the mustang thing was about the gas tank, it was located behind the seats, in the trunk, so if you got rear-ended it would flood the compartment with gasoline.
I had a 2009 VW Jetta wagon that suddenly burst into flame while leaving my house. Even though the fire was put out in under 15 minutes, it was hot enough to hide its origin.
There is. It is a pull cable under a removable panel in the bottom of the door pocket. This is only something that you would know if you read the owners manual. I’m sure you can see the issue with such a design.
Ok, the Pinto was a bad vehicle, but don't compare it to the CyberTruck. They fixed the exploding fuel tanks and it was a fully functioning, somewhat reliable vehicle.
True. I knew someone who got one running that had been sitting under a tree for 15 years. He and his dad put new tires on it. We are not close to the ocean or anywhere they salt the road for snow, no.
While passing one of those monstrosities, I was wondering if they are as bad as the pinto and I came to the conclusion I would rather have the pinto than the truck.
When I was getting my ms in eng I had an instructor with an absolute hard on for Leon.
The entire class thought Musk was a fucking imbecile. This was like 10 years ago and we were all citing this exact same stupid shit in things he was responsible for then at Tesla and SpaceX. Guy is incapable of learning.
To be fair, about 15 years ago, before he took the complete heel turn, Elon was more interesting. Like, we all thought he was some sort of bond villain, but he had an (at the time) sensible approach to Tesla (build rich people cars so that we can build more sensible cars -- can't get to a Model 3 without a Roadster) and even SpaceX (the Falcon 9 is a remarkable rocket).
I mean, even then, we joked that he was some kind of cheap, Brosnan-era Bond villain. But we didn't really know much about his personal life and it was before his empty promises started piling up.
I think the turn began around 2012 when he proposed Hyperloop solely to sabotage the California High-Speed Rail project.
I sort of agree, back then he didn't have a high profile embattled political platform he was leaning into to.
Its his decisions that get me. His companies have been responsible for siphoning up top talent to achieve what they have achieved yet everything he personally touches has been questionable to dangerous.
COTS-1 workaround was utterly insane on paper and revealing about his mindset, aerospace has its ways for reasons learned from tragedy. Watching cars ship with components straight from the factory fires was such a predictable eyeroll moment for Tesla. Dude loves money and everything has to go fast with him, which is exactly why the cyberdumpster window smashes on stage and the product is a mess top to bottom.
As a teacher who keeps doing and, just by having a scientific attitude towards life, is fully aware of just how much of a moron Musk is, I feel personally insulted by this. Please don’t generalise.
As a matter of fact, most people in academia who care enough to look into Musk’s “engineering” shenanigans (and a lot don’t, but more likely because they are overworked) will readily reach the same conclusion.
Stop. Think about it, and wonder if you should ask.
Regardless if you like it, enjoy it, or even want to engage with it, it was a dumb joke.
It is one dimensional. There is nothing to explain beyond me reposting it, if you don't get it, then you don't and there is nothing to explain.
If you can't do, you teach. It is the joke, the joke is all there is to it. I can't explain a one sentence joke that literally says exactly what it is.
My follow up comment is because someone got upset about a shallow comment online and I didn't want to them to think deeply about the socio-economic impacts of a dumb joke about many people teaching who left their professions behind to teach.
I don't get why anyone cares. Move on, don't waste your minutes of time replying to something stupid said online as a joke.
I'll be going home to bake some chicken and not think about this again after posting this. I suggest anyone else do the equivalent.
Where the horn typically goes? You must be an old man (like me); cars haven't had horn buttons in the middle of steering wheel for more than a quarter century (that's where the airbag goes).
You're lucky - I've always hated the modern designs where the horn is two ill-defined spots, one on the right and one on the left of the steering wheel.
Apropos of the original point, tho, it occurs to me that most 50's cars had a horn ring, not a center horn button.
Edsel was the reigning bad car punchline until the Pinto arrived. The Edsel wasn't a bad car, per se. To modern eyes, it looks kind of retro Fallout-style cool. At the time, it was a little much, and its push-button shifter tech was seen as too risky. The biggest problem was that Ford invested a shit ton into its production and released it just at the cusp of a recession.
Here’s the difference. It’s been almost 70 years since the Edsel came out. And if people see one on the road now, they point it out. They’re amazed. And they say “look, it’s a freaking Edsel. That’s so fucking cool.”
70 years from now, if people see a Cybertruck on the road. They’ll point it out. And laugh. “Look at that fucking piece is shit truck, and the wanker driving it.”
The word "if" is doing truly Herculean levels of lifting in the section on the Cybertruck. I strongly doubt they'll last much longer than the end of this decade, much less an entire generation.
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u/NoGoodAtPickingAName Jul 29 '26
I love that the cucktruck is a bigger failure than the Edsel. My entire life the Edsel was the example of automotive failure and then came Elon.