• buzz86us@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I wish the US had viable alternatives to Tesla… Most mass market cars here barely match the tech, and still want $$$.

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      15 days ago

      There’s loads of electric vehicles on the market in the US with similar tech to the Tesla. What tech do you want anyway, the most useful thing that Tesla has a reverse charging which is not at all unique.

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      16 days ago

      What are you talking about? Ford has better battery chemistry, Chevy has better interiors, Rivian makes a better truck, and those are just American brands.

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        15 days ago

        Took Ford 4 years of production to swap to heat pump, Chevy’s tech is completely laughable it would be a 500% improvement if they just removed the screen, and did carplay only

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          How could you do carplay without a screen?

          Frankly I don’t need my car to have a gaming system bolted to it. I prefer carplay for music and navigation, and physical buttons for climate control. I think a lot of ‘high tech’ Tesla design decisions are actively hostile to the driving experience.

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            Carplay can be done without a screen just add GPS arrows and track info to an HUD.

            That is part of what annoys me about legacy Auto EVs they try and fail to compete with Tesla, and just give their horrendous infotainment larger screens. If I could option those away I’d seriously prefer that. I care more about what makes the car go… If I could exchange the screen for more range then that’d be for me.

            Another thing that bothers me is packaging. Gigacasting just makes for a better overall car whereas a lot of legacy Auto stuff is conversions of ICE platforms.

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    16 days ago

    Shitty cars, shitty company, ketamine addled fascist prick owner.

    Still no “Full Self Driving” after claiming “soon” back in 2015…

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      if he kept his promise of self driving and an economy model we would all be very uncomfortable right about now.

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      16 days ago

      I mean, the model 3 and Y would be great cars if it weren’t for Elon. Tesla, SpaceX, and the whole world would be much better off without him.

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        15 days ago

        Have you seen the Xiaomi SU7? Cheaper, faster, arguably much better looking…

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          I live in the US and they’re not available. Also I’m reluctant to buy anything with cameras and an internet connection from China as long as the CCP is in charge.

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            I’m not talking about buying one. Just comparing the cars themselves. Teslas are falling behind.

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    16 days ago

    Fair. I’ll stop calling Swastikars Swastikars, or was it Swasticars? I think it’s Swastikars.
    Anyway, someone cooked up the word Hakencruisers and I really loved it.

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        Better, I’d imagine.

        “Oh, here comes a hakencruiser…”

        “A hack and what?”

        Versus “look at that fucking wankpanzer. Fucking wanker.” Can’t go much simpler than that.

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        VW means people’s car.

        That’s not wrong, but Volk is more nuanced than that. Think somewhere between folk and ethnicity, so it’s still fascist.

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            In German spoken since the nazis used it as a propaganda term it has taken on a different connotation. The denotation of “Volk” may be “people” in some senses, but “Menschen” fits much better for most uses of people. “A people” is “ein Volk,” but “people” is most commonly used as the plural of “person,” which would be “Mensch.” “Volk” has an ethnic connotation, which the singular meaning of “people” has, but the plural does not.

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          Not entirely true

          Substantiv, Neutrum [das]

          1. durch gemeinsame Kultur und Geschichte [und Sprache] verbundene große Gemeinschaft von Menschen “ein freies, unterdrücktes Volk”

          2. [ohne Plural] Masse der Angehörigen einer Gesellschaft, der Bevölkerung eines Landes, eines Staatsgebiets “das arbeitende, werktätige, unwissende Volk”

          1. Many people who’re connected through similar history and culture, “a free people”, “a suppressed people”
          2. [without plural] Members of a society, the inhabitants of a country, “the working people”, …
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            No, it’s definitely not a comprehensive definition, I was going for the meaning in context of VW. The correct response to pedantry is pedantry, though :)

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      Oh man on the paint? That’s just rude.

      On a cyber truck or late model year…sure. But the ones that bought new before it was obvious how much of a shitheel Musk is…back when the Tesla stood apart as the electric car? Leave those guys alone. Or at least just inconvenience them by putting it on glass.

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    I’m swastisure he doesn’t give a fuck. This is peak slacktivism, on par with sharing a meaningless chain post on Facebook.

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      16 days ago

      And why would you use it to make the fugly cybertruck look cooler than it actually does? In a post satirizing it? Weird approach.

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        I think the point is that literally anyone and apparently even non sapient entities, can make a better vehicle than musk can.

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      15 days ago

      Ai is a tool for anybody, but not anybody can use this tool efficiently yet…