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Maybe more charitably stated, it's a fun title to break the monotony of common titles. Surely just because we disagree with musk on other decisions we don't have to denigrate some harmless fun.

I welcome the day where we treat business less seriously.

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I'm sure the reams of people Musk pushed out at his various companies are just rollin' in the aisles over that one.

Or any of the Tesla workers that have been subject to the company's culture of racism: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-25/black-tesl...

That likely generalizes to all the ones that are overworked and underpaid too. Fair point.

> I welcome the day where we treat business less seriously.

Teslas can and do kill people. Taking business "less seriously" is how you do things like remove lidar and label the hobbled driver assist as "full self-driving". I doubt people who have had family members killed by a Tesla think these titles are cute and "fun".

I bet the people who've had family members saved by them appreciate the fun. I bet the people who's family members have died in accidents, that wouldn't have happened if the other driver were in a Tesla, also appreciate the work that Tesla is doing.

Uptight corporate environments are demoralizing and dehumanizing. It may be possible that by having some fun at work Tesla is able to make their cars safer.

I mean Tesla is notorious for poor working conditions. Musk may be having fun, but that's not the general experience of working at his companies.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/18/tesla-wor...

No kidding. Musk isn’t a fun person to work for. So instead of flaming one tiny fun thing you could celebrate it or at least ignore it. Making Tesla more uptight isn’t going to improve working conditions.

> So instead of flaming one tiny fun thing

The point is it's not "fun", it's Musk powertripping on his employees while he creates terrible working conditions.

I don't see how a silly secondary title is "power tripping" or how it makes the working conditions worse.

Can you prove any connection between the two?

You mean between not taking business seriously and making choices that put people's lives in danger? He was told by his team lidar was a better solution and on a whim he killed it, that's a pretty big connection!

You've not established that has anything to do with titles. Nor have you established killing lidar was a bad idea, or puts people's lives in danger.

Remember that hype isn't the same as substance.

I didn't say anything about titles. I said taking business less serious is how you make frivolous decisions like ripping out lidar. I'm hardly the only person who finds his moves suspect:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-sec-probes-elon-musks-...

Even in this reduced claim, you haven't established this was a frivolous decision or due to 'taking business less serious'.

About 90 minutes ago, a Tesla swerved into my car on surface streets and only avoided me because I was able to swerve into the opposing lane in time.

(The driver was on his phone, and his hands were not on the steering wheel.)

This is not even the first time this month that a Tesla using Autopilot/FSD has swerved toward my car like a drunk driver.

Personally i think it sounds more cringe than fun. Although i agree generally that it doesn't really matter and there are more than enough real things to care about that he has done.

nah. publicly traded company. i dgaf about cute, i want to know what my money is doing and who is running it in a way that permits apples to apples.

cute is for side projects and FOSS memes

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