch Godzilla (1998). You can watch it with your dad once you become Chief Justice.
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Dec 29, 2021 11:31
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Speaking of brights: automatic high beams are loving awful in an urban or semi urban environment. There really needs to be a regulation that requires some sort of detection for that type of road (a certain density of streetlights, houses, dunno) and disable them. I've noticed it on a bunch of different makes but it is especially annoying now with Teslas because they now require auto high beams to be always enabled for like 95% of their driver assistance system to work since they ditched radar. Just constantly being completely blinded as a pedestrian.
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Shifty Pony posted:Speaking of brights: automatic high beams are loving awful in an urban or semi urban environment. There really needs to be a regulation that requires some sort of detection for that type of road (a certain density of streetlights, houses, dunno) and disable them. Or piss all that poo poo off and go manual. Lazy assholes everywhere.
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Raluek posted:this makes no sense. turning on headlights is a pulling-knob-out action They just turn on when dark, there's nothing to do? Shifty Pony posted:Speaking of brights: automatic high beams are loving awful in an urban or semi urban environment. Awful deal stuff: the auto high beams don't work in my car and the dealer said they couldn't diagnose it because it wasn't night/dark when I brought it in. Ghost Leviathan posted:You can watch it with your dad once you become Chief Justice. 
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The US finally approved adaptive headlights. Maybe in 25 years when they are standard everywhere we won't have this problem anymore?
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And it's terrible stuff because the cars are terrible. The news itself is good.quote:For Model S vehicles, latch problems may lead a front trunk to open "without warning and obstruct the driver’s visibility, increasing the risk of a crash," Tesla said. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recalls-over-475000-electric-vehicles-2021-12-30/
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Humphreys posted:And it's terrible stuff because the cars are terrible. The news itself is good. BUT ITS FULL SELF DRIVING THAT JUST SHOWS HOW GOOD FULL SELF DRIVING IS!! YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO SEE OUT THE FRONT, BECAUSE TESLAS HAVE FULL SELF DRIVING
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wesleywillis posted:BUT ITS FULL SELF DRIVING THAT JUST SHOWS HOW GOOD FULL SELF DRIVING IS!! YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO SEE OUT THE FRONT, BECAUSE TESLAS HAVE FULL SELF DRIVING Well you see, the camera is behind the windshield so even Genius Musk didn’t foresee this.
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How many cars do Tesla make per year? Also I read that Musk cashed out a bunch of stock options the day before this announcement? How is he not locked up?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:How many cars do Tesla make per year? Also I read that Musk cashed out a bunch of stock options the day before this announcement? How is he not locked up? I don't know if this is the specific case, but a bunch of his options were expiring incredibly deep into the money so he had to exercise at least some of them fairly recently.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:How many cars do Tesla make per year? Also I read that Musk cashed out a bunch of stock options the day before this announcement? How is he not locked up? He's rich. The only way you get locked up when you're rich is if you scam or blackmail other rich people. See Epstein and Madoff. As a rich person, this means he's an honest, trustworthy genius who can do no wrong. There's certainly no way that he suppressed the recall until after he sold.
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:He's rich. The only way you get locked up when you're rich is if you scam or blackmail other rich people. See Epstein and Madoff. See also (hopefully soon) Elizabeth Holmes.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:How many cars do Tesla make per year? Also I read that Musk cashed out a bunch of stock options the day before this announcement? How is he not locked up? He exercised a bunch of stock options, meaning he paid money to turn the options into stock (and sold some holdings to pay for the tax). I wouldn’t call that “cashing out”, and it’s not necessarily something that’s best done when stock prices are high anyway MetaJew posted:I don't know if this is the specific case, but a bunch of his options were expiring incredibly deep into the money so he had to exercise at least some of them fairly recently. But in the other hand it seems these options were actually expiring in August 2022; I’d guess it had more to do with end of tax year poo poo than anything else.
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I parked my 2004 CR-V on the street in front of my neighbor's house on Wednesday morning after I dropped my daughter off at school. I went out to put something in the front seat this morning and saw some stuff from my glove box and center console scattered around on the floor. I figured some neighborhood kids went rooting around for quarters. I went to go to the hardware store later in the morning and the exhaust was super loud and immediately stinky. Some rear end in a top hat stole the catalyst. And cut off the upstream (wideband) sensor and the downstream sensor. gently caress 2021. And gently caress the auto manufacturing and auto salvage industries for making this type of thing so easy and lucrative for thieves.
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Steve French posted:He exercised a bunch of stock options, meaning he paid money to turn the options into stock (and sold some holdings to pay for the tax). I wouldn’t call that “cashing out”, and it’s not necessarily something that’s best done when stock prices are high anyway How is exercising a call option at a lower strike price ever better? sure, you pay more in absolute terms but you made more in absolute terms and you get the lions share of every marginal dollar. that statement makes no sense.
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Shifty Pony posted:I've noticed it on a bunch of different makes but it is especially annoying now with Teslas because they now require auto high beams to be always enabled for like 95% of their driver assistance system to work since they ditched radar. Just constantly being completely blinded as a pedestrian. It’s really funny because yes, you have to have auto high beam on auto for AP, FSD, etc to work, but as soon as you engage AP/TACC/FSD, you can manually toggle the high beams to off. You have to do it every time you engage AP, which is pretty annoying, but it means that any Tesla drivers you see just letting the computer loving blind people are just assholes. They can choose to not be assholes, and are choosing to not bother. …Which is pretty on brand for most Tesla owners, actually.
