tesla motors

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Sun Aug 26, 2018 2:46 pm

That's manifestly incorrect.

Your mention of a curb tells me you were using it where it's not recommended. You also shouldn't be braking or accelerating with EAP on outside of times where you need to take over, which are rare.

Try it on a highway where it excels.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Sun Aug 26, 2018 5:37 pm

My car won't even let me turn on lane keeping assist (a nerfed kind of autopilot) unless I'm going 45 MPH or above. I can imagine autopilot is an issue for any kind of city driving.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:34 pm

Elon Musk doubles down on his pedophilia allegations against Vernon Unsworth.

“I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, you fucking asshole,” Musk wrote in the first message. “He’s an old, single white guy from England who’s been traveling to or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years, mostly Pattaya Beach, until moving to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time.”

“As for this alleged threat of a lawsuit, which magically appeared when I raised the issue (nothing was sent or raised beforehand), I fucking hope he sues me,” he added.

Oy.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:44 pm

You can be a billionaire visionary genius and still being a dumbass.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:51 pm

coopasonic wrote: Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:44 pm You can be a billionaire visionary genius and still [be] a dumbass.

Ayup.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:14 pm

He has a fudiciary duty to not be a dumbass.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:14 pm

Ayup.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Wed Sep 05, 2018 9:39 pm

Back to news about the company itself rather than its man-child CEO: Per InsideEVs' estimates (which historically are pretty accurate) Tesla outsold Audi and M-B in the US in August. BMW only ~500 vehicles ahead.

Narrowing to passenger vehicles only, The Model 3 alone outsold all of BMW in the US.

And this is without the vehicle having fully ramped yet.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Wed Sep 05, 2018 10:34 pm

Was reading a story about Ford's stock being downgraded to one notch above junk status, and a Ford spokesman griped about Tesla's ridiculous market cap. Ford has Tesla envy.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 11:37 am

My 14 day EAP trial ends tonight. Considering setting up a GoFundMe to add it permanently.

Kidding, but that would pretty much be the only way I end up with autopilot unless they decide to drop the price to $1k or less. It's a cool toy, but, for me, that is all it is. After using it pretty much daily for two weeks, I have no regrets about dropping it from my order.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:59 pm

I will say that Musk has seemed very presidential lately.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 1:01 pm

El Guapo wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:59 pm I will say that Musk has seemed very presidential lately.

Ayup.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:34 pm

El Guapo wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:59 pm I will say that Musk has seemed very presidential lately.

Well, he's being sued by the cave diver and Andrew Left/Citron (separately, of course) so if he listens at all to his attorneys he'll limit himself to retweeting favorable Tesla news articles and some SpaceX stuff.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:37 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:34 pm
El Guapo wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:59 pm I will say that Musk has seemed very presidential lately.
Well, he's being sued by the cave diver and Andrew Left/Citron (separately, of course) so if he listens at all to his attorneys he'll limit himself to retweeting favorable Tesla news articles and some SpaceX stuff.

Actually, he's going on Joe Rogan tonight, so we'll get 2-3 hours of unfiltered Elon. Which could be great or very much, fully, entirely terrible.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:43 pm

Zaxxon wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:37 pm
LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:34 pm
El Guapo wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 12:59 pm I will say that Musk has seemed very presidential lately.
Well, he's being sued by the cave diver and Andrew Left/Citron (separately, of course) so if he listens at all to his attorneys he'll limit himself to retweeting favorable Tesla news articles and some SpaceX stuff.
Actually, he's going on Joe Rogan tonight, so we'll get 2-3 hours of unfiltered Elon. Which could be great or very much, fully, entirely terrible.

Controlled environment so I'll go with great. What he won't (or shouldn't) be doing is tweeting at 2am while autopiloting home from a sex party. Or on a weekday morning when he feels TSLA needs a spike in price.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:50 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:43 pm Controlled environment so I'll go with great. What he won't (or shouldn't) be doing is tweeting at 2am while autopiloting home from a sex party. Or on a weekday morning when he feels TSLA needs a spike in price.

It's controlled in that there are two dudes in a room, but Rogan is very good at letting folks speak, and he does tend to ask solid questions. I'm sure he's going to ask about PedoGate™ and the go-private stuff, as well as Grimes/Azaelea Banks, etc.

