Maybe. Or they’re just trying to make a buck as the ship sinks.
I like my Tesla, but it really has trouble driving by itself in many situations.

I think they planned for it to fail; maybe not this fast. But there’s much more engagement bait potential with everyone loving to hate Tesla.

Every time anything goes slightly amiss with a Tesla, the media play it up because people like you who hate Tesla want to read about Tesla failure, so it drives engagement. Many many other cars have accidents where people get stuck in the car. There are other cars that have frameless windows and electronic handles, but you never hear about them not because they’re any safer, but because no one cares about them.

I feel pretty safe in it. Ego has nothing to do with it. When I bought it a number of years ago, it seemed like a good way to be better for the environment, help propel innovation and have something fun and different. I certainly will never buy a Tesla again because of Elon, but I think the car’s pretty good. I feel much safer in it than in our Mazda 2 that would be squished like an empty pop can in a collision between two SUV’s.

Well yes. And I know trying to explain these facts in a room of Tesla haters isn’t going to get anywhere. I certainly wouldn’t buy another Tesla because of Elon, but I really think the car itself is quite well made.

It’s a race.

Yes, but a slightly more self-aware turd than I gave him credit for before.

There are other ways, of course, but capitalism is very good at incentivizing innovation. And the complexity of innovation as it typically is these days requires a lot of investment, infrastructure, large teams etc. it’s a risk to do all that investment and work on some idea when one doesn’t know for sure if it will work or be as useful /popular as you think. If we don’t incentivize such investment and effort with a reward such as good remuneration, it won’t happen, at least not at anywhere near the same speed. And all those people working on innovation aren’t’slaves’, they typically enjoy it to some degree. But they wouldn’t put in all that effort if it wasn’t a job that they needed to do to support themselves. And they wouldn’t be able to coordinate such a project and collect required resources without it being through a company like entity. We know government sucks at this sort of thing precisely because there’s no drive to push to make things better and marketable; it devolves to politics, and gaming any metrics. I think the main error of your thinking is that although we could reduce our work load and survive - so we could all work less or some lucky people wouldn’t have to work, that would slow innovation. As a species, we can use the extra bandwidth that technological advancement has afforded us to make more technological advancements. This actually leads to a better quality of life for everyone. Now, there’s still obviously a major problem with the way unfettered capitalism abuses minimum wage unskilled workers and billionaire owners hoard wealth - but I really don’t see how we can effectively run a society where people don’t have to work, where people just do what they want - and then expect things to keep functioning and even progress.

Yes Teslas have that too. They have a redundant power to the doors to minimize failure. But we’re talking about the case where that fails, no?

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If you receive it via antenna then they do not know and cannot count you; unless you happen to have one of the Nelson boxes in your house monitoring your tv usage.

People don’t have to work for someone else. They can run their own business, however small. They can move to the country and rent some land to farm. They could form a collective to do that. Or get investment to get going. Or help someone else doing the same for a fixed payment. Yes, a wage - whoops - is that slavery? Yes we should have some form of social safety net and the monopolies and billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to hoard wealth and unfairly stifle competition. But without that competitive drive, our innovation would falter.

But overloaded by design?

That’s quite a strawman you’re fighting there!

I have one I know exactly how they work. To be clear I think Musk is a fool and I would never buy a tesla again because of his Nazi ties. But the statement in that article about handles is wrong/simplified/misleading. On the outside, the handles lay flat; but almost all car’s outer handles will not be usable when a door is locked. On the inside, the doors have electric buttons to open that could be disabled in a crash. But there are easy to use manual handles too. They are obvious and people use them by default until you tell them to use the electronic button (which prolongs the life of the window gasket by lowering the frameless window a bit before opening). In the back, there are manual overrides but they’re hidden; however this is no less safe than having the child lock on for back door which is a normal feature for cars.

I have one, I know exactly how it works. Yes the back door system is stupid, but no worse for safety than any car with the kid locks on the doors.
The emergency internal handles in the front are exactly where you think they’d be. If I don’t tell people how to open the door with the button, they pull the emergency handle. Of course if someone is used to pushing the button and it doesn’t work, they might panic, and forget but if they’re unconscious it hardly matters.

It happens in other cars too. And batteries burn. The outer door handles are no different than any car’s locked doors.

A moral rational to not be dissolved.

The fbi guys are pretty stupid, huh?

If my company wipes my Mac through such a system, but I have it hooked to my own personal Apple cloud account, can I go buy a new Mac and restore it?