AARD VARKMAN posted:

he looks like a DreamWorks pre render or some poo poo lol

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

He looks to me like Marv after getting caught in several of Kevin's traps.

AARD VARKMAN posted:

he looks like a DreamWorks pre render or some poo poo lol

E the Shaggy posted:

Is it me or is he looking a little weirder than normal?

https://twitter.com/Wissing/status/1610711190098923520?s=20&t=1kT35Q1267wYSt3yEb3AFg

Azhais posted:

Paracausal posted:

Turns out many of those who took the opportunity to jump ship are still awaiting severance packages
https://twitter.com/sbstryker/status/1610760987996749824?t=8jvERZQljQg0-iIMkf2RLQ&s=19

AARD VARKMAN posted:

he looks like he's going to start gobbling up sugar water soon

E the Shaggy posted:

Is it me or is he looking a little weirder than normal?

https://twitter.com/Wissing/status/1610711190098923520?s=20&t=1kT35Q1267wYSt3yEb3AFg

AARD VARKMAN posted:

he looks like poo poo, and I hate him

AARD VARKMAN posted:

he looks like poo poo, and I hate him

Steadiman posted:

His facial hair is really starting to bother me. He should invest in shaving mirror or get it done professionally or something. That patchy stubble is in every drat picture I see of him

Entropic posted:

Is there a source for the "cybertruck won't have airbags" story that isn't just that one article on "https://rechargd.com/" which appears to be a clickfarm site that posts random crap related to EVs while never citing any sources?

Entropic posted:

Is there a source for the "cybertruck won't have airbags" story that isn't just that one article on "https://rechargd.com/" which appears to be a clickfarm site that posts random crap related to EVs while never citing any sources?

CharlestheHammer posted:

I like how people have just decided something is untrue based on nothing.

Goon contrarian nature i suppose


We get it your super special now go away

Flowers for QAnon posted:

Are you claiming no airbags is a true story about an imaginary product? Please clarify

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

Tesla is in the S&P 500.
What do you think the S&P ETFs that nearly everyone has as part of their 401(k)s owns?
Vanguard is the second largest stakeholder of TSLA.

Halisnacks posted:

Don’t they?

What’s the difference between people dumping shares in Tesla when they miss sales targets and people dumping shares in [another company] when they miss sales targets? In both cases the management of those companies might be disinclined to make productive long-term investments or inclined to reduce their cost base so they can pleasantly surprise with next quarter’s profits. In Tesla’s case they may deprioritise safety/QA (even more so); this would have real world consequences.

Obviously a Tesla investor should have cashed out in November 2021, but if some true believers choose to stay invested for several more years or even decades why is that such a bad thing?

FirstnameLastname posted:

vehicular forensics is pretty straightforward, especially in a car with 360° camera coverage, a telemetry suite and cabin recorded audio

assuming no telemetry or recording though:
first off: blood test to check for intoxicants/diabetic shock, if they're sober and functional, that mostly rules out something like this being unintentional, but not always ofc, and a drunk person can also intentionally attempt suicide, but a sober person in clear driving conditions during the day with a vehicle in working order will very rarely get into a single vehicle accident of this kind unintentionally unless they're doing some dumb poo poo and going way too fast or fuckin' with their phone.
phone is easy to check, speed of vehicle is evident from how far it went off the road or also phone gps data

intentional crash scenes and accidental ones normally look very different - lack of tread on the road will narrow it down a lot because intentional crashes -usually- won't have a loss of control before leaving the road, so no treadmarks, but can also mean the driver was intoxicated or otherwise unable to operate their vehicle or even hit a patch of ice/oil

Treadpath & ejected particulate on softer surfaces can indicate if a car was accelerating, decelerating, or holding a steady speed on leaving the road surface, especially right at the edge of the road where the engine is putting full power to the wheels and then they abruptly hit dirt/gravel.

Inexperienced drivers, the most likely to lose control of a vehicle and be unable to regain it before impact, will pretty much never put their foot on the gas in a loss of control situation, and usually will mash the brakes with all of their might, often trying to steer away at the same time.
That'll leave distinctive snakey tirepaths in on loose surfaces, even if they kept going in a straight direction, and ABS activation stutter-stop tread marks on solid road.

Intentional crashes don't decelerate before impact, and with suicide attempts, they're usually floored.

hard-accelerating vehicles on loose surfaces usually generate some wheel spin that will spray dirt/gravel like a roostertail and/or leave signs of TCS activation, and the indentation of the tread can tell you if you vehicle was speeding up or slowing down. If it's slowing down, the tread will be compacted forward because the car is trying to decelerate and shoving weight down into the front tires. If it's accelerating, the tread will be compacted in the opposite direction of travel


impact position & overall traj. is another tell, intentional wrecks will pretty much always be a straight line from the road to the center of their target, people learn to drive by centering their car in a lane, centering it in a parking spot, it's natural & intuitive.

If someone's going to intentionally run a car off a section cliff, into a wall, whether it's to attempt suicide or for insurance fraud or just ruining someone's car, they'll generally aim for the center of the section they're approaching, and they will not change their direction of travel or try to once they've left the road.

If they do, it will look distinctly different from genuine attempts to regain control because there'll be much more evidence of direct steering input and less of things like heavy suspension rebounding, fishtailing, unnecessary inputs, overcorrection, conflicting inputs (i.e. rapidly steering right, left, right repeatedly)

Angle of impact/takeoff also tells you a lot. it'll also almost always be a 90° angle between vehicle path and obstruction/ledge. Suicide attempts will sometimes be angled towards the driver's side some, attempts of just wrecking a car without loving yourself up will often be angled the other way, in the direction of the passenger side.

Very very rarely will an intentional high speed (>30mph) collision hit at a shallow angle unless it's almost parallel and just trying to shred the side of the car against something. It's usually at least 45° and closer to 90°

unintentional wrecks will, if the driver is aware/able, have veering, swerving, signs of
rapid attempted braking/accel/steering input between the edge of the road and the collision, and will hit much more often at shallow angles and on the edges of things, it won't be a clean path

Both because intentional attempts usually aren't made that way, and because the shallower your angle of approach, the less apparent movement and higher likelihood you won't notice if you're distracted/inebriated/etc so that stuff simply happens much more often (think someone veering into a guardrail/curb to their side at a couple feet a second)



these rules of thumb are pertinent for situations involving dry solid marked roadss & their periphery just to be clear; a lot of it doesn't apply to or imply the same thing on rainy/icy/etc surfaces or entirely loose stuff like gravel/dirt roads

Lord Decimus Barnacle posted:

All consumer passenger vehicles sold in the United States have required airbags since like 1998 or 1999. The only trucks that don’t require airbags are certain medium duty and heavy duty trucks (real heavy duty not the marketing from ford//Chevy/ram).

Medium-duty trucks generally weigh between 14,000 and 26,000 pounds, while heavy-duty trucks weigh between 26,001 and 33,000 pounds. The differences between these two truck classes all come down to the vehicle's size and weight. Although many pickup truck commercials boast about heavy-duty towing capacity, the reality is that most of these everyday pickups are classified as light duty.

CharlestheHammer posted:

I like how people have just decided something is untrue based on nothing.

Goon contrarian nature i suppose


We get it your super special now go away

CharlestheHammer posted:

I like how people have just decided something is untrue based on nothing.

Goon contrarian nature i suppose


We get it your super special now go away

kw0134 posted:

I promise you that anyone with a Vanguard fund is not materially affected by Tesla's meltdown because it's a small part (consider the "500" of the "S&P 500") of the net asset value.

Lamech posted:

Should Cybertruck have airbags:

[ ] Yes
[ ] No