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[–] WrenFeathers 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Sooo… I’m not going to be flying for at least the next four years.

[–] rottingleaf 1 points 16 minutes ago

You may still die from falling debris of some air safety armed drone. Rapid safety upgrades are like that, accidents happen

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0 29 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Just like we'll have "full self driving this year" for 10 years running?

Elon Musk is a fucking moron who happened to stumble upon brilliant engineers who actually do meaningful work. Unfortunately for him he's fired or burned through nearly all of them which is why Twitter is bleeding cash and Tesla hasn't released anything interesting in 5 years.

[–] glitch1985 4 points 4 hours ago

Tesla hasn't released anything interesting in 5 years

Hey they regularly update the ability to make your vehicle into an expensive whoopie cushion. If that isn't interesting I don't know what is.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 hours ago
[–] dance_ninja 86 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Rapid and safe don't go together

[–] rottingleaf 1 points 15 minutes ago

Shooting Elon is rapid

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That’s not true. I can think of a quick change that will greatly improve air safety: ground every single plane, effective immediately.

Would it affect my upcoming vacation? Yes. But would it work? Yes.

[–] StaticFalconar 4 points 4 hours ago

Getting a bus pass doesn't make you a better driver.

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Theres an old saying you cant have everything Rapid safe and cheap.

You just need to pick 2.

[–] Majorllama 3 points 7 hours ago

Good thing they saved us a bunch of money by shutting everything down then. They can spend the pentagons sushi budget on quickly training some safe operators.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

DOGE? His crack team of 18-26 year old muppets? Wonderful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

There's a 26y old? Oldest i saw reported was like 23

[–] Sanctus 46 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If the military doesnt do something, because Congress won't, we're absolutely cooked. I have family who work on planes. Fuck all of this.

[–] rottingleaf 2 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

You live in a country that had psychiatry more barbaric than that of USSR till 70s.

EDIT: too niche an example ; no they won't.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

He's the guy who fucked it up. He and his goons are morons, and should be nowhere near any of this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Maybe so, but the are on it. So...

[–] reddig33 23 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You know, rapid and safe, like Tesla full self driving.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck 1 points 1 hour ago

Ah, yes, adaptive cruise control and lane keeping with some AI hallucinations dropped in, surely that'll be safe.

[–] thesohoriots 27 points 8 hours ago

Like to Tesla FSD systems, right? Slap a couple patches on there? Cut off a split second before it hits parked ambulances on the interstate so it’s technically not responsible?

[–] TommySoda 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

All I know is that I have a flight for work in a couple weeks and if shit keeps going this way I'm fucking driving, even if I have to leave a day early.

[–] somethingsnappy 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I have to fly home cross country tomorrow. Wheeee.

[–] eran_morad 30 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah bruh, I am not flying until the next admin cleans up all this horseshit. If we have a next admin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Every single action that he does even if it only takes a day to undo took decades to get implemented. Will probably take just as long to get it back.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

Planes go over my house all day. We're all fucked, even if we don't fly. Maybe one will fall on him and we can have a good laugh 😅

[–] regrub 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SirQuackTheDuck 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Pilot: "hey ground control"
ATC: *Google Assistant ding*

[–] uberdroog 1 points 6 hours ago

Active GPS. Please, no BS Elon satellite phone bullshit.