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What's great about this, and Stephen Fry is brilliant, is not that he's absolving Musk, or that he's criticizing Tesla, but that it is an argument likely leading to Elon Musk protesting,

'No, my cars are good enough that I can be a Nazi!'

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Wasn't the king tiger notorious for breaking down constantly? Or was that a different German WW2 tank?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Even up to present day conflict tanks breaking down or getting stuck can be a major loss of armor, especially during prolonged maneuvers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Also dangerous for crews. Sherman tank crews had a 75% survival rating when their tank got bust. I think the tiger had an 80% death rate or something.

[–] thedeadwalking4242 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lol survival rate vs death rate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OK so survival rating of 75% vs. 20%. Happy?

[–] thedeadwalking4242 1 points 10 hours ago

No I liked the original! It’s a stark contrast!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Is that because of the tank though, or the situation it ended up in? If they had 20 modern MBTs I expect they would still end up with a high fatality rate.

[–] rottingleaf 3 points 1 day ago

That's every one of those big German tanks everybody talks about. The ones they started the war with were pretty fine (limited by terrain, though).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Difficult to make, too heavy to be effective, and iirc yeah, unreliable.