FSD is less reliable compared to say Google’s Waymo. GM’s Cruise gave up on autonomous driving

China’s dubious state media, says their autonomous robotaxis are quite safe, and they’re rolling out fleets of them in major cities already

But I’m sure that bits and bobs in Tesla’s FSD systems have some value to someone.

The sad part is, that allowing Elon to export “Full Self Driving” or whatever other technology to China won’t even help Tesla that much, and will even harm the company in the long term:

The Chinese will just copy/steal the technology, because all foreign investment is through joint ventures with local corporations, and give it to their domestic manufacturers, like they did and continue to do with all other offshored production that winds up in their hands.

As a recent spate of articles about GM, Honda and Nissan, tells us, the Chinese domestic manufacturers now own 60% market share.

Tesla’s market share in China has dropped in nearly half over the last 3 months from 9/24 - 12/24, from 6.43% to 3.39%, and that was already down from 9% in 2023.

Nothing, but the US should be able to sell soybeans as well as, if not better than Brazil, or any other country.

Think about this: Fucking Brazil is now seen as a more reliable trading partner than the US.

“Violates interstate commerce, blah, blah…” Which the SCOTUS will ignore anyway.

A fabulist heading the FBI? This will be a disaster, if his other qualities shouldn’t disqualify him already…

Flying Spaghetti Monster letting Satan grab all the headlines.

…abolishing the DOE will reduce the tax burden on citizens living in blue states…

There’s no such thing as a “federal education funding tax” applied to each state to collectively fund education across the whole country.

The IRS will collect the same federal tax that it always has, but Republicans will funnel the former federal public education money to their pet projects: “crisis pregnancy centers,” the military, more tax cuts for billionaires, vouchers for discriminatory private schools, etc.

Therefore the Blue states will get even less federal funding in return for the federal taxes that their economies generate, but by no means will their federal tax burden go down.

Looking forward to headlines like “Trump Administration Emails Hacked by (insert foreign adversary)”

I hope they don’t steal all of our national secrets about drinking raw milk, and how to seduce 8 year olds by grabbing them by the pussy.

Even if you don’t want deign to give Trump himself credit, he’s got very smart lieutenants working for him, like that Susie Wiles who co-managed his by-all-accounts “disciplined” campaign and was named Chief Of Staff a couple of days ago.

You do realize why Trump is doing these wild nominations is to distract from whatever else he will have cooking when he takes office.

Less flashy, but more consequential things like even more tax cuts for billionaires, pardoning himself for anything and everything, installing corrupt MAGAts in place of career civil servants, Supreme Court nominations, gutting securities/education/food/communications regulators, gutting the State Department and other instruments of our foreign policy, anything else in Project 2025, etc.

Trump could care less whether it ruins life for the 99% of us.