[MUSK] All core systems are now on X.com (UPDATE BOOKMARKS)

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limp dick calvin: Sep 1, 2006; Strepitoso. Vedete? Una meraviglia.

shyduck posted:

Linda has responded

https://twitter.com/lindayaX/status/1727379403519533086?s=20

the forums are better

# ? Nov 22, 2023 19:21

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# ? May 25, 2024 08:54

Glumwheels: Jan 25, 2003; https://twitter.com/BidenHQ

shyduck posted:

Linda has responded

https://twitter.com/lindayaX/status/1727379403519533086?s=20

Lmao, like an ostrich with their head buried in sand.

You�d think she�d have some self awareness not to feed into that meme about her.

# ? Nov 22, 2023 19:33

meowmeowmeowmeow: Jan 4, 2017

She's trying to post through it but just doesn't have the true poster energy to do so

# ? Nov 22, 2023 19:41

Circle Nine: Mar 1, 2009; But that’s how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don’t have to carry a suitcase.

linda is the best poster and i won't hear anyone say different

# ? Nov 22, 2023 19:44

RealityWarCriminal: Aug 10, 2016

shyduck posted:

Linda has responded

https://twitter.com/lindayaX/status/1727379403519533086?s=20

globalnews.ca ?

# ? Nov 22, 2023 19:48

Raskolnikov38: Mar 3, 2007; We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

https://twitter.com/xXJeped0Xx/status/1727394960897442196

lol a model Y exploding might have shut down the US/canadian border

# ? Nov 22, 2023 19:50

UFOTacoMan: Sep 22, 2005; Thanks easter bunny!
bok bok!

shyduck posted:

Linda has responded

https://twitter.com/lindayaX/status/1727379403519533086?s=20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7krUstHL2XY

# ? Nov 22, 2023 19:52

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

Raskolnikov38 posted:

https://twitter.com/xXJeped0Xx/status/1727394960897442196

lol a model Y exploding might have shut down the US/canadian border

lmfao oh my loving god dawg

# ? Nov 22, 2023 19:55

Louisgod: Sep 25, 2003; Always Watching; Bread Liar

I was going to make the joke that the explosion was due to a tesla but that seemed too on the nose but loving lmao

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:00

The REAL Goobusters: Apr 25, 2008

shyduck posted:

Linda has responded

https://twitter.com/lindayaX/status/1727379403519533086?s=20

please if you have any ideas for generating revenue, raise your hand

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:01

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Elon ftw

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-insurance/

quote:

Tesla launched its own car insurance.
These drivers say it's a lemon.

Elon Musk promised cheaper, better, even �revolutionary� auto insurance after Tesla started losing sales because of high premiums. But understaffing left some customers waiting weeks or months for compensation as they continued making payments on crashed cars.

In February, Mark Bova purchased a used 2018 Tesla Model S. Before leaving the dealer, he bought insurance from Tesla itself, finding the initial $93 monthly premium �really reasonable.�

Sixteen days later, as he drove along the Capital Beltway to his Maryland home, he engaged Autopilot, Tesla�s automated driving system. The car started beeping and lurched left � striking a median and flipping. He escaped through a window as the car filled with smoke. An ambulance rushed him to the hospital with back injuries that later required surgery.

�I�m a former Green Beret,� Bova said, referring to the U.S. Army Special Forces. �That was probably the second-most traumatic thing I've gone through other than being in combat.�

His ordeal isn�t over. Tesla Insurance, launched in 2019 by the electric-car company, has promised policyholders �vastly better� service than rivals, as Tesla chief Elon Musk put it in April 2022. Musk also said he aimed to offer �same-day� collision repairs. But Bova says he has been battling the insurer ever since the crash.

He said he waited seven months for payment on the totaled vehicle and still hasn�t been compensated for about $50,000 in medical expenses. That required a call to the automaker�s product liability department because the crash involved Autopilot, he was told. He waited on hold for hours and got hung up on four times, he said. When someone finally answered, the person promised another callback in two weeks. Four months later, he�s still waiting.

Tesla and Musk did not respond to detailed questions from Reuters for this report.

Bova isn�t the only customer Tesla Insurance has angered, according to scores of complaints in social media and online posts, including on a Better Business Bureau website, and Reuters interviews with half a dozen policyholders. While some customers in online posts have praised the insurer�s low premiums, others, like Bova, complain of waiting weeks or months for payouts and repairs, and an inability to reach claims adjusters.

