cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/72601186
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The caps are not attached to reduce our carbon footprint but to reduce overall pollution. I don't like when people paint over such issues with a too-broad brush.
Also what idiocy did Me-me-me-lon come up with now?
Car that breaks your spine when you drive it
He built a wannabe K.I.T.T., I mean the jumping, no talking luckily. Also as fake as K.I.T.T. Its only purpose was to push the stock, like always and to do anything but a compact, cost efficient EV for the masses.
No talking? All the new cars have Grok built in unfortunately. They do, in fact, talk.
“Set the cabin temperature to 72 degrees.”
Car: “The holocaust didn’t happen”
I like the caps being attached because it means you can't lose the cap. It didn't even occur to me that it might have to do with littering
Never in my life have I actually lost a cap, but I have been splashed in the face multiple times by those idiotic attached caps.
Some bored telsa engineers got drunk with space x engineers, then Elon found out
The anti-EU narratives have been pushed so widely, also by Musk himself, that even comics like the one above are spreading them uncritically. The tethered caps are not about reducing carbon footprint but about reducing waste in our environment and high costs of cleaning efforts. Yet another EU myth, especially popular among tech bros btw.
Yeah - they did a survey on european beaches and checked which plastic items they were finding. And then they tried to find a way to solve the issue by regulating the production. They did find a lot of bottle caps and plastic q-tips and then they did something against that. That is a really good way of doing things.
The attached cap is also really convenient. Never have to worry about dropping, losing, or dirtying the cap
Is anyone else mortified by how such an obvious and blatant attention grab can so easily captivate the attention of literally every circle of the internet?
I actually didn't see any news on this except for some coworkers asking if I saw it. First time I saw it was yesterday.. on lemmy. So maybe we should do better here and not talk about it, like at all? Delete this post and move on?
Everything I’ve seen has just been about how stupid this thing is.
Heard it was just compressed air?
it's about plastic pollution not carbon
But like, still, yeah... "pLaStIc StRaWs"
It is just compressed air, though it's an insane amount of energy stored in that form. The number that will actually have that function will be so small that it probably doesn't matter, though the emissions of car-centric transport are absolutely crazy. give me more trains!
Sorry, best we can do is reinvent a bus for the 50th time and make it get stuck at a red light.
Tesla and other EV companies tend to have a bunch of carbon credits earned (from being EV companies) which they sell to polluters for the right to pollute.
It earns EV companies a lot of money.
Musk has perfected the art of bedazzling people with precision controlled compressed gaslighting.
Billionaires have no fucks to give about anything except mean tweets. They weirdly seem to care a hell of a lot about those.
The Tesla flying car is clearly a Spectacle for Fools, but the gas being used is basically compressed air and doesn't contribute to our greenhouse gas problem.
There's plenty of other aspects to this to make fun of that are factually accurate.
I don't get the point of this comic tbh. I'm no Tesla apologist, but it's compressed air. Besides we all know this is in no way really going to be widely available.
I'm also pretty sure the demo car doesn't have a heavy battery with the full range. Probably stripped down to the absolute minimum weight to pull off these stunts
You can see the underside of the vehicle during the demo. It's hollow with a metal lattice.
That thing uses nitrogen to do that silly bunnyhop, but compressing all that nitrogen is what has the carbon footprint.
I could be done with solar power. Of all the criticism Musk deserves, the carbon footprint of a one-off show is not in the top 30.
When it's the prototype of a vehicle feature, scalability is expected.
Of course, this was just for show, as a distraction from other nasty things that were being done behind the curtains, but it's the principle. Don't show it unless you mean it.
So this Tesla rocket flying car thing I'm hearing about is actually taken seriously?
Like, actual human beings with brains actually believe this shit will happen? I mean, come on now... You have a brain, evolution given, please, use it?
This is another musk thing. Elmo tells obvious lies, his groupies will repeat it as fact ad nauseum, the news sites will obviously publish said nonsense as fact because of course, and three weeks later people will have forgotten about the next bullshit lie from Elmo. Rinse and repeat, he has pulled this bullshit off dozens of times now and he keeps getting away with it. Other people would have been sued into the ground but Elmo? Nope. I guess the guy has charisma or something (the something doing all the lifting because claiming that musk has charisma is just idiotic)
That's not flying. That's falling in style.
It's a cool demo, but if I were holding Tesla stock I'd be kinda peeved
Yeah, because they're obviously dumping a lot of engineering money into it, but it's something that will never be practical, will probably never be legal to use on actual roads, and will never sell in any significant numbers.
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