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  • I’d say it is a bit more complicated than that for car doors.

    Car doors work fine on every car but a Tesla. They aren’t some new technology invented by Tesla where design flaws like this are understandable. Tesla just does things so badly that they invent brand new dangers that only exist with their vehicles.

    You don’t want it to fail and come open

    That isn’t what “fail open” means. It doesn’t mean that the moment the battery dies all the doors fly open. It means that when the battery dies the doors aren’t latched shut like a bank safe.

    At a minimum, the key should offer a way to open the car from the outside when the battery is dead. It’s completely asinine to put the only emergency latch on the inside of the car where you can’t use it, especially since it is hidden so deep most people can’t find it without the manual.

    What’s controversial or unpopular about what I said?

    You’re giving Elon Musk’s awful cars the benefit of a doubt by pretending that this isn’t a completely reckless design flaw that should never have existed in the first place, and you are deliberately misinterpreting what “fail open” means to make it sound like a ridiculous solution instead of the industry safety best practice that it actually is.

    Also, you’re complaining about downvotes, so expect even more now I guess.








  • Are you suggesting that this war should be taught in schools as it is happening?

    There’s absolutely no responsible way to do that. The fog of war keeps us from being able to report on this from a historical perspective because there’s little to no way to verify anything as fact.

    Encouraging kids to pay attention to current events, and teaching them relevant lessons from the past is important, but we can’t risk misinforming a whole generation because we couldn’t wait for the smoke to clear before we started committing what we think we know to the history books.

    As for teaching about this conflict in the future, you’re never going to escape the reality that people will feel disconnected the further away they are from the actual event they are learning about.

    You’re either too early to teach verifiable truths, or you’re too late for the truth to feel real.










  • I mean, they accomplished the first part mostly because they are cheap connected speakers, but I have yet to meet anyone who doesn’t absolutely loath their home assistants. Got rid of mine (Both Google and Amazon) not just because they are a privacy nightmare, but because they are completely fucking infuriating to work with.

    The exact same phrase is never guaranteed to have the same results. The assistant hardly ever answers a question right. It routinely takes repeated attempts to get it to control any of my connected lights. It responds to people that weren’t talking to it. I could keep going…

    If they tried charging me for it before I rage quit them, I would have just rage quit sooner.