Tesla officials have said they started the insurer to solve a problem: Prospective customers walking away from car sales after getting sky-high insurance quotes, based on the electric vehicles� high collision-repair costs. Despite promising to revolutionize automobile insurance, Tesla has at times run the business on a shoestring budget, at one point with only about a dozen adjusters who were quickly overwhelmed by hundreds of claims, according to several sources familiar with the insurer�s operations.

The insurer�s problems fit into a pattern of rushed and sloppy management leading to consumer and worker harms across Musk�s empire of technology and manufacturing firms. The billionaire�s decisions have come under fire in the year since he bought Twitter, now renamed X. Advertising revenue and company value plummeted after Musk slashed the firm�s staff by more than half and introduced a series of unpopular platform changes. After Musk endorsed an antisemitic post on X last week, several major companies halted their advertising on the platform. Musk denied being antisemitic.

At Tesla, employees shared sensitive videos and images of owners recorded by the cars� cameras, Reuters reported in April, prompting two U.S. Senators to write Musk a letter stating that the article raised �serious questions about Tesla's management practices.� In July, the news agency exposed a systematic effort by Tesla to overstate its vehicles� driving range� including by rigging the algorithm that controls in-dash estimates � leading to a federal investigation and several class-action lawsuits.

This month, a Reuters investigation documented at least 600 injuries at rocket-maker SpaceX, and pervasive failures to report safety data to regulators, as workers scrambled to meet Musk�s ambitious deadlines for space missions. Late last year, Reuters exposed how experiments at Musk�s brain-chip startup, Neuralink, resulted in the unnecessary suffering and deaths of lab animals as researchers rushed to appease Musk�s demands for speedy regulatory approvals.

Complaints about Tesla Insurance are drawing scrutiny from state regulators and the plaintiffs� bar. The Ohio Department of Insurance at least twice this year determined that Tesla had violated the state�s insurance regulations in handling claims, including for a lack of timely communications with a policyholder, according to correspondence obtained by Reuters through a public records request. The department was considering opening formal investigations, the records show. The agency declined to comment.

Customer complaints against auto insurance companies aren�t uncommon. And there�s no way to know exactly how many have been made against Tesla Insurance and how its record compares with competitors�. That�s in part because regulators in some states where it does business � including California, Utah, Illinois and Virginia � consider details of complaints confidential.

In interviews, customers described their interactions with the insurer as frustrating on many levels. Phil Fioresi Sr., a stonecutter in South San Francisco, California, told Reuters it took about 15 calls to reach someone at Tesla Insurance after his daughter�s car was struck by one of its policyholders in September. He called the service �totally ridiculous.�

�What do they have, three people answering phone calls?� he asked.

The insurer wouldn�t divulge the current number of claims adjusters. But the dozen or so adjusters who started handling California claims in late 2021 were quickly so swamped that resolving cases took weeks or months, the people familiar with the operations said. At the time, Tesla insured more than 50,000 vehicles in the state, according to California Department of Insurance records.

Nenonen has issued a correction as of 20:11 on Nov 22, 2023

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:08

Sir Tonk: Apr 18, 2006; Young Orc

ISIS has bought the first 10,000 cybertrucks

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:08

ben shapino: Nov 22, 2020

Nenonen posted:

Elon ftw

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-insurance/

Lemon Suk

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:08

Sir Tonk: Apr 18, 2006; Young Orc

Nenonen posted:

Elon ftw

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-insurance/

what kind of moron would buy car insurance from the company that made your car? a warranty, sure, but no way in hell am I getting insurance from them

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:09

Spaced God: Feb 8, 2014; All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!

Sir Tonk posted:

what kind of moron would buy car insurance from the company that made your car? a warranty, sure, but no way in hell am I getting insurance from them

Because no other insurer will cover a Tesla

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:11

Slotducks: Oct 16, 2008; Nobody puts Phil in a corner.

Sir Tonk posted:

what kind of moron would buy car insurance from the company that made your car? a warranty, sure, but no way in hell am I getting insurance from them

quote:

Elon Musk promised cheaper, better, even �revolutionary� auto insurance after Tesla started losing sales because of high premiums.

you dont think elon musk would lie about something, right??

