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Those would be the standard auto insurance companies. Iām sure that there are armored vehicle insurance companies, but their premiums are probably Oh my!
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Thatās a lame excuse. Iām surprised they donāt cover them because of salt on the roads is going to utterly destroy them.
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True. I was thinking thatās a cover excuse, and they probably have a cluster of other reasons. (Like maybe the typical CyberTruck driver profile? 
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Depending on where in Canada, they donāt use as much NaCl salt as they used to. (The 80s in Montreal turned unprotected cars into rusty scrap quite quickly.)
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A light drizzle seemingly fucks up a cyberdumpster, i canāt imagine that itād survive the Canadian winter unscathed.
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An STD?
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Revised.
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I was going to suggest āshove under the busā but I suppose that will come later.
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Iāll put āburns to a crisp in a malfunctioning Teslaā on my bingo card.
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There was a recent NYTimes article about Trump, vehicle emission rules and Elon Musk which was quite interesting*. US car companies have heavily invested in electric vehicle manufacturing, and they donāt want Trump to get rid of Obamaās restrictions on emissions, because it totally screws them - cheaper gas cars would undercut electric vehicle sales and all their investments would be a loss. Trump got really pissed at car companies because they rejected the āfavorā he tried to do to them when he attempted to overturn the rules in his first term. (And was really upset when car companies supported Californiaās tighter rules.)
Musk, surprisingly (to me, anyways), doesnāt care/is actually against rules that help electric car makers. There are apparently a number of reasons, all self-serving. For one, Tesla makes almost half its revenue by selling carbon credits to US gas car makers, so heās got a vested interest in there being a thriving market for those vehicles. (That also means that driving a Tesla isnāt doing the environment much/any good over a gas vehicle - the emissions just shifted elsewhere.) Also, Tesla has been around long enough (and collected enough government subsidies) to pay off its manufacturing infrastructure, on top of which, as the seller of what are basically luxury cars, their profit margins arenāt so thin or reliant on mass production so, if subsidies for electric vehicles go away now, Tesla wonāt be selling cars at a loss like everyone else. Basically, Elon Musk is quite happy to destroy the US electric vehicle industry as a whole, so that Tesla can be the only survivor. (On top of which, heās heavily beholden to the demands of e.g. China, so heāll be getting pressured by the foreign countries where he has business interests to give Trump advice that will undermine US industries.)
Iāve frequently seen people online talk about how Musk was going to āsave the worldā (from climate change), which was absurd, given that even the ideal solution to transportation (electric mass transit and walkable cities) only addresses a small part of the issue, and private vehicles, much less luxury vehicles, donāt even do much for that small part. Now it turns out that Musk is actively detrimental to efforts to reduce transportation emissions, in between his attempts to undermine public transit and affordable electric vehicles. Basically at this point Musk has no redeeming features at all.
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It reminds me a bit of how the streaming video companies were all about Net Neutrality while they were struggling with the ISPs, but once they got big enough that they no longer had any concerns, their interest was suddenly gone. Itās almost as if Capitalism doesnāt produce the best outcomesā¦
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TIL that there is a ferric or magnetic stainless steel. i was of the impression that all stainless steel was non-magnetic.
i am just devious eenough to go around placing little neodymium magnets in clever places on the one wankpanzer here, but that would not be cool.
now if said cyberdumpster displays a tRump sticker, all bets are off.
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At least Netflix (et al) were consistent about what they were and never pretended they were motivated by anything other than a desire to run a profitable streaming service. Musk talked a lot about electric cars and solar power in the context of combating climate change, but that turns out to be total bullshit and apparently he was only ever into electric cars because he thought they were cool*.
*Probably only because they show up in sci-fi **. I suspect if he could re-shape the world to be like it is in āBlade Runnerā or some other dystopia, heād be into that, too.
**Which he didnāt understand.
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Iāve been scared off those kinds of actions by the increasing ubiquity of cameras. Still, I suppose a person could casually toss one on to it while walking past it.
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very good point! donāt Teslas have cameras all over them that basically surveil themselves.
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