KayLeadfoot

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[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

As a Toyota truck owner, can confirm.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Kei Kei's delivery service.

I sometimes feel shortchanged as an American (no healthcare, FUUUUCK), but I only get real mad about it when I think about how we don't get Hiluxes and Kei trucks.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

MFW I say how much I love my Toyota Tacoma on the Fediaverse.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

It's Bill Burr's 21st century and we're all just living in it.

He's crushing it on Star Wars stuff, his comedy is on fucking fire, and weirdly he's one of a small axis of Americans (bad word choice lol) who has the backbone to resist our descent into fascism. I agree with him and I fuckin hate it, bring back buttons, I don't' want to drive an iPad.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

That's how I pay server costs :)

Feel free to use ad block, doesn't hurt my feelings one bit. AdBlock Plus is still good. I'm shocked to meet a programmer who doesn't already block ads TBH!

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The odds of a Ram 1500 driver drunk-dialling the number on the popup ad blocking their backup cam is low... but never zero!

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Pissing match. Elon and Beez are famously pricks to each other. Beez often is an angel investor into any credible threat to Tesla or SpaceX, presumably, because pissing match.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

That's a very good point. The prior excuses that it was an unintended software glitch, those excuses don't make sense now that it has become obvious that it is an incremental rollout from Jeep to Dodge to Ram trucks. I'll update that, good idea!

 

What a perfectly garbage feature.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago

The Ram 1500 is the official car of "more than one, but not so many they take your license away" -- both DUIs and beers before going to work.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the other "Remind me later" button

 

Well folks, it finally happened. The screen in your pickup truck… your last bastion of peace from the chaos of unskippable advertisements… now plays popup ads. Not even subtle ones. We’re talking full-dash, head-unit-commandeering infomercial panels in your RAM 1500, like you’re driving a Times Square billboard on wheels.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, RIGHT, that XD

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've been thinking about exactly this... you could probably get an apples to apples comparison, by comparing only a specific model year.

IE, how did every 2023 car perform in the year 2024? Then, parse that by the vehicle's price, or maybe by its propulsion type, maybe both. THAT would be how an honest study of the question would go.

Of course, Tesla knows that, they can afford really great data scientists. Makes you wonder why they run their obviously flawed safety study instead.

 

This is the same system that Tesla fans have been insisting for years is a better-than-human driver.

... What the fuck? This system isn't better than a learner's permit holder

 

Temu Tony Stark is apparently terrible at leading teams for AI development.

... Which is wild, because that was his whole qualification for rewiring the federal government.

 

To quote a random commenter:

"Well it is impressive... impressively bad."

 

This Tesla Robotaxi demo video is a mess.

Watch as the car makes a left turn from the wrong lane, ignoring a red light. The safety operator steps in, and the car comes to a stop… right in the middle of the intersection.

Eventually, it completes the illegal turn after blocking traffic for 45 seconds, which raises the question, what exactly is the safety operator there for?

 

TL;DR: Tesla self-driving tech is becoming less safe per mile, according to Tesla’s own data.

Q1 2025 was 2.5% worse than Q1 2024.

Q2 2025 was 2.8% worse than Q2 2024.

Not a great look.

 

Robotaxi! It's like a regular cab, but less safe.

Don't worry, there's even still a stranger sitting up front. That's because it's less safe.

Anyway, Tesla stock is trading up with 5 times the market cap of Uber and maybe 20 times the market cap of the Ford Motor Company, so mission accomplished.

 

Clowny performance.

Particularly considering that the vehicle in front of the two Tesla Robotaxis is a Waymo, and the Waymo uses the parking lot to safely drop off its passengers, just like a human cabby would.

 

The new Grok 4 didn't make it halfway through its first day on the job before hurling racial conspiracy theories at users.

This is the same Grok that Elon Musk promises will be added to Tesla vehicles by "next week at the latest."

You'll remember that Grok 3 was briefly shut down just earlier this week for a different bunch of antisemitic outbursts. This doesn't bode well for the state of AI safety guardrails or Q/A at xAI.

 

LOL, ready to roll out to the whole Tesla fleet before next week, amirite?

 

I'm not sure the SS trim stands for "super sport," y'all.

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