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Obviously some people don't have much choice where there isn't anything else, but if they have the choice, I never understand why anybody would pay that amount of money for a taxi. If possible, you can also avoid those capitalistic companies by using local transit.

My local transit agency has trains and buses, but no Teslas. They are also charging exponentially less than a taxi that's backed by equity firms. And much safer than cars. All cars.

Holy fuck this is all arguably not hyperbolic, satirical, nor seen as extreme.

Too ridiculous for fiction. Except P.K. Dick I guess.

Makes you wonder if this is just another case of deregulation driving up its body count, or if a certain Nazi is acting out his oven fetish.

Godspeed to you. I was convinced of the same thing a couple of years ago and lost my ass shorting that stock. Turns out, the market can stay manipulated for a long fucking time because there's no regulatory body that actually gives a shit.

Because American consumers are obsessed with pointless gadgetry, and bullshit sells cars.

Moreover, how long will it take for US auto regulators to ban them the way China already has?

cool factor first
safety third

Pretty sure it's unironically just that it looks futuristic and is cheaper or something. It's one of those things where there's not too much to it, it's just a dumb design.

But have you considered how much cheaper they are to make? 🤔

Dont forget the windows are also laminated, so you can't just shatter them.

Sounds very safe..

Terrorism is only when you hurt the Führer’s feelings or don’t sufficiently fellate the memory of one of his nazi pals.

Drive by wire - where the accelerator pedal is connected to the throttle electronically - is separate from these electronic doors with hidden and nonintuitive "emergency" interior release handles.

There's nothing wrong with a drive by wire accelerator.

Some ideas are considered too stupid to legislate against before someone does the stupid thing.

The world continues for a few centuries without them and then suddenly there are warning labels to "not to operate heavy machinery" on bottles of sleeping pills.

Door handles that don't work in an emergency are the engineering equivalent.

It's easy to make a door handle that always works, it takes effort to make a door handle that sometimes works. It's a special kind of stupid.

I can't imagine how bad a Tesla would be without the legislation in place to force their hand and make them safe. This problem slipped through the net.