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KayLeadfoot

@ KayLeadfoot @fedia.io

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  • Canada Freezes $43M in Suspicious Tesla Rebates. Tesla’s Claim of 1.5 Sales Per Minute Prompts Government to “Fully Examine Each Claim Individually.”

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  • First comment on the thread that made me laugh out loud, 10 points

  • Canada Freezes $43M in Suspicious Tesla Rebates. Tesla’s Claim of 1.5 Sales Per Minute Prompts Government to “Fully Examine Each Claim Individually.”

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  • Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaair point XD

  • Canada Freezes $43M in Suspicious Tesla Rebates. Tesla’s Claim of 1.5 Sales Per Minute Prompts Government to “Fully Examine Each Claim Individually.”

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  • The rebate is quite large. $5,000 or thereabouts in most cases. The company also fronts that money to the customer, and then claims reimbursement from the government.

    Have you ever known any business to delay in collecting $5,000, particularly when it is sitting as a liability on their books until they collect? Much less to do that more than 8,000 times?

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  • I love these birds too!

    ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵇᵉᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ⁿᵃᵐᵉ

  • Canada Freezes $43M in Suspicious Tesla Rebates. Tesla’s Claim of 1.5 Sales Per Minute Prompts Government to “Fully Examine Each Claim Individually.”

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  • For my money, that's the most probable reasoning for why Tesla tried this.

    Falls under the "cool motive, still fraud" umbrella, but it makes the most sense.

  • Canada Freezes $43M in Suspicious Tesla Rebates. Tesla’s Claim of 1.5 Sales Per Minute Prompts Government to “Fully Examine Each Claim Individually.”

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  • Freudian slip, but it does low-key work as word-play!

  • Canada Freezes $43M in Suspicious Tesla Rebates. Tesla’s Claim of 1.5 Sales Per Minute Prompts Government to “Fully Examine Each Claim Individually.”

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  • Oh lord the news has him bricked up like a Cybertruck after a routine software update.

  • Zeekr’s New G-Pilot Aims to Fix Their Old Self-Driving System's Mistakes... We Have Video that Shows the Difference

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  • Just announcing a follow-up self-driving system on their first really pretty bad system has them on an escape trajectory with their stock price.

    I'm starting to think Tesla set all the wrong examples for the auto industry.

  • Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch

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  • Can't deny any of that.

    Have I mentioned, I'm broadly surprised by how reasonable the conversations are here versus Reddit? Thanks for that, I think I misunderstood your initial comment

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  • Haha, well, that shows my reading comprehension level!

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  • I know him!!! He featured heavily in that one Walter Isaacson biography, The Codebreaker. About Dr. Doudna of course.

    Did he get his PHD? Well, good on him. I see China has a better anti-recidivism program than the USA has. Last I heard, he was doing hard time in Chinese prison for mad scientist stuff.

  • Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch

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  • (Edit: Ope, I think I misunderstood you, my bad. Disregard my reply.)

    What a world we're living in!

    Observing a technical deficiency in a robotics platform requires political considerations. Even when a car drives into a fucking wall at 40MPH on camera, people are asking about the camera man's political party affiliation and not what's wrong with the car.

    Wild!

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  • Back when Elon made avoiding LiDAR a core part of his professional personality, it was fairly expensive. But as any tech genius can tell ya, component prices drop rapidly for electronics.

    Now, radar is dirty cheap. Everything has radar. Radar was removed from Teslas. A radar sensor for my truck is $75, probably much less at scale orders.

    LiDAR sensors cost anywhere from $500-$1,500 for a vehicle of this type, near as I can tell (this type being Level 2 autonomy rather than something like a Waymo. A well-kitted out self-driving vehicle has 4 LiDAR sensors).

    Here is the LiDAR module currently used on the Mercedes S-Class, it's $400 used: https://www.ebay.com/itm/285816360464

    It's a hideously small cost-savings in 2025 for a luxury vehicle like a Tesla. Any rational company would've reversed course after the first stationary-object-strike fatality. Tesla is not a rational company.

  • Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch

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  • Someone else had an interesting take elsewhere on the thread, and that got me looking.

    Here is that mural you're looking for, it's in South Carolina, took me like 60 seconds of searching to find one so I am sure there are others: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tunnelvision

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  • Y'all excused, don't sweat it! I sure did write the article you did not read. No worries, reading bores me sometimes, too.

    Your take is one of the sillier opinions that I've come across in a minute. I won't waste any more time explaining it to you than that. The test does not strike informed individuals as pointless.

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  • Who downvoted this? XD This brings me joy

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  • Haha, oncoming train? You'd be lucky to avoid a slow-rolling freight train at a clearly lit crossing in a Tesla using FSD.

    Case in point:

    https://youtu.be/h4f-crzpZ9w?t=11

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  • "If you're hearing this, you are the MEEP MEEP!"