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Cake day: February 27th, 2025

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  • Honestly, visibility is probably the smaller problem. The sheer mass of these monsters is a risk factor in itself. Once you see what a big truck or SUV can do to a smaller car, you realize humans are not likely to survive a collision with one of them. Pedestrian, cyclist, or motorcyclist.

    The irony is that a lot of people like these vehicles because their truck makes them feel safe. That safety is bought by making everyone else unsafe. Sort of like the way drivers of these vehicles drone on about how much better they see everything around them, by making everyone else blind behind them.


  • Being in Europe right now and following the local market, Europeans seem to prefer Chinese models over Tesla for a variety of reasons, Elon Musk being only one of them. Others I’ve heard include:

    Teslas look stale and boring. They are too expensive to be everyman cars, but a 10 year old Tesla looks essentially the same as a new one. Luxury car buyers want to show off.

    Tesla keeps downgrading features after the car was bought. What used to be included requires a subscription later on. Worse, Tesla decides when your car works and when it doesn’t.

    That’s the more important ones I’ve heard. So far, all I’ve seen on the streets are European competitors and Koreans. There is a BYD dealership in town, and it’s very busy, but the vehicles they have on display are American-sized and too big for traffic here.