Roosevelt posted:

i used to drive a blue 1976 honda civic with matching blue tinted windows and people on the street loved that tiny little car

Jonny 290 posted:

cvcc civic is a sick whip

Jonny 290 posted:

cvcc civic is a sick whip

Roosevelt posted:

mine was in a bit worse condition than this one but it was --identical-- same color, same black leather seats, same hondamatic, same wheels and choke knob. mine just said H O   D A on the back.

https://www.carterscarsvt.com/used/Honda/1976-Honda-CVCC%20CIVIC-397739040a0e09b16eae737510474b9e.htm

i miss it so much. in fact i wish i had the cash to buy this rare gem. 27,000 miles and i can see it's all OEM.

jesus WEP posted:

my girlfriend gets compliments on her miata all the time, it’s a perfectly normal human interaction lol why be weird about it

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/gdsUYPO.mp4

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

the trucks are migrating back to their spawning ground

Jonny 290 posted:

that nova got a dime sized hole in the radiator and i just got a flip top radiator cap and learned the location of all the gas stations in town with a free water hose. range was 10-12 miles between refills. what a tank

quote:

Tesla's massive gigafactory outside Austin, Texas will no longer have to follow local environmental regulations, thanks to a recent state law.

Tesla's 2,500-acre property, which includes its 10-million-square-foot electric vehicle gigafactory, is in unincorporated land on the outskirts of Austin.

Despite not being directly in the city, most of that land was still part of Austin's "extraterritorial jurisdiction" (ETJ), which allowed the city to regulate developments outside its limits.


In February, Tesla applied for an exemption from Austin's ETJ, which the city's Planning Department approved in March.

The exemption was possible thanks to a new state law that went into effect in September and allows landowners to request to be removed from jurisdictions so that they can develop land with fewer regulations.

Several cities in the state have already sued to block the law, including Grand Prairie, which argued in a filing that the law will hurt the city's ability to protect the health, safety, and welfare of those who live in and around its borders.

But under the law, cities don't have much leeway to deny a landowner's request, Austin's director of planning previously said, according to the Austin Business Journal.

Tesla's ETJ exemption will enable the electric vehicle company to further develop its land without having to follow the city's environmental restrictions, which an Austin city spokesperson acknowledged could harm locals.

"Releasing properties from the ETJ impacts the City because development in the ETJ is subject to limited subdivision regulation as well as regulation of water quality and flooding issues," Shelley Parks, an Austin city spokesperson, said in a statement to Business Insider. "All affect people in both the ETJ and the City itself." 

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Chris Knight posted:

I'm sure it'll be fine

EricBauman posted:

the most progressive city in texas is still in texas

Chris Knight posted:

I'm sure it'll be fine

Midjack posted:

keep austin weird toxic

Chris Knight posted:

I'm sure it'll be fine

Midjack posted:

keep austin weird

Kernel Sanders posted:

what’s the etymology behind “whip”?

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

smdh at those who don't know Mr FAB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9nPhHxkLxw


who's that driving, Patrick swayze?

Chris Knight posted:

Jonny 290 posted:

guys thats a midjourney pic, yall disappoint me

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/feds-concerned-some-of-teslas-autopilot-recall-was-opt-in-reversible/ posted:

NHTSA also found that Tesla's telematics system has plenty of gaps in it, despite the closely held belief among many fans of the brand that the Autopilot system is constantly recording and uploading to Tesla's servers to improve itself. Instead, it only records an accident if the airbags deploy, which NHTSA data shows only happens in 18 percent of police-reported crashes.

infernal machines posted:

old news, but it's always nice to see the nhtsa catching up to where the thread was four years ago

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/elon-musk-heading-china-visit-teslas-second-biggest-market-sources-say-2024-04-28/ posted:

Elon Musk visits China as Tesla seeks self-driving technology rollout

SHANGHAI/BEIJING, April 28 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday on an unannounced visit, where he was expected to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving (FSD) software and permission to transfer data overseas, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Chinese state media reported that he met Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, during which Li told Musk that Tesla's development in China could be regarded as a successful example of U.S.-China economic and trade cooperation.

"Honored to meet with Premier Li Qiang. We have known each other now for many years, since early Shanghai days," Musk posted on social media platform X, as he appeared in a picture with the premier.

Tesla reached an accord with Chinese authorities for a plant in Shanghai, its first outside the United States, in 2018.

The U.S. electric vehicle maker rolled out FSD, the most autonomous version of its Autopilot software, four years ago but has yet to make it available in China, its second-largest market globally, despite customer demand.

Musk said this month that Tesla may make FSD available to customers in China "very soon," in response to a query on X.

Luigi Thirty posted:

ok but how about AI car racing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=143MxioL0ns

looks good to me

Shumagorath posted:

of course those cars wanted to off themselves; we made them race on Yas

Sombrerotron posted:

so i'm wondering, is there an easy way to turn off this vehicle/person/????object???? recognition in teslas or are you just stuck with the system constantly producing this incredibly distracting mess of appearing/disappearing/shape-changing things?

shackleford posted:

elon trying to quietly visit china and ask for permission to deploy FSD

i guess they have actual regulators in china? hope they tell him to get lost

for some reason i thought FSD was already available in china? maybe all those tesla crashes in china were autopilot?