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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Wonāt Open
I always had a hunch Teslas were death traps but Jesus Christ
Yeah itās sad. As the article points out similar incidents have happened repeatedly. Anyone who saw the door design could have (and did!) predict something like this would happen. My coworker was trapped in his Tesla in his garage for 15 minutes (and he wasnāt in a panic).
Look at the picture of the manual door release here: Itās pretty well hidden, you reach in and pull up on the door buttons.
ā¦ then scroll down and look at the picture of the rear door manual release. You have to pull off some trim from inside the pocket, pull off another panel, and then pull a cable.
ā¦ but wait! Thereās more!
Jesus, I hope the engineers who signed off on this think about what theyāve done and do better. I would say I hope someone regulated bad emergency door releases out of existence butā¦ yāknow.
Imagine what other flaws these cars have if the tried to āinnovateā like this on the solved technology that is fucking doors.
The lack of a speedometer in front of your face is a pretty glaring quality issue. You have to turn your head to look at the massive touchscreen. The one that replaces all other dashboards and most tactile controls
for manufacturing cost savingsto be a cool futuristic vehicle of the future.I wonāt even start talking about the whole CyberStuck thing again because thatās too easy; except to point out that it has turn buttons on the steering wheel instead of a turn signal stalk, a shifter on the ceiling, and the steering wheel is not round.
I only recently bought my first car and itās just old enough that it didnāt even have a backup camera until I got one installed. Honestly half the reason of buying used was so I could have a car without a touchscreen haha.
I still canāt get over the design, engineering, and basic reasoning failures that must have gone into the decision to put supposedly the main way to change gears on the same type of mount that secures your rear-view mirror; a notably inconvenient and fragile place to put anything (and just like a rear-view mirror that got fucked with too intensely, a bunch of these shifters have already detached)
ofc it comes with a square wheel.
The austin allegro was far ahead of its time.
absolutely delightful