CW: Carbrain out the wazoo
I’m a psychologist who drives all over Arizona to do psychological assessments.
She has to drive a monster truck to appointments???
My partner hates seeing this. Looks like a block on the road and makes you question if you are hallucinating.
When you knowingly and willingly drive a Swastikar, you’re going to receive negative attention.
Because people doesn’t know how useful the Swastikar is, they do everything that a chinese car do, cost more money but is not chinese!
It’s almost impossible for the average person to purchase a chinese EV in the US, mostly due to high tariffs, trade barriers, and regulatory roadblocks. I’d love to see the market opened up to competition from chinese companies.
The author mentions getting tired and having to take rest breaks while driving their normal car. I’d argue that if you’re too tired to drive, you’re way too tired to supervise FSD.
I get it, having a stressful and difficult job followed by a long drive home is hella hard. But at least, when you’re driving, you feel tired. You feel the need to pull over and rest, which is objectivelly more safe. In FSD mode, what happens if you fall asleep? Maybe the car will sense it, but what if you’re dozing off doing microsleep with your eyes open? (i’m not sure how common it is, it happens to me sometimes)
At least in a normal car your feet are on the pedals and hands on the wheel if you doze off. In FSD, you have to add the reaction time of a waking human to the time it takes to move your hands and feet to the wheel and pedals, and then you can apply a correction. It’s… geez.
she wouldn’t have the need for a self driving car if worked less hours, lived closed to her job and used public transportation to go to work (in case her job couldn’t be home office’d).
the thing is that this is essentially a capitalist and american problem.
The problem is NOT! capitalism.
We already have self-driving vehicles, they are called public transit
I used to live in Phoenix, Arizona and I don’t blame her for driving. They NEED better public transit there. On the occasion my wife and I couldn’t drive, it was often faster to walk for literal hours than take the bus. Phoenix is the definition of sprawl. It upset me so much when people were complaining about the city extending the light rail.
All that said, this article is pure cope. She bought a truck that makes a political statement and is upset that people don’t like that it makes a political statement.
The Cybertruck then became the right vehicle for me In 2024, a few months after my Model 3 lease ended, I knew I wanted to purchase my next car. Since the vehicle is technically for my business, it needed to be big enough for a specific tax code. The Cybertruck was the only one that fit the bill.
This is the real joke in this story. She bought it because they rigged the tax cuts in favor of musky and the auto industry. She’s dumb though, everything she is saving on expenses she dumped on the truck.
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On the days I travel, I often have a full schedule of Social Security disability psychological assessments to conduct.
This person’s job is looking for excuses to cut people’s disability benefits.
Since the vehicle is technically for my business, it needed to be big enough for a specific tax code. The Cybertruck was the only one that fit the bill.
Picked the stupid thing as some kind of weird tax dodge?
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving significantly reduces the stress of driving all over Arizona.
Definitely driving without paying attention to the road
This is probably the average cybertruck owner, I’ll start flipping them off too. Fuck them.
The funniest part is that tesla self driving is objectively unsafe. There’s a reason other auto manufacturers artificially limit their systems, which aren’t far behind and in some cases are on par or arguably ahead of teslas self driving. This is also part of the reason musk is getting involved in politics, to censure the nhtsa from reporting on accidents and deaths due to his systems and remove regulations slowing him from deploying his unsafe garbage
Like you can buy a Mercedes with drive pilot, which is a much more measured approach to self driving and fully hands off in tested and approved markets. You can buy a Cadillac with super cruise which does something similar, ford blue cruise, bmw driving assistant, etc
Notice the difference? Unlike teslas “beta” full self driving these work in managed conditions, either limited to geographic areas, road conditions, etc. they’re still bougie as fuck, dumb as shit relative to public transit, and ridiculously expensive, but if you’re going to trust your actual ass life to some robot shit maybe go with one of the ones that’s terrified of the liability involved and not the one run by a baby that will sweep your death under the rug.
But man a public transit system would just be the absolute worst right? Better keep dumping our money into making tons of shitty cars that can barely drive themselves. I get to spend 1/4 of a mortgage on a goofy looking piece of shit that breaks if you tow something with it, or if a scooter hits it, or if someone puts a magnet on it but at least I don’t have to sit near any poor people on my way to work
There are so many cars with adaptive cruise control and lane keeping assist, and many have even more features for highway driving, that are not a giant dumb truck. ‘Road warriors’ are some of the most car brained people to have ever existed.
@culpritus @krakenfury I mean they think that driving a car 4 hours to work is a sane solution.
Business Insider published this woman’s blog post, as one does. Qui bono? https://drangelakenzslowe.com/
Also, of course she’s the kind of person to hide that she gave a TEDx talk and not a TED talk until the last possible moment on her website.
I first turned to Tesla because I needed a car with self-driving features
They then go on to explain that the long drives were making them tired.
Or:
I’m overworking myself so much that even just traveling was forcing me to drive to the point of exhaustion.
Ever think maybe we’re headed in a bad direction with self-driving…
Wouldn’t need to work so hard if you weren’t making massive car payments
Over the next three years, Ma’Lady and I drove more than 35,000 miles
SHE’S ACTING LIKE DRIVING 20 MINUTES AWAY IS GOING TO KILL HERShe spent all this breath talking about her exhaustion driving all over the place and then I got to this part and I had to count the zeros to make sure I read it right.
To be clear, I bought the truck before he became a polarizing political figure.
In 2024
