niucllos
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- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 1 week ago:
For many of those years it was the only electric pickup truck. And also, yes people do like the Tesla name. Musk and growing competition has done a ton to tank the reputation lately, but until just a couple years ago Tesla was seen as far and away the best and most advanced electric car, and sometimes car period, by tons of people. That perception shifts slowly outside of well-informed groups, and the Musk hate is really only affecting well-informed left wing groups
- Comment on Fisker reaches end of the road and files for bankruptcy 2 weeks ago:
All these dumb companies chasing the wrong high margin class imo. Tesla did it right, start with the sports car: the EV powertrain plays well to its strengths, their big advantageous use case isn’t 600 mile road trips, and they don’t need to tow. Starting with the mom-mobiles and dad’s pavement princess puts you on the worst footing by needing obnoxiously large amounts of the most expensive component, needing to meet road trip or towing standards, and catering to a market that by definition has other big spending priorities, e.g. their kids or whatever they want to tow. If Ford’s first electric mustang had been a cobra equivalent rather than a sportier electric escape I suspect they would have had a much better time.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 7 months ago:
You should be able to, but US non-car infrastructure is so abysmal that there’s a strong chance you can’t safely unfortunately
- Comment on Samsung is planning a 400-500$ foldable for 2024 7 months ago:
And help one of the 5 benefits they listed?
- Comment on After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads 7 months ago:
They don’t make it obvious at all, in fact they do their best to seem like you can’t
- Comment on Scientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovations 7 months ago:
US funding for basic research–the type that will lead to the truly paradigm-shifting breakthroughs–has also been in decline for 50+ years as a proportion of GDP. While bureacracy could be an obstacle, the much larger one is insufficient resources to fund a lot of moonshots that may fizzle or may result in 'zero to one’s innovation, as the author states
- Comment on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads 8 months ago:
I have an aeropress and have only ever used a metal filter with it! I’ve had normal paper filtered aeropress coffee and I can’t taste the difference