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“Basic safety equipment is completely missing, which becomes particularly evident in the crash test of an offset frontal collision at 64 km/h (40 mph). During this test, the driver’s head and chest hit the steering wheel hard, which in a real world crash would lead to very serious injuries. The passenger would suffer injuries to their knees and legs because of inadequate structural integrities in the dashboard. There are no driver or passenger front airbags nor side airbags in the seats, while the non-existent seat belt tensioners also had a negative impact.”

The pictures after the crash speak for themselves: the steering wheel has moved far into the cabin and the passenger cell has buckled in such a way that the driver’s door can no longer be opened. After the ADAC crash test, the fire brigade has to lend a hand to rescue occupants. In addition, the Suda does not have any protective devices with which the rescue workers can switch off the EV’s high-voltage system, which means rescue workers are at risk of electric shock. Both the hard to open doors and the risk of electric shock result in longer response times for emergency teams to rescue the occupants after a crash.

Even in braking and evasive tests, the Suda has no chance compared to other modern cars. From about 70 km/h (44 mph) the vehicle skidded out of control during the evasive test and could no longer be kept in check by the driver because it lacks an ESP system. Most modern cars with this technology will pass the test with over 90 km/h (56 mph) without breaking a sweat. The brake pedal lacks feedback and the very long braking distance of 42 meters on average from 100 km/h to full stop also does not exactly contribute to its safety record.
None of this is particularly shocking (pun intended) considering that the CCP has exactly *zero* incentive (not to mention zero history) to care who dies.
 
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Still working the "bug's" out, will deal with it when the problem pops up.


These articles are pointless clickbait lol. Also, “ lurched forward as it accelerated and collided with the motorcycle in front of him “ sounds like the owner was enjoying launch control in an inappropriate environment.
 
These articles are pointless clickbait lol. Also, “ lurched forward as it accelerated and collided with the motorcycle in front of him “ sounds like the owner was enjoying launch control in an inappropriate environment.
When you were still in diapers Audi had a similar issue.

1987: The 1982–1987 Audi 5000's sales in the United States fell after recalls linked to sudden unintended acceleration. There were 700 accidents and 6 deaths.

Audi told owners to just not park their car in a garage... LOL
 
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As UPS's chief corporate affairs and sustainability officer, Lane is working to trim the emissions of the logistics firm, which is responsible for delivering 22 million packages every day across more than 200 countries and territories.
The reality of the market. At our investor conference, we showed one of our beautiful electric tractor-trailers. We're ready to buy. Do you know how many we've been able to take delivery on? Ten. I have thousands of vehicles on the road. If I waited for enough electric vehicles to be produced, along with the infrastructure to support them, I'd be waiting a very long time. That's the reality.


 
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As UPS's chief corporate affairs and sustainability officer, Lane is working to trim the emissions of the logistics firm, which is responsible for delivering 22 million packages every day across more than 200 countries and territories.
The reality of the market. At our investor conference, we showed one of our beautiful electric tractor-trailers. We're ready to buy. Do you know how many we've been able to take delivery on? Ten. I have thousands of vehicles on the road. If I waited for enough electric vehicles to be produced, along with the infrastructure to support them, I'd be waiting a very long time. That's the reality.



Smells like opportunity.
 
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So is it all fixed now?
I'm starting to see a correlation between a Tesla vehicle and the common sense of the driver. Read somewhere they are among some of the worst drivers on the American highway. Maybe that's why they go for the self drivers. They figure a self driver will be safer than them actually doing the driving........ Take a cab.
 
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What keeps me up at night is Bitcoin. Five grand 14 years ago would be what now?

$1,059,166,666.67, that’s what.

I can’t stand it.
Yeah; and I had $30k cash from an insurance settlement and considered investing it instead of replacing what had been stolen from my business... I did the safe thing and replaced my stuff... But Bitcoin was $.50/coin at the time.

Yes; I still hate myself for that.
 
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The Tesla chief arrived in China at a Gulfstream registered to SpaceX at 2 p.m. local time, the report said.


Musk reportedly told the premier that Tesla was willing to deepen its cooperation with China. Musk also met with other high-ranking officials, including Ren Hongbin, head of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the report said.


The Tesla CEO is also expected to meet with officials to discuss the rollout of Tesla’s driver-assistance system, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

 
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What keeps me up at night is Bitcoin. Five grand 14 years ago would be what now?

$1,059,166,666.67, that’s what.

I can’t stand it.

Yeah; and I had $30k cash from an insurance settlement and considered investing it instead of replacing what had been stolen from my business... I did the safe thing and replaced my stuff... But Bitcoin was $.50/coin at the time.

Yes; I still hate myself for that.
If only you had a crystal ball back then.

But you didn't.

I sure wish investing was looking at historical charts and picking the low spot 14 years ago and then just being rich 14 years later.