Sufficient rope for hanging oneself will be provided. Normally Musk handles this sort of non-adversarial interview well, but today I'm not so confident about.

telcta · Post by **telcta** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 10:56 pm

Got an email Thursday afternoon to pick a preferred day for delivery between 9/21 - 9/27. I guess this is it. Nothing for a long time then bam, possibly a car in a couple weeks. Based on reading about delivery issues on the Tesla forums I’m not getting my hopes up but I am happy that something is happening. Plus I’ll have some time to enjoy it while the weather is still warm.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 10:58 pm

telcta wrote:Got an email Thursday afternoon to pick a preferred day for delivery between 9/21 - 9/27. I guess this is it. Nothing for a long time then bam, possibly a car in a couple weeks. Based on reading about delivery issues on the Tesla forums I’m not getting my hopes up but I am happy that something is happening. Plus I’ll have some time to enjoy it while the weather is still warm.

Don't worry too much. I had the same fears, then went in and my car was fine. One interior trim piece discolored when viewed in just the right light, which they replaced at my convenience.

9k miles later, the car is by far the most fun I've ever had with a purchased item.

My father in law, as well as several local folks here in CO, also got their delivery notices today. The Q3 delivery rush is officially on.

telcta · Post by **telcta** » Thu Sep 06, 2018 11:21 pm

I’m not too concerned about build issues, I’m sure they’ll take care of anything that crops up. More so the communication between the different parties leading up to delivery and unexpected rescheduling. I know more people post about bad experiences than smooth ones and knowing that the bottleneck is most likely in the delivery process with Tesla cranking out so many cars. I’m a patient person... and I know you guys would say it’s worth the wait.

Congrats for your father in law. This is going to be a very busy month.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 12:07 am

telcta wrote: I know you guys would say it’s worth the wait.

Congrats for your father in law. This is going to be a very busy month.

Thanks. My brother in law just drove it for the first time tonight. He had a grin the whole way.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 9:43 am

telcta wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 11:21 pm I’m not too concerned about build issues, I’m sure they’ll take care of anything that crops up. More so the communication between the different parties leading up to delivery and unexpected rescheduling. I know more people post about bad experiences than smooth ones and knowing that the bottleneck is most likely in the delivery process with Tesla cranking out so many cars. I’m a patient person... and I know you guys would say it’s worth the wait.

Congrats for your father in law. This is going to be a very busy month.

The delivery process is a mess, but once you get the car, none of that matters. I've had mine for 2.5 weeks and I still smile just thinking about it... and the smile gets a little wider every time I drive it. Now I know why Zaxx keeps going on road trips.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:21 am

Zaxxon wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:50 pm
LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:43 pm Controlled environment so I'll go with great. What he won't (or shouldn't) be doing is tweeting at 2am while autopiloting home from a sex party. Or on a weekday morning when he feels TSLA needs a spike in price.
It's controlled in that there are two dudes in a room, but Rogan is very good at letting folks speak, and he does tend to ask solid questions. I'm sure he's going to ask about PedoGate™ and the go-private stuff, as well as Grimes/Azaelea Banks, etc.

Sufficient rope for hanging oneself will be provided. Normally Musk handles this sort of non-adversarial interview well, but today I'm not so confident about.

Yeah, I guess I was wrong there. Between him smoking dope on air (I think I was right about the "$420" take private price being a brodude signal) and the accounting chief resigning after a month on the job it's not a good day for shares.

Maybe it's medicinal. But he really needs to check hi'self.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:25 am

Oh, and the HR head too.

Tesla’s chief accounting officer, Dave Morton, has resigned after less than a month on the job, the company announced in a regulatory filing today. Morton said in a statement that “the level of public attention placed on the company, as well as the pace within the company, have exceeded my expectations.”

Shortly after the announcement of Morton’s departure, Gabrielle Toledano, Tesla’s head of HR, told Bloomberg she has decided not to come back to the company after being on a leave of absence. She’s the second Tesla executive to not return from a leave of absence this summer. Doug Field, who ran the company’s vehicle programs, stepped down in July after having gone on leave in May.

The news of both departures came hours after CEO Elon Musk smoked weed on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Tesla’s stock price dropped as much as 10 percent Friday morning, the biggest hit to the company’s market capitalization in two years.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:56 am

LawBeefaroni wrote: Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:21 am
Zaxxon wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:50 pm
LawBeefaroni wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:43 pm Controlled environment so I'll go with great. What he won't (or shouldn't) be doing is tweeting at 2am while autopiloting home from a sex party. Or on a weekday morning when he feels TSLA needs a spike in price.
It's controlled in that there are two dudes in a room, but Rogan is very good at letting folks speak, and he does tend to ask solid questions. I'm sure he's going to ask about PedoGate™ and the go-private stuff, as well as Grimes/Azaelea Banks, etc.

