there are probably not chargers on the other route, utah is pretty long drive with nothing around
it’s funnier though if he just went to las vegas NM and went wtf this ain’t right
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Anybody else start singing “Route 66” to yourself as soon as you saw this Tweet?
for being CEO of all these important companies it sure is strange he has all this free time to get banned from path of exile and pick fights with everyone on twitter.
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I’ve driven the route, those trees in that picture don’t exist on it.
I’m not usually the pile-on type, but is that bumper falling off?
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There are plenty of super chargers on that route. They are pretty much everywhere now - it’s the one thing that sucks about owning a non-Tesla EV.
You can check their website and see:
It seems more likely he’s just a huge idiot that went to the wrong Las Vegas. Probably didn’t know what state it was in, and just put in Las Vegas and headed off. There is pretty much no way the Tesla would navigate you that route, so it had to be intentional.
I didn’t get that close when I took the picture. Next time I walk by I’ll take a look. But 10 micron tolerance!
There is only one on that map you have to take a little detour for quite a ways from CO into UT on 70. Maybe it wouldn’t have made it with the truck he was stopping pretty frequently.
It’s also over mountains and rocks and up and down and he’s got things that go boom in the trunk.
Wrong way is funnier but it’s probably because of one or both of those reasons.
Hi, it’s me. My first thought was that he wanted to get his kicks.
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In the future, I wouldn’t stand so close to a cybertruck.
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Do we know when and where he bought those?
A screenshot that seems to suggest billionaire Elon Musk is cosplaying superfan “Adrian Dittmann” — showing X account permissions beyond that of an ordinary user — is almost certainly fake, a source at X tells The Verge.
The source, who claims no knowledge of Dittmann’s identity, says an image posted to 4chan’s /pol/ board doesn’t reflect an actual interface available to people who work for X. The screenshot was posted by a user who identifies themselves as Adrian Dittmann, showing a post from Musk’s X page. In that screenshot, the X interface includes non-standard links to an “Admin Portal” and a “Bans” page, hinting that the user has special privileges on the site. But the source says neither of these options exist for X employees logged into their accounts. In fact, X employees would see the same interface as other users, with the potential exception of new features currently being trialed for wide release.
The Fire Safety Research Institute just started looking at EV fire hazards last year. They’re doing pretty extensive testing. I’m sure there are hazards specific to them but not much difference just watching them burn and neither gas or electric are all that exciting. It’s not like the movies. Idk if they’ve torched a cybertuck yet though.
Here’s a video. It doesn’t have a lot of actual fire content, it’s more about the test process.
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Back in the 90s I lived in North Jersey off I-80. I was a restaurant manager and some dude came in all confused. He was trying to find Dover, DE. He was driving from western PA and saw the signs saying Del Water Gap and Dover (NJ). He came in and was like “Uhh…that’s the capital of Delaware? It’s smaller than I thought.” If I remember correctly he was supposed to pick someone up at the airport and he was like 4 hrs off LOL.
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My dad told me a similar story from when he worked for US Customs at the Quebec/Vermont border in the 70s or 80s.
A Chinese-Canadian couple drove up. In very broken English, he said that he was from Toronto and was trying to get to Detroit.
My dad had them come in the building and got a map out. He pointed out Toronto (where they live), Detroit (250 miles away), and where they were now (400 miles away in the exact wrong direction). The wife was extremely not happy.
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My idiot first long-distance driving experience.
Was headed to Boston from Cleveland Ohio with two friends (only one other also drove and was a paper driver). We leave in the middle of the night. After a couple hours I tire so friend takes over. I awaken as the car has stopped. It was a dense fog. You couldn’t see more than three feet in front of you. My friend had stopped the car on in the middle of the muther fuggin freeway!
I scream at her to move and pull over to the side. She does–about 10 seconds before an 18-wheeler barrels past us. One of my nine lives gone…
Anyway, taking over the wheel, we drive through the night. Finally it’s daybreak and we stop for gas. Only to discover that we’ve driven directly south for six hours.
Won’t even go into how the car completely broke down when we finally made our destination–24 hours after we departed. A memorable experience.
I’m still terrible at directions and grateful to be living in the GPS age.
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Rich Dids?
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Koch bro kid/ shirt designer
When I was a kid in the late 90s, my mom, 2 sisters and I went for a road trip to Myrtle Beach. My older sister was 16 or 17. I was 12-13. My mom got tired and my sister took over driving. I was passenger seat navigating while my mom slept. When my mom woke up, we had gone completely the wrong way and were lost in the Appalachian mountains.
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