I lost a lot of money around the turn of the century thinking I was doing the same thing in real time. It was great when there were triple digit annual returns - I thought I was smart. Overall, I lost money, however.

Now I just buy winners and losers altogether and get market returns buying index funds with low expense ratios, like VOO and VTSAX. And over time I have been winning.

From time to time it sure is tempting to look back historically and wonder, if I had bought nothing but Apple starting in the year . . . but that is a bullshit way of thinking. You can't ever know the future or when you are at a historic low. You would have been as likely to lose your money on Bitcoin as become a billionaire, or more likely to lose it, without the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. And that is exactly what almost all active investors do, that is, lose out to simply sticking money in low expense ratio, passive index funds.

It is fun to fantasize about "what if," though. Just don't try to make that reality in the future. It's a loser's game.

 
If only you had a crystal ball back then.

But you didn't.

I sure wish investing was looking at historical charts and picking the low spot 14 years ago and then just being rich 14 years later.

I lost a lot of money around the turn of the century thinking I was doing the same thing in real time. It was great when there were triple digit annual returns - I thought I was smart. Overall, I lost money, however.

Now I just buy winners and losers altogether and get market returns buying index funds with low expense ratios, like VOO and VTSAX. And over time I have been winning.

From time to time it sure is tempting to look back historically and wonder, if I had bought nothing but Apple starting in the year . . . but that is a bullshit way of thinking. You can't ever know the future or when you are at a historic low. You would have been as likely to lose your money on Bitcoin as become a billionaire, or more likely to lose it, without the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. And that is exactly what almost all active investors do, that is, lose out to simply sticking money in low expense ratio, passive index funds.

It is fun to fantasize about "what if," though. Just don't try to make that reality in the future. It's a loser's game.


Quit peeing on my fantasy.

Thank you.




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If only you had a crystal ball back then.

But you didn't.

I sure wish investing was looking at historical charts and picking the low spot 14 years ago and then just being rich 14 years later.

I lost a lot of money around the turn of the century thinking I was doing the same thing in real time. It was great when there were triple digit annual returns - I thought I was smart. Overall, I lost money, however.

Now I just buy winners and losers altogether and get market returns buying index funds with low expense ratios, like VOO and VTSAX. And over time I have been winning.

From time to time it sure is tempting to look back historically and wonder, if I had bought nothing but Apple starting in the year . . . but that is a bullshit way of thinking. You can't ever know the future or when you are at a historic low. You would have been as likely to lose your money on Bitcoin as become a billionaire, or more likely to lose it, without the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. And that is exactly what almost all active investors do, that is, lose out to simply sticking money in low expense ratio, passive index funds.

It is fun to fantasize about "what if," though. Just don't try to make that reality in the future. It's a loser's game.

Nancy polosi beats them all. Just buy before passing laws.
 

Quick departure from Tesla and the stock market.
Who do you think the self driving Tesla is marketed to? Your wealthy professional friend with a tendency towards look what I've got and look what it can do?? Or is it a transportation option for those that can't drive or simply trying to multi task on the way to their destination?
Most likely all the above as Musk lives by the "watch this, hold my beer" way of thinking. Guy in the video states he still has to administer driver imput when in traffic so what's the point? The technology is unreal and it truly is mind blowing, but at the same time it's scary as hell.
Guess I'm showing my age, but I truly enjoy driving, building and working on cars.....give me a bad ass V8 ANYTHING and back it with a Tremec 6 speed!! My daily commute is about 12 minutes each way and live in a valley that an EV really makes sense but I have ZERO interest in owning one. I'll choose my LS swapped CJ7 Jeep any day of the week.
 
People can joke around about it but, "The biggest oil production in American history" is because of wells drilled 10 years ago.
With very little well drilling going on now our oil will be running out in about 10 years. They are forcing America to go electric.
 
Quick departure from Tesla and the stock market.
Who do you think the self driving Tesla is marketed to? Your wealthy professional friend with a tendency towards look what I've got and look what it can do?? Or is it a transportation option for those that can't drive or simply trying to multi task on the way to their destination?
Most likely all the above as Musk lives by the "watch this, hold my beer" way of thinking. Guy in the video states he still has to administer driver imput when in traffic so what's the point? The technology is unreal and it truly is mind blowing, but at the same time it's scary as hell.
Guess I'm showing my age, but I truly enjoy driving, building and working on cars.....give me a bad ass V8 ANYTHING and back it with a Tremec 6 speed!! My daily commute is about 12 minutes each way and live in a valley that an EV really makes sense but I have ZERO interest in owning one. I'll choose my LS swapped CJ7 Jeep any day of the week.
A Tesla is a "trophy". When I use the word everyone, in this case it's specifically the group that desires to keep up with the Jones.
Everyone wants a trophy house at the Hampton's.
Everyone wants a world class yacht.
Everyone wants a trophy wife.
It's about having something other's desire but can't afford.
It's what's they can fit in their Trophy Case.
A psychological lollypop.
 
