i see your point in today’s fast-paced lifestyle, but - outside of the whole tesla/swasticar diner ethos - i think it could be a fun idea. especially in car centric, home of the drive-in diner, Los Angeles.
having grown up in the time of A&W drive-in and still a huge fan of Sonic (the closest one being Key West),.i could see this idea of electro-charge, retro drive-in, destination burger joint being a thing.
the whole Tesla thing can die in a lithium fire, but the '50s style car hop place to charge up your “hot rod” is just too American Grafitti for the modern world to pass up.
YM(and mileage between charges)MV.
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I don’t doubt that the drive-in could be fun but maybe once a month? Maybe once every other month? It would still have to be good to get repeat business. The supermarket model works because you’re going there anyway and charging time is about the same as shopping time. This just seems like a gimmick that will be popular for a while, then people will quit going.
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Anyone know if Tesla charging stations have built-in security cameras like the cars do?
…asking for a friend. 
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Apparently Teslas have been big sellers in LA, so there’s a real market for a diner where you can get a meal while your car recharges. Whether a businessman as poor as Elno could have made it work is another issue. Musk rendering his brand toxic changes the viability of the whole thing, however.
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liberalsarecool
Get out. #Tesla #TSLA
Elon is so leveraged, that if TSLA is worth $120 per share, he is penniless.
The con game is over. The company never evolved. Elon deserves his fate.
Get desperate Musk out of politics.
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I just read an article about how he’s promising to crank out 5000 of his “humanoid robots” in '25. That’s THIS YEAR. It’s going to be Fine because they’re just going to Speed Up Innovation.
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I’m sure Trump will charge him with terrorism.
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That whole Tumblr is golden.
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Wow, willing to run over strangers to defend the honor and profits of a billionaire sociopath who doesn’t even know or care he exists and would never in a million years lift a finger to help him in any way. That’s a whole new level of bootlicking.
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Probably not always, but they’re owned by Nexstar Media Group, the largest tv station owner in the US. Between them and Sinclair, they own over 80% of local tv stations in the country. When you see those compilation videos showing local tv news stories that are all identical? This is why. And yes, they’re both conservative, although Sinclair is worse.
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Even if Tesla did manage to bring their janky robots to market this year, it’s pretty hard to imagine how they’d make any money with them.
This Chinese company is already selling their robots to the public for about $16K, and they look a lot more capable than Tesla’s.
But of course “capability” is relative and it doesn’t seem likely to me that any of these humanoid robots will actually be doing useful tasks in the near future. Boston Dynamics has been selling their robot dogs to the public for about 6 years now and have yet to find anything better for them to do than walk around with a camera either as a security robot or as a way to check the status of remote infrastructure. Something that could be much better accomplished with a handful of cheap webcams.
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Right? That Kung Fu bot seems like little more than an expensive toy.
I mean, I can see some useful or even scary potential in that robot, but yeah, these videos are always like that for me: Wow, that looks like it could be scary. Some day. After like, 10 more generations of development.
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That looks like it could be scary, but not as scary as the gang of heavily armed men you could put together for 16000 dollars. 
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