• Commie_Chameleon [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    I know this won’t affect the stock price (which will keep pumping anyway), but who’s going to buy the robots? There’ll be some enthusiasts sure, but most people actually need cars and will take out a loan to get these. The people that actually need these robots (assuming they even worked in the first place) would be people that need help around the house, and realistically most of them can’t afford this thing. So do we see a repeat of the parking lots filled with cyber trucks, but with robots instead? Or do they just give them out to influencers and con enough rich assholes into buying them to make it work (probably not gonna happen lol).

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      8 months ago

      There’s no way Tesla robots will ever be good enough to do anything useful like house chores or whatever. MAYBE if he sells them with a subscription and it’s actually just some dude in East Asia controlling the robot. But then most people wouldn’t want them because now you’re paying random servants from around the world to hop into your house to serve you.

      Actually as I was typing this I realized that is exactly the kind of disgusting bullshit that Tesla owners would love. “Oh yes see it’s not slavery because these people get to stay in their country and their homes and make a wage to be my servant! That means I’m fueling underserved economies! I’m saving the world with my Tesla Servant! Global economics! Together Musk is lifting people out of poverty!”

      Fuck these are going to be wildly successful for all the wrong reasons aren’t they.

    • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      I never noticed this before, but does that thing explode a water bottle when the hand gets put down, like before it even falls? That seems like a dangerous amount of force/pressure to apply without any failsafes or anything.