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Quick departure from Tesla and the stock market.
Who do you think the self driving Tesla is marketed to? Your wealthy professional friend with a tendency towards look what I've got and look what it can do?? Or is it a transportation option for those that can't drive or simply trying to multi task on the way to their destination?
Most likely all the above as Musk lives by the "watch this, hold my beer" way of thinking. Guy in the video states he still has to administer driver imput when in traffic so what's the point? The technology is unreal and it truly is mind blowing, but at the same time it's scary as hell.
Guess I'm showing my age, but I truly enjoy driving, building and working on cars.....give me a bad ass V8 ANYTHING and back it with a Tremec 6 speed!! My daily commute is about 12 minutes each way and live in a valley that an EV really makes sense but I have ZERO interest in owning one. I'll choose my LS swapped CJ7 Jeep any day of the week.

It will be marketed as competition to Uber and Lyft plus be sold as a SaaS to other corporations and consumers. Right now, the FSD that comes for free is all that I need so I am not in the market for the $8K version. However, if my wife was to get a Tesla, we would likely get FSD as she hates driving.
 
If FSD was actually FSD I’d own a Tesla.
Even George did not have a self driver.

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i don't know what it means. do you?

I'll take a stab at it
" US Treasury are being forced to confront the reality that inflation is persistent, which has led to an increase in yields, recently reaching 4.7% on the 10 year, the highest since November."

going to 5% on the 10 year is a black flag that inflation is fk'n out of control. Treasury is openly admitting that it's not contained.
Now, if you had a ton of money in 10 year at 4.5 or recently bought at 4.7, you'll probably dump those m'fk's as quick as you can, because you are going to lose a ton of money.
Then, you will start to question the authenticity of the reporting numbers and job creation numbers.
Next question, do I want to but a 10 year at 5% when I just lost my ass at 4.7 a few months ago?
So, if everyone is selling. The Treasury, in order to get people to buy, has to raise the 'yield' or interest rate on the 10 year, to 5% OR MORE.. BUT wait there's more.
What if, people don't believe that 5% is accurate. So they sell the 5%'ers.. Then the Treasury has to raise yields even higher, A vicious circle.

"That bond traders will continue to sell bonds, driving yields up, in order to make it difficult for the Fed to cut rates — and essentially forcing the Fed to fight inflation head-on instead of capitulating to the economy and markets (should they crash)."

AND...
AS the 10 yr goes up, so does the 1 yr.. and 30 yr.. which means..
Shit's going to get expensive for the FED, aka, the US taxpayer on paying interest.
I like author's last bit here

"it needs to raise rates to combat inflation and make Treasuries more appealing, but higher rates would exacerbate the already burdensome debt servicing costs and threaten industries reliant on borrowing.
higher rates simply serve up another day of “shit burgers” to the economy, whereas lower rates act as rocket fuel for economic activity (and market confidence)."
 
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I'll take a stab at it
" US Treasury are being forced to confront the reality that inflation is persistent, which has led to an increase in yields, recently reaching 4.7% on the 10 year, the highest since November."

going to 5% on the 10 year is a black flag that inflation is fk'n out of control. Treasury is openly admitting that it's not contained.
Now, if you had a ton of money in 10 year at 4.5 or recently bought at 4.7, you'll probably dump those m'fk's as quick as you can, because you are going to lose a ton of money.
Then, you will start to question the authenticity of the reporting numbers and job creation numbers.
Next question, do I want to but a 10 year at 5% when I just lost my ass at 4.7 a few months ago?
So, if everyone is selling. The Treasury, in order to get people to buy, has to raise the 'yield' or interest rate on the 10 year, to 5% OR MORE.. BUT wait there's more.
What if, people don't believe that 5% is accurate. So they sell the 5%'ers.. Then the Treasury has to raise yields even higher, A vicious circle.

"That bond traders will continue to sell bonds, driving yields up, in order to make it difficult for the Fed to cut rates — and essentially forcing the Fed to fight inflation head-on instead of capitulating to the economy and markets (should they crash)."

AND...
AS the 10 yr goes up, so does the 1 yr.. and 30 yr.. which means..
Shit's going to get expensive for the FED, aka, the US taxpayer on paying interest.
That is a realistic generalization.
As an elderly retired person on a fixed income, I have to ask ? What's in it for me ?
Nothing :(
 
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That is a realistic generalization.
As an elderly retired person on a fixed income, I have to ask ? What's in it for me ?
Nothing :(
What's in it for me ?
all the continuous buttsex that you did NOT want, until you die.
Don't worry, the US gov doesn't use lube, too expensive.
Not just fixed income either, but yes, those get hit hard.