I assume he thinks it would work like Uber, but is discounting the incredible unreliability of the tech and what that would mean for insurance rates…
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Anyone who owns a Tesla car should check the fine print of whatever they signed at the dealership (or clicked on or whatever) when they got that car.
They may have already signed up for (or didn’t opt out of) something like this.
And have signed an agreement to arbitrate instead of going to court when there are disagreements about stipulations in any contract.
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… And agreed that for legal purposes, the jurisdiction shall be the Mars Colony
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All told, none of this was worth the time or the expense. The heavy cuisine left us both a little queasy, and I was mildly nauseated again the following day to learn that someone had snapped photos of boxes of frozen products and milk sitting behind the restaurant in the July heat. If only there were a couple of helpful humanoid robots that could move them! Alas, despite Tesla’s misleading marketing, the only Optimus models we saw were behind glass, posed like museum exhibits.
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I love his idea of adding a mini-train to the hyper loop 
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I know that not many people believe that Tesla will actually do that, but it’s remarkable that anyone would believe it at all considering that his cars in that tiny, closed system of tunnels under Vegas still require human drivers to this day:
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That would be pretty funny, though I rather suspect someone would have noticed a clause along those lines (and mentioned it on the internet to much outrage). I don’t think you could cloak a provision like that in enough legalese that no one would recognize what it was getting at, but on the other hand, Tesla are infamous for retroactively changing their terms (and the functionality of their cars), so…
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I trust them about as far as I can throw a Cybertruck.
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Yeah, he’s going to volunteer for being cannon fodder in some conflict or other any day now, I’m sure.
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I always think “there is no way I could hate these dipshits more”… but they keep finding ways to be ever more despicable.
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Plucked this from bsky re the effect of spoiled milk/frozen goods on the diners’ digestive system:
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I mean, he’s not entirely wrong. I can remember history books that set out that ancient countries had the problem of elites sucking up more and more of the available wealth, choking any hope of prosperity. Having to pay armies and even more so being looted by armies redistributed it again, if at terrible cost.
Just now that we know, we can be a bit more targeted in attacking the actual problem. War against other countries and other peoples is hell. A war just on Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires, though, would indeed be a good thing for society.
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The internet is such a weird place, so that I know who this person is who saw the food, because she plays basketball in the LA municipal league and I listen to a comedy podcast that used to call the games
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I can imagine a restaurant by VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke, Gurgel or VAZ being better than Musk’s diner.
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Musk’s suggestion is somewhat similar to a plot-point in D. F. Jones’ Colossus and the Crab, the final volume in his Colossus trilogy. (Colossus’s rationale differs from Musk’s) Many more people would have seen the film based on the first volume (Colossus: The Forbin Project) than read the book it was based on—and far, far fewer would have read “… the Crab”. I have a sneaking impression (given a book series based on the ultimate AI) that Musk may have at least read the final volume. Here’s an excerpt:
With war abolished, Colossus had invented the War Game as an outlet for man’s urge for conquest, power, and destruction. All States of the Unions had been permitted to build a fleet, nuclear-powered, remote-controlled… Fleet had fought Fleet in ocean battles, watched eagerly by hundreds of millions on satellite TV, the ultimate victor rising from the Inter-State League, through Continental to World League, and Colossus had been umpire and final arbiter in all Games.
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