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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Many many years ago I worked a job where we had to keep an eye on the call center call queue/employees call status on the phone.

Someone always has to keep an eye on it, so if you need to go for a break, even just to use the washroom, if you're the only one on shift, you asked one of the team leads to watch it.

Had been like that for years.

Well, we had a brand new manager for our team who was an offsite manager at another call center, and my other coworker was in a very long meeting that day so I was all alone watching things.

I was really hungry, feeling sick from it, so I asked one of the team leads as usual to watch things while I took a break and went across the street to grab some fast food and come back.

Well, while I was gone for like 10minutes, the manager had called our desk (we have voice mail) and realized no one was there.

He reamed me out for having left the desk unattended, and how I should have waited for my coworkers meeting to end which wasn't ending anytime soon.

Didn't care that I'd had a TL cover for me as we'd always done.

Next day, HR calls me into their office and puts me on formal notice for it.

I quit the next day. Fuck that shit.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Were you on EI still when you found the job?

That'd be a fun story to tell them why you need to restart it.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I think I saw a snippet from his biography where Franz (head designer) convinced Elon to make the car so it could also have a steering wheel so as to not get fucked if fsd doesn't work out.

Supposedly took a lot of effort to convince him.

Guess that didn't pan out in the end. Nothing about that car is designed for non robotaxi use.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Why would having sex at a party make it trafficking.

It's just paid for underage sex at a party.

Unless she was trafficked at the party by someone else, but I don't think that gets the person paying charged with trafficking?

I guess that makes your comment woke.

There goes the Google monopoly case.

Makes sense about NCAP ya. It'll get tested eventually we'll just have to wait.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You seem nice

It comes and goes.

Have you seen this crash yet where all 4 participants survived?

https://www.motor1.com/news/731526/tesla-cybertruck-crash-auction/

It's trashed, but you can see it got wrecked up to the passenger compartment on the front, and the rear is missing all the way into the back wheels.

Neither of those distances is insignificant for a crumple area. That thing had to be flipping and they absorbed that energy.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not that Tesla didn't choose to have it tested, the agencies haven't wanted to test it yet.

They don't test every vehicle and they don't always test what they think will be low volume vehicles.

Teala could sponsor it, but it's not like every manufacturer sponsors a vehicle that the testing agencies decide not to test.

For example, I don't believe the model 3 highland has been tested again after all the changes, and if it has, not all the testing agencies yet.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

But... it does have crumple zones.

The entire front and rear castings are designed to shatter in a high energy collision and crumple.

The size of a crumple zone isn't as important as how it absorbs the energy and dispenses it.

You could have a 20foot crumple zone that's empty and it's be useless.

You can see it crumpled here. They've also posted a different video on the official X account of a crash test but I won't post that to avoid linking them. here.

Since you got something so utterly basic wrong and posted it as true, I can only assume the entire post is fabricated.

Edit: took a screen shot instead of video. It crumples all the way past the front wheels

I was kinda hoping it'd always stay like this.

 

The company’s letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stated the door handles could allow water to enter the circuit board assembly, which may lead to the doors opening unexpectedly.

According to Volkswagen, the production halt could last until the beginning of next year as it works to resolve the issue.

 

This was a really good interview, worth the watch!

 

It doesn't say what was changed but that makes it a great price again.

It also really messes up the pricing between the 3 RWD which doesn't qualify and the AWD that does since it's only a 1k difference now. I wonder if we'll see them lower the RWD or potentially raise the AWD price?

 

So both Rivian and Tesla have or say they are going to have range extenders for their trucks, but in both cases even if they are removable and rentable they are huge as trucks are huge. In teslas case it seems to be a permanent change though.

What about commuter cars though?

One thing we really need is cheaper in city commuters and those don't need a long range. That brings costs down and gets more people into EVs, but those will get relegated to 2nd cars in many cases.

If those commuter cars could go to a shop and get an extender added in the trunk though that would make them much more capable of longer trips as well while keeping costs down.

If the battery rental is similar or less to renting a car for the same period then people would opt to use their own car for the longer trip and all the personal comforts that provides.

The batteries would be much smaller as well for a smaller vehicle.

 

Really cool look inside the factory!

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