Elon Evil Emperor of Transportation
Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 5 months ago to Philosophy
Excerpt:
"An interesting item in the news the other day got almost no attention.
The thing that got attention in the news was the news that a “ . . .problem with Tesla servers on Friday once again left hundreds of drivers unable to enter and operate their electric cars.”
No analysis of the implications was offered.
Ergo, it’s well to consider them.
For the past 120 years or so – since the first cars began rolling under their own power – it was taken as a given that the people who owned them controlled them. The keys were a physical symbol of ownership because he who held the keys controlled the car. Parents would threaten to withhold the keys from their teenaged drivers, if their grades slipped, for instance.
But once you were no longer a kid, if you held the keys then the car was yours. You used to see dangling-suggestively keys in car ad copy; the implication being – this could be yours (and by implication, no one else’s).
Not anymore.
Not if it’s one of Elon’s electric cars. Because Elon holds the keys – and you never will, no matter that you’re not a teenager, you paid for the car and Elon isn’t your father. But he is your overlord. He and his fellow managers intend to lord it over all of us – and electric cars are the perfect vehicle for that.
They have two plugs – one physical, the other virtual.
You use the physical plug to charge the thing up.
They use the virtual plug to determine how much and how fast you’re allowed to charge up – and (cue Emperor Palpatine voice) many other things, besides."
"An interesting item in the news the other day got almost no attention.
The thing that got attention in the news was the news that a “ . . .problem with Tesla servers on Friday once again left hundreds of drivers unable to enter and operate their electric cars.”
No analysis of the implications was offered.
Ergo, it’s well to consider them.
For the past 120 years or so – since the first cars began rolling under their own power – it was taken as a given that the people who owned them controlled them. The keys were a physical symbol of ownership because he who held the keys controlled the car. Parents would threaten to withhold the keys from their teenaged drivers, if their grades slipped, for instance.
But once you were no longer a kid, if you held the keys then the car was yours. You used to see dangling-suggestively keys in car ad copy; the implication being – this could be yours (and by implication, no one else’s).
Not anymore.
Not if it’s one of Elon’s electric cars. Because Elon holds the keys – and you never will, no matter that you’re not a teenager, you paid for the car and Elon isn’t your father. But he is your overlord. He and his fellow managers intend to lord it over all of us – and electric cars are the perfect vehicle for that.
They have two plugs – one physical, the other virtual.
You use the physical plug to charge the thing up.
They use the virtual plug to determine how much and how fast you’re allowed to charge up – and (cue Emperor Palpatine voice) many other things, besides."
the very optimistic range is 273 miles at that price. The long range (optimistically 334 miles) is $53,690.
These include the insane 'delivery fee' of $1,200.
I got a new convertible top on my car for less than that idiotic fee.
Then you still have to add state and local sales taxes.
(The scumbags at Tesla advertise lower prices by taking a
'gas savings' reduction.)
I agree, it is criminal to steal from the average taxpayer to
discount the price for someone who can afford $50,000 or
more for unreliable transportation.
Just to the rice paddies before dawn and back after dark.
Commies go home (to District of Communism, New Pek-ork, Commicago, and Commifornia.)
By the time all of Joe's no more motorcars choo choo dream costing trillion$ and trillion$ reaches full fruition, his starving deplorables shall be asking, "What is this soup kitchen Soylent Green?"
That way, if you run the trains fast enough, choo choos can get everyone to shifts that start at 6 and 7 and 8 and 9 and repeat the process all day long! Chug! Chug! Chug! Woo-woo-woo!
Just keep kids from playing in the choo choo streets.
It's a world only Senile Sleepy Joe can imagine.
The tube amplifiers we build are very simple in comparison to most technology today and customers still surprise me occasionally.
I don't have the ability to do updates to our products via the net, but I can understand the appeal.
(I was in IT in a previous career.)
I learned a long time ago, bureaucrats and conniving industrialists always plant the seeds of their own defeat. They get involved in so many rules and regulations that you can always find a self destruct mechanism they inadvertently planted. Like the man says, once you live by telling lies, you can never know when one of them will bite you.
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