Posts by BiffoTheBorg 39 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Dec 2014
I agree, I also had a Made in Fremont 2019 Tesla Model 3 and the build quality was unimpressive.
However, in 2022 I traded it for a Made in China Model Y and the car is much better built, it is widely reported that 2025 Made in Germany Juniper Model Y is even better, so I may trade up to that.
Prior to 2019 I owned a number of BMWs and spent plenty of time and money at the dealers whereas aside from tyres and screen wash the Teslas have cost nothing to maintain or service.
Copilot and ChatGPT got schooled by an Atari 2600’s Video Chess, proving their “grandmaster” swagger is just a 128-byte bluff! These LLMs played like pawns drunk on pixelated wine, blundering into checkmate faster than you can say “insert cartridge.” Stick to crosswords, boys—your chess game’s so weak, it’s practically a knight-mare!
There was never any creditable justification for all this "Elon Musk is literally Hitler" drivel and it is getting so tired and boring now, please can we go back to "Biden is as sharp as a tack"?
Elon Musk was always going to gradually reduce time at DOGE, all Special Government Employees are permitted to work 130 days per year. Elon Musk worked 94 in the first quarter, so has to reduce to 1 or 2 days a week for the remainder of the year.
Tesla cars built at Fremont in the early days continuing up to 2019 had significant quality issues, mostly cosmetic relating to panel gaps and light housing leaks, and some early Model S batteries were below standard. From about 2020 onwards quality was much improved in the USA and Tesla cars built in Shanghai and Berlin have been of good quality from the start of production.
The new version of Tesla Model Y is a significant improvement on what was the world's best selling car in 2023.
People that ordered Roadster and those hoping for a cheaper low end vehicle are very disappointed and frustrated at the delays and Cybertruck, although very ambitious and different failed to deliver the range and price points that were promised and continues to have manufacturing issues due to the uncompromising design.
This year will be critical for Tesla, it will be significant if Cybercab trials in Austin start on schedule in June and are successful and more countries get supervised FSD trials as well as those in USA and China.
Currently, Tesla's share price is $284.95, more than 50% higher than 12 months ago.
"In certain circumstances when Autosteer is engaged, and the driver does not maintain responsibility for vehicle operation and is unprepared to intervene as necessary or fails to recognize when Autosteer is canceled or not engaged, there may be an increased risk of a crash,"
Sounds like the sort of ruling that got us the stern warning on McDonalds coffee, Caution: Contents hot.
Instead of these stupid restrictions couldn't we just stop, um, less capable folk from going out without supervision?
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I have my second Tesla and I am pretty pleased with it, however, I doubt that my next car will be a Tesla, other manufacturers are catching up and the charging network is improving. The Xpeng P5 with lidar, radar, cameras, and USS seems to be in the lead when it comes to cost effective "self driving" meanwhile Tesla thinks it can do it all just using cameras, bonkers.
Reed Group Aylesford had PDP 11/70, Primes, and IBM 360, don't remember any Petes though, but I do recall a Mike.
Before then in the 70's when I was a shift leader at a datacentre in Beckenham the Director responsible for IT used to pay social visits to the computer room whilst puffing away on his pipe. Of course, smoking in the computer room was forbidden but no one ever said as much to the big boss. I always hoped that one day his cloud of smoke would set off the fire alarm, it never did, but one day I had finally had enough and quietly triggered the alarm myself. Profuse apologies from puffing billy and there was no more pipe in the computer room.
Reuters headline yesterday "German automation talent powers Musk's battery move to Europe". Model 3 production last year was saved by 6 plane loads of German robots and "Made in Germany" Teslas is viewed as a big plus. Also Germany has announced huge subsidies for battery development in Germany.
In my experience some folk are much better, one or two orders of magnitude better, at software development than others. Nowadays they get promoted to some role where they don't actually do anything useful. I can't remember now why the IBM Chief Programmer Team system was discarded, I'm sure someone will remind me. However, it seems to me that one good developer with a strong support group can be much more productive than a group following a set of rules, Agifail or whatever, designed primarily to check up on the performance of generally poor team members.
Not sure if the devices reviewed are dedicated to use with the TV or can be used as more general purpose sound delivery devices.
I use a SONOS Playbar, SUB, and a pair of Play 3s and I am very happy with the sound for films and general TV. Very immersive for watching football. Also, jolly handy for playing music and listening to the radio when the TV is off. I used to have big speakers but my wife didn't like the "clutter".
Many of us these days seem content to trade a bit of quality for a lot of convenience.
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