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  1. SwampNut

    Why Do Teslas Keep Smashing Emergency Vehicles? (Warning: Graphic images in article)

    They repeated everything was still unknown. No update, just another blathering hit piece.
  2. SwampNut

    Why Do Teslas Keep Smashing Emergency Vehicles? (Warning: Graphic images in article)

    I had no idea that your claim that nobody has done a study actually meant that there's not a national standard.
  3. SwampNut

    Why Do Teslas Keep Smashing Emergency Vehicles? (Warning: Graphic images in article)

    It wasn't "my DOT" I was working with multiple DOTs across the country. I don't know the specific results of the testing, just that I was there for presentations on the testing by various DOTs and third party industry organizations. I was involved in video systems for traffic management...
  4. SwampNut

    Why Do Teslas Keep Smashing Emergency Vehicles? (Warning: Graphic images in article)

    You are completely wrong on that, so now I imagine that everything else you've said is founded on equally incorrect assumptions? Source: I ran a company that worked in DOT safety for a few years, and worked directly with safety engineers.
  5. SwampNut

    Why Do Teslas Keep Smashing Emergency Vehicles? (Warning: Graphic images in article)

    AP screwed up on me today, and took me off guard. In its defense, it was a weird intersection where the lanes on the far side do not match the lanes on the side I was coming from. It has to do a jog inside the intersection, with no curve or warning in the lines. It tried to go from...
  6. SwampNut

    Why Do Teslas Keep Smashing Emergency Vehicles? (Warning: Graphic images in article)

    Actually that means it’s infrequent. ICE fires and non Tesla crashes are so common they stopped reporting them.
  7. SwampNut

    Why Do Teslas Keep Smashing Emergency Vehicles? (Warning: Graphic images in article)

    You can have my steering wheel weight when you pry it from my cold dead fingers (after I crash). It doesn't mean I'm not paying attention, just like having a useless hand on the wheel doesn't mean you are paying attention. I'm also enjoying the battle of wits with Elon. They figured out how...
  8. SwampNut

    Why Do Teslas Keep Smashing Emergency Vehicles? (Warning: Graphic images in article)

    My bet would be that we find out the driver was drunk, and then of course MSM will stop covering it because it's not a TESLAS BAD story. Aside from that, you'd have to be a complete moron to let AP keep control in any sort of non-normal, well marked situation. I've put over 16k on our car, and...
  9. SwampNut

    Elon Talks Economy, Possible Discounting, Demand Issues, Stock Sales, and TSLA on on Twitter Spaces

    What are you talking about? Do you believe that car loans and mortgages are not consumer debt? Is there a reason you didn't include the second sentence, which is what I'm talking about? Credit card debt, student loans, auto loans, mortgages, and payday loans are all examples of consumer debt.
  10. SwampNut

    Elon Talks Economy, Possible Discounting, Demand Issues, Stock Sales, and TSLA on on Twitter Spaces

    Only true if the cost of the debt is close to or exceeds the income potential of the assets, and/or the possibility of needing the asset. I'll have pulled around 8-10% from investments this year and am paying 2.3-4% on debt. I'd be an idiot to convert the income to a payoff.
  11. SwampNut

    Elon Talks Economy, Possible Discounting, Demand Issues, Stock Sales, and TSLA on on Twitter Spaces

    Never, and I specifically used the words "if shit really hits the fan." Meaning a real collapse, anarchy, etc. If there's just a mild recession and more inflation, then debt still wins because you pay it back in cheaper fiat currency. There's no downside to debt in recession, and it's...
  12. SwampNut

    Elon Talks Economy, Possible Discounting, Demand Issues, Stock Sales, and TSLA on on Twitter Spaces

    that’s part of my disappointment in laying down cheap debt. We could have been making way more on investments. And there’s a certain comfort in having tangible assets if things go really poorly. And if shit really hits the fan, debts are wiped out anyway.
  13. SwampNut

    Elon Talks Economy, Possible Discounting, Demand Issues, Stock Sales, and TSLA on on Twitter Spaces

    Which is totally new, they used to buy at well over retail. That can only go on for a short time obviously.
  14. SwampNut

    Elon Talks Economy, Possible Discounting, Demand Issues, Stock Sales, and TSLA on on Twitter Spaces

    Being heavily in debt during those times makes me feel better and is profitable. I am unhappy that I paid off too much debt in the last few years. Now is the time to profit from investment/savings and if shit hits the fan--good, I've still got my cash and metals. Have you done a sale quote...
  15. SwampNut

    Elon Talks Economy, Possible Discounting, Demand Issues, Stock Sales, and TSLA on on Twitter Spaces

    I posted this on another forum on 11/3. I cannot believe that the supposed experts took another month to start saying it, and some idiot like me, nowhere near cars and retail, sees it early? OR--they purposely hid the looming problem. I can say for sure that the Jeep dealer near me was...
  16. SwampNut

    Elon Talks Economy, Possible Discounting, Demand Issues, Stock Sales, and TSLA on on Twitter Spaces

    Lenders have quietly dropped the "one car" rule and are financing sequential purchases without a trade-in. Meaning, people buying a new car with new financing, because they are upside down on the existing car and can't trade it in. They KNOW the people will default--on the OLD loan. So fuck...
  17. SwampNut

    China "asks" Musk not to sell Starlink in China

    Of course. I do wonder where one draws an ethical line between a state's "right" to control its people and the land mass it owns, versus the idea of human rights. I personally lean towards anarchy and can't yet find any reason he can't ignore them...


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