• 7bicycles [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Cars have always been spiritually a rent thing, even if not explicitly legal so.

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    if you are one of the first Cybertruck owners

    If you are one of the first cybertruck owners, the year is 2077 and you can just give one of the homeless kids on the ground floor of your arcology a soyplast boba tea so xir can hack the damn thing for you and disable the remote deactivation.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Seriously, this thing will only become viable for serial production once they invent nanomachine duct tape

      • Maoo [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        I dunno the basic design would be very doable by other manufacturers. They just aren't that good at building cars. Other Teslas made in the US come with a ton of misaligned shit.

    • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Using the possessive form of a pronoun as the singular? Guess pronoun technology will have advanced by then(I am not serious about grammar nitpicking here lol)

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        actually it's very funny to fuck over rich people who buy supercars so no

        • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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          1 year ago

          we shouldn't be doing the whole cars thing regardless, but i'd rather have better precedent for consumer protection and the way ferrari is about their brand and people customizing their own property i think it would be funnier if the precious and elitist fuckwads at the car companies had their noses and IP rubbed in some shit.

      • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        I'm never going to own one so I don't really care. Musk is a shit heel too but the reaction to this "news" gives him more credit then he deserves. This isn't his personal idiotic idea its just some dumb industry norm the corporate entity is following.

    • save_vs_death [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      EU legislation is byzantine, but I wouldn't even a bet a ham sandwich against it being illegal in a huge chunk of the market

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        1 year ago

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  • moujikman
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    1 year ago

    So they can sue you if you resell, but they don't have to buy it back if they don't want to. A prime example of anti-competitive behavior in effort to control competition in the secondary market and to manipulate market prices. They aren't even afraid of anti-trust lawsuits. I'm also guessing they anticipate this product is going to be a failure if they're willing to take such a risky position.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I imagine it's if the new owner contacts Tesla for a repair of some terribly designed part that came broke or breaks too easily, Tesla disables truck

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It's, easy. Once it has burst into flames they will DNA test the charred remains inside and if it's not yours your loved ones are in big trouble.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The remote disable is new.

    A lot of “collector” cars have similar rules.

    Cybertruck has more in common with a Lamborghini than a Hilux.

    • CrushKillDestroySwag
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      1 year ago

      Lambo will blacklist you if you put a decal on there that they don't like, so Tesla's not at that level yet.

      • Deadend [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        That’s only because Elon has no taste. He would if someone did a trans rights cybertruck

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  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    On the one hand I’m like what the fuck, on the other anyone who’s buys one of these bazingamobiles gets what they deserve