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no lube so what posted:How is exercising a call option at a lower strike price ever better? I didn't say anything about the strike price. If you have ISOs with a strike price of $1, and plan to exercise and then hold, selling later at, say, $10, you may be better off exercising when the price is $2 than when it is $4, because the spread between strike price and FMV at time of exercise is considered income under AMT ($1 vs $3 in that scenario) whereas the rest of the gain isn't. poo poo is complicated and I don't claim to know Elon's financial situation in any amount of detail, so I won't make any claim that it was good or bad for him in that situation just saying that exercising options right before a price drop doesn't set off alarm bells in my head because there are plenty of scenarios where you'd rather exercise while the current price is low. Enough about taxes I'll go out and try to get a photo of a car in a snowbank to contribute content. Steve French fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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Elmnt80 posted:Lets keep it below a class A misdemeanor folks. Make them listen to old recordings of Prairie Home Companion.
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Well I didn’t find any cars in snowbanks but I did spot some various car pieces next to the railroad tracks at a level crossing. I figured there was a good story there but of course had no idea what it was. Later checked the local CHP Instagram (as one does…) and the story became clear https://www.instagram.com/chp_truckee/p/CYKqqoEvq1X/ 
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Is Elon Musk history's greatest monster? https://twitter.com/vecchitto/status/1478070396792590337?t=dOJJkgTOt-Yuc-iTiSUoqw&s=19
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PeterCat posted:Is Elon Musk history's greatest monster? Shouldn't the thermometers in the car know that there's a huge temperature differential from the outside and turn on the defrost automatically? And shouldn't the seats be smart enough to know that your butt is cold and turn on the seat warmers automatically? Maybe they can add some sort of probe to find the person's optimal butt temperature.
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Fully automatic seat heating by 2030
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Uthor posted:Shouldn't the thermometers in the car know that there's a huge temperature differential from the outside and turn on the defrost automatically? Do you want Elon's employees making that decision for you?
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PBCrunch posted:Do you want Elon's employees making that decision for you? Sorry your rear end Safety Score (A.S.S.) must be at least 0.46 points higher to activate seat warmers.
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Uthor posted:Maybe they can add some sort of probe to find the person's optimal butt temperature. Will this probe vibrate until it reaches optimal butt temperature? 
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Also, how deep does it go, if it does vibrate?
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"I never need to use those functions so I'm glad they're buried under multiple button presses" Are there any other car owners as dangerously loving stupid as Tesla owners? "you only need to go a menu deep to get the control you want (ignoring they relegated other features several menus deep)" I just press a single thing to get screen defrost in my 20+ year old car... Why has technology made this simple functionality more cumbersome to access when you have the power to just chuck an icon on the huge dumb loving touch screen? Heated seats are a single press too but you need to jab at a touchscreen several times? Dumb as gently caress. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Jan 4, 2022 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:"I never need to use those functions so I'm glad they're buried under multiple button presses" The disconnect is that Teslas are not sold as cars, they are lifestyle appliances. It's a completely different market. Anyone who knows anything about cars looks at the cost and knows just how much more than can get for that price and if they buy a Tesla willfully does so for whatever reasons. I guess to sit in an economy car interior with some flourishes while being able to say the own a Tesla. The rest are people who never owned a car/never owned a nice car so literally anything is better than the ford focus their parents gave them and have more money than time to figure out these things are not rationally priced and not built well. And I guess there's a bunch of meme/fanboys too. Don't get me wrong. I want a Tesla. A carefully wrecked one so I can gut the drivetrain out of it to put in something else. Just needs to come along at the right price.
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I dunno, the price thing depends on the market you're in. The Model 3 SR is the cheapest EV that would be capable of being an only vehicle for me, at least in this part of the world.
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You guys really like to go full internet male (aka 2/10 would not bang) about Tesla. I don't disagree at all about the UI/UX. I loving hate the lack of buttons and the fact I have to make more than one interaction with the display to turn on the seat heaters, activate the windshield wipers, etc. It's loving awful. With that said, at the time of buying our Model Y it still had some of the best range and most extensive charging network. When high speed charging locations become more ubiquitous I would consider a different manufacturer-- one that can actually design an interior. Lastly, the Audi Etron GT or Porsche Taycan wagon would be my first choice if it weren't for the fact that I just can't afford either of them. And don't get me started about Porsche's bullshit menu of building a car where you have to add $15,000 to the MSRP to get something like heated/cooled seats and oh, I don't know, probably a steering wheel or something. Similarly, for the bulk of my driving I would've bought a Honda E City when it came out, but they are not sold in the US. I think they're gorgeous.
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MetaJew posted:You guys really like to go full internet male (aka 2/10 would not bang) about Tesla. This is entirely my issue with the things, if interacting with the simplest controls has to be via a pointless tech interface instead of the very simple and far superior buttons and knobs then I'm really not going to enjoy being sat in the thing despite the pros of the way the rest of the car works/behaves. "but you'll get used to it!" the fans repeatedly say but why should you have to re-learn where controls are hiding when they've been standardised for decades? You're just re-inventing the wheel for the sake of it, to get cred from dipshits who don't know any better and are easily impressed.
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