Sufficient rope for hanging oneself will be provided. Normally Musk handles this sort of non-adversarial interview well, but today I'm not so confident about.
Yeah, I guess I was wrong there. Between him smoking dope on air (I think I was right about the "$420" take private price being a brodude signal) and the accounting chief resigning after a month on the job it's not a good day for shares.

Maybe it's medicinal. But he really needs to check hi'self.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:58 am

Sometimes I dislike being correct.

That said, I liked the interview. Not so much the executive departures.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:58 am

TSLA is down almost $120 a share since the day Musk tweeted about taking the company private. It's been an interesting month.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 11:05 am

The hundred million dollar joint.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 11:08 am

The interview:

Moliere · Post by **Moliere** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:49 pm

As Tesla struggles to exit 'production hell,' buyers complain of delivery limbo

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Fri Sep 14, 2018 8:26 pm

Too R&P?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:58 pm

Popehat

If aliens grabbed some rando popped-collar douchebro off of a frathouse roof, Uplifted his brain, and handed him a billion dollars, they'd wind up with Elon Musk, a furiously rich, frighteningly smart visionary and ambulatory Ed Hardy shirt. The wisdom-dump-statted Musk has been terrifying Tesla shareholders by careening from one bizarre antic after another. It might be said of him that we are all constantly called upon to hold his beer.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:19 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:58 pm Popehat

If aliens grabbed some rando popped-collar douchebro off of a frathouse roof, Uplifted his brain, and handed him a billion dollars, they'd wind up with Elon Musk, a furiously rich, frighteningly smart visionary and ambulatory Ed Hardy shirt. The wisdom-dump-statted Musk has been terrifying Tesla shareholders by careening from one bizarre antic after another. It might be said of him that we are all constantly called upon to hold his beer.

That's a hell of a paragraph about Musk.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:09 pm

A Tesla repair center is being built just down the street from my old house.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:48 am

Dashcam feature in V9

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:57 am

coopasonic wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:48 am Dashcam feature in V9

Seems pretty bad, as I'd have to give up one of the 2 console charge ports, but better than what anyone else is making.

Side note: deliveries are in crazy crunch mode right now. Last Sat I was at our local delivery center. They got > 30 car carrier deliveries that day alone (that's 180+ cars). The Jaguar dealer that's moving in asked where they're putting those cars. "They're not staying" was the response. Our center alone is delivering > 70 cars/day this week, with > 100 scheduled for Saturday.

Your average car dealer is in the 2-5 vehicles/day range. Granted, if you take Tesla and smooth out deliveries across the whole quarter, it's a much smaller number than 70/day. But still a lot higher than the average car dealer.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:03 pm

It should be noted they also have far fewer dealerships per capita than other dealers. I think here the ratio is about 1 dealer per 57 people.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:06 pm

Jeff V wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:03 pm It should be noted they also have far fewer dealerships per capita than other dealers. I think here the ratio is about 1 dealer per 57 people.

Of course. Not trying to imply that they're delivering more than Ford or anything overall. But they are seemingly an order of magnitude more efficient at it, currently. In any event, the dealership next door is in awe.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:10 pm

Zaxxon wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:06 pm
Jeff V wrote: Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:03 pm It should be noted they also have far fewer dealerships per capita than other dealers. I think here the ratio is about 1 dealer per 57 people.
Of course. Not trying to imply that they're delivering more than Ford or anything overall. But they are seemingly an order of magnitude more efficient at it, currently. In any event, the dealership next door is in awe.

Last time I bought a car I went through True Car to ostensibly shorten the experience. It still took the salestroll, his manager, and the finance guy 8 hours to get me out the door.

After that, I'm not looking forward going there again in the spring when the lease is up on the Rogue. Depending what they levy on me for various dings and scratches, I might very well be leaving with the same car but purchased instead of leased.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:13 pm

Yeah, I hear you. My total time on the Tesla premises for my purchase was 45 minutes, including trade-in.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:19 pm

The dealer had the car on Thursday and I set up an appointment Saturday morning to pick it up. I think it took me either 90 minutes or 2 hours and I had no trade in. At least part of the time I was told they were cleaning the car. Doesn't seem like good time management.