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I used to work in insurance. This might actually be the biggest blow to Testla, even more than stock prices. If people keep vandalizing the vehicles, eventually the insurance has to come due. And repair costs are not cheap, its basically only dealers and a limited number of repair places that partner.
And insurance companies always make sure they get their money.
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Paint probably.
Also I would never support anything illegal. As the law requires.
Like, painting a Cybertruck?
Its not vandalism, its just courtesy. The poor machine didn’t come with any.
some of the stickers you can easily find end up ruining the finish.
the more you know
I sure love bologna
Well, a 1:1 mixture of chlorine bleach and vinegar should damn near instantly and permanently corrode the steel. Don’t breathe the fumes, but I have toyed with the idea of a squirt gun filled with instarust.
“Don’t breathe the fumes” seems like a bit of an understatement for a reaction that produces chlorine gas.
That, and it doesn’t sound great to put in a squirt gun, which is almost certainly going to leak to some degree
If you are using household concentrations you won’t generate enough chlorine gas to be harmful in a ventilated area, like outside. If you put it in a bag and huff it you are going to have a bad time, but enough to cause damage can be tossed into a mason jar, shaken, and thrown pretty safely.
So dual wielded super soakers, one bleach filled, one vinegar filled!
Sounds like fun
Excellent idea
Hell, just bleach alone will eat through stainless steel!
The acid makes it rust in seconds instead of days though, instantly visible and quite permanent damage.
Days might actually be better. If they go to work and come back to it rusted all over, they will know it was a malicious action. If they start to see rust the next day and see it slowly progress, it might be hard to trace back to someone.
DO NOT MIX BLEACH AND CHLORINE, unless you want die or seriously injure yourself. When bleach is combined with acetic acid it produces chlorine gas, a literal chemical weapon/warcrime. If you want to corrode stainless steel use regular bleach, it does the job just fine.
Overnight, bologna can do some serious damage to paint, not sure what it might do to untreated aluminum.
I wouldn’t go after individual Tesla owners. It wasn’t always like this. They adopted the earliest and cheapest (in the US) EV. I won’t buy one now, but I would have three years ago.
I understand the dealership thing. Are most of them directly corporate?
I had thought they were all corporate. Does tesla have non Tesla owned dealerships?
They don’t do third party dealerships. All showrooms & service centers are owned by them.
Rip off a sidepanel. Not even the smartest people on space x can fit a new one.
I want to see if those are mentioned in future news coverage.
In Minecraft, right?
Tiny water balloons filled with brake fluid.
IIRC, if one or two tires, or all four tires are damaged, insurance will cover it. But insurance won’t cover three tires being damaged if I understand correctly. So slash three tires per car.
It’s better when insurance covers it
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Hahahahahahahaha
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is fucking hilarious.
It turns out, property damage can solve a problem
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Could the Americans be figuring out how to protest properly?
I wouldn’t say this is properly, but at least they’re finally starting to protest. This is teething while they figure it out.
Fire hot
When it is targeted, not just smashing every window on some small business you happen to see.
Reminds me of the Kia and Hyundai challenge.
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What the heck is that?
Basically those two manufacturers made cars that were easier to steal, and then it became a thing on TikTok.
Ohh yeah. I remember the tech news coverage of the cars being so easy to steal, just didn’t realise there was a “challenge” about it. Unbelievable Hyundai and Kia got away without immobilisers for so long. Really cheeky of them to cut that corner, and it backfired.
They cut the corner because a lack of regulation allowed them to, in order to produce a cheaper model.
It’s a mandatory feature in some other countries.
And of course the insurance rates for those cars skyrocketed. Some insurers wouldn’t provide insurance at all for Kia or Hyundai models that were vulnerable.
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Now this kind of thing could actually be the downfall of Tesla. Good job people!
I’m proud of my fellow Americans
Ironically, even without the vandalism these cars were ridiculously expensive to insure. When I bought my EV I checked insurance premiums, and it would’ve cost $100/mo more to insure a model 3 similarly priced EV from another maker.
this is what the fanbois never bragged about when the brand used to carry some level of prestige
Makes sense. They should make cars that don’t spontaneously combust.
Some higher being observing Earth from a far distance must be intrigued by the pattern recognition of us destroying one specific car while completely ignoring the thousands of others.
Like, imagine when we look at single-cell organisms and see them swarm something. We’d never apply any kind of nuanced interpersonal/sociopolitical reasons to be the cause.
The immune system reacting to a threat
Yea, colonialism/imperialism share a lot of characteristics with parasites.
Same pattern of white blood cells recognizing a pathogen. Search and destroy
Precisely. Makes you wonder what sociopolitical shit some amoeba are dealing with at the moment lol
And we’ve looped into osmosis jones territory.
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If it works out it could be the template for a lot more action
I think it goes Luigi > Tesla Removal > and some time down the road, we’ll be in what would later be historically considered a revolution— what’s crazy is with how interconnected we are today, it could be a global revolution of some kind.
can people even insure wank trucks?
I assume people wear masks when doing it because of the monitoring cameras on Teslas
Tesla had to create the own insurance because many companies and states won’t insure the cyber truck.
Bwahhahahahaaahaha!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Guarantee the payouts dive as well, given falling market values.