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:13

Pf. Hikikomoriarty: Feb 15, 2003; RO YNSHO; Slippery Tilde

Nenonen posted:

Elon ftw

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-insurance/

lol this mf is named bova

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:13

shyduck: Oct 3, 2003

Sir Tonk posted:

what kind of moron would buy car insurance from the company that made your car? a warranty, sure, but no way in hell am I getting insurance from them

iirc there's a lot of insurance companies that won't cover Teslas because of all the reasons

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:13

Sir Tonk: Apr 18, 2006; Young Orc

shyduck posted:

iirc there's a lot of insurance companies that won't cover Teslas because of all the reasons

sure seems like that would be something the automotive press would mention when reviewing his cars

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:16

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

quote:

�I�m a former Green Beret,� Bova said, referring to the U.S. Army Special Forces. �That was probably the second-most traumatic thing I've gone through other than being in combat.�

I'm just glad that he brought up his background, which has got nothing to do with his story.

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:17

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Sir Tonk posted:

what kind of moron would buy car insurance from the company that made your car? a warranty, sure, but no way in hell am I getting insurance from them

Elon revolutionized car insurance, such as increasing your premium if you ever drove after dark. Such genius!

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:19

AppleNippleBOB: May 13, 2007

Raskolnikov38 posted:

https://twitter.com/xXJeped0Xx/status/1727394960897442196

lol a model Y exploding might have shut down the US/canadian border

"...This is crazy!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

It's so hot in here.

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:21

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Raskolnikov38 posted:

https://twitter.com/xXJeped0Xx/status/1727394960897442196

lol a model Y exploding might have shut down the US/canadian border

Can't BBQ there mate

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:24

Euphoriaphone: Aug 10, 2006

shyduck posted:

Linda has responded

https://twitter.com/lindayaX/status/1727379403519533086?s=20

the openai stuff is what's made me realize threads seems to be the main place journalists are posting now (tech journalists, at least). the only openai update that was posted to x first was the ms ceo's lie that they hired altman

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:24

limp dick calvin: Sep 1, 2006; Strepitoso. Vedete? Una meraviglia.

looking into it

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:26

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

shyduck posted:

Linda has responded

https://twitter.com/lindayaX/status/1727379403519533086?s=20

Thank you Linda!!!!

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:31

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

a Tesla blowing up at the border is too funny to be real But for now I will believe it

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:33

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

In Training posted:

a Tesla blowing up at the border is too funny NOT to be real But for now I will believe it

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:34

Slider: Jun 6, 2004; POINTS

being a green beret is only the 2nd dumbest decision that guy made

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:34

Randalor: Sep 4, 2011

Sir Tonk posted:

ISIS has bought the first 10,000 cybertrucks

I thought terrorist groups would want explosives they could control.

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:35

Juul-Whip: Mar 10, 2008

I'm struggling to imagine how it would enhance my life or increase my understanding of those events or "the future of open AI" if I had been receiving up-to-the-minute updates about the other day's imbroglio. it would just be mildly entertaining at best

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:36

morningdrew: Jul 18, 2003; It's toe-tapping-ly tragic!

Nenonen posted:

Elon ftw

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-insurance/

same day collision repairs 😂😂😂😂😂😂

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:41

shyduck: Oct 3, 2003

It really does look like a Tesla Model Y

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:41

deadwing: Mar 5, 2007

Glumwheels posted:

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1727296011721380311

masterful gambit, sir

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:42

shyduck: Oct 3, 2003

Grok became self-aware on November 22nd, 2023

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:45

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

morningdrew posted:

same day collision repairs 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Upon bumping into a child the FSD will beeline to the nearest Tesla garage.

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:48

Spaced God: Feb 8, 2014; All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!

https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1727412513107779929

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:52

tenderjerk: Nov 6, 2008; Can't post for 371 days!

holy poo poo i cannot possibly think of buying an expensive car and thr same salesman is selling me in-house insurance of the car, that is insane, how tf are alarm bells not going off in consumers heads when they learn about this

even if teslas were real vehicles made by real auto manufacturers, that should be wholly disqualifying from even considering a purchase

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:53

tenderjerk: Nov 6, 2008; Can't post for 371 days!

Spaced God posted:

https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1727412513107779929

battery that can serve (briefly) as an IED

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:55

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shyduck: Oct 3, 2003

Spaced God posted:

https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1727412513107779929

oh my god could it be

# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:55

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