Yeah, so… Let’s follow the money, right? This is how I make sense of basically everything in life.
Stellantis gets paid by SiriusXM for every unit they ship with this crap pre-installed. SiriusXM gets paid by either themselves, when they advertise SiriusXM membership to drivers, or they get paid by advertisers. The Mopar Extended Warranty, I bet Mopar is paying for the ad placements.
I’d bet dollars to donuts it’s the free trial for SiriusXM.
When this happened on Jeep vehicles, an apparent Stellantis employee responded on a thread about it. Here’s what they said:
“Thank you for tagging us and we are certainly sorry to hear of the frustration this has caused you. At this time, we advise that customers click the large [X] in the corner to close out and clear stored notifications from the vehicle. It should also be noted that ads are part of your contractual agreement with Sirius XM, but we are working on the frequency. Thank you for your patience.”
Lol, they still haven’t “worked on” the frequency 534 days later.
I think you’re exactly right
The market is already doing that for you - year over year sales for Dodge down 29% in 2024.
If the early fan reaction to the electric Scatpack are any indication, people won’t be lining up to buy it, so expect more of the same.
Get ready to hear that Coca Cola jingle every time you feel thirsty.
If you haven’t tried a second Kia dealership yet, I’d recommend that, too!
Give them your VIN over the phone, ask to schedule the repair under warranty. Might be able to save yourself the headache of going through corporate if the next dealership is less shady than the first.
That’s my assumption, that it’s some legal dodge. Like “we didn’t wire that light, so if you get in trouble for it, technically, you modded your Cybertruck, because we installed an inert lump of plastic and not an off-roading light. YOU installed an off-roading light.” That sort of deal.
The strange thing, all the other manufacturers do ship pre-wired offroad lights. There’s just something about the Cybertruck one that isn’t up to regulatory standard, I’m thinking.
Please tell him he is perfect! He can sponge up all of my attentions
Gentrified forest is the most cursed phrase I heard in a minute.
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.
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
They show a still photo in the video, where the engineer comments on that. He highlights the wrinkles in the wall image, imperfections and shadows that a human can see. The way he told it, it was hard to miss to a human
Haha, well, that shows my reading comprehension level!
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.
(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!
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.
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
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.
His kid isn’t dead, she just doesn’t go by that name anymore, and it is supremely dickish to treat her like that.