Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record

Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by tgarma1234 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:18AM (#16061122)

One thing that put me off about tesla, if you overlook all of the manufacturing issues that pretty much every analyst says will doom the company, is that for some bizarre reason the models were intentionally named in order to spell out S3XY. After Harvey Weinstein I think we all need to take a good hard look at the men who are in charge of things and ask, "why?" People don't get a free pass on being creeps just because they are blowing a lot of money anymore.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by timmonsjg on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:23AM (#16061148)

>People don't get a free pass on being creeps just because they are blowing a lot of money anymore

The man wants his car designs to evoke an image of being sexy and you consider him a creep? That's a way over-dramatic interpretation.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by tgarma1234 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:29AM (#16061201)

Yes, if you overtly sexualize something for which there is no real reason to take the conversation in that direction then you are very likely a creep. They could have been cool cars but I just don't like that.

Incidentally I was responding the comment that mentioned there is a lot of hate for Tesla. What I mostly don't like about Tesla, aside from that stupid naming convention, is that they missed all of their manufacturing targets and are about to hit a brick wall with investors, regardless of how "sexy" one thinks the car design is.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by sgc on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:20AM (#16062237)

I don't know where you are from, but it worth remembering that the use of the term "sexy" is much more commonplace for inanimate objects and has different connotations in the English speaking world outside the United States. And the CEO of the company in question was raised outside the US.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by arcticfox on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:37AM (#16062431)

I think this is true even in the US, at least as far as my American English takes me.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by recrof on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:40AM (#16061289)

I think that you're misinterpreting this easter egg. It's meant to be clever joke, if you're trying to find something creepy in that, it's on you.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by arcticfox on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:36AM (#16062424)

"Sexy" has long been used to describe something visually attractive, not remotely related to sex. Here's Jonathan Ive talking about sexy computers: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/sexy-design/. Do you think they're actually sexually attracted to these machines? Or implying other people will be? I think you need to revise your word connotations.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by zzz157 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:40AM (#16061293)

What you just said is far more creepy than "S3XY".

>informal exciting; appealing. "I've climbed most of the really sexy west coast mountains" synonyms: exciting, stimulating, interesting, appealing, intriguing, slick, red-hot "a sexy sales promotion"

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by TFortunato on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:42AM (#16061309)

Did they? This is the first I've heard of it, and when I click models on their site, I see "S, X, 3, Roadster" (on mobile site), so I guess I never made any connection there.

(Also, is there a model Y in the works?)

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by tzahola on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:48AM (#16061920)

Congrats! Elon could have got away with it, but you connected the dots. He will be forced to resign any day now.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by cornholio on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:31PM (#16062942)

He's the last technology patriarch. Practically a dinosaur from the age where women were not allowed to study STEM. AND HE MARRIES ONLY SUPERMODELS, how's that for a smoking gun of oppression?

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by Robotbeat on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:17PM (#16063459)

The President (i.e. the highest position other than Elon himself) of SpaceX is Gwynne Shotwell; please tell me how Elon is all about oppression of women.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by cornholio on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:33PM (#16063625)

sheesh... take a joke people

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by Robotbeat on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:36PM (#16063664)

Poe's Law.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by dmalik on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:26AM (#16061172)

Lol, how is that being a creep? I can see how the word sexy may put some people off but that is a LARGE leap to Harvey Weinstein.

The vehicles are sexy... to me at least.

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Re:Tesla Model 3 Sets New EV Cannonball Run Record by matt4077 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:28AM (#16061191)

Please don't undermine the (very real) fight against sexual harassment by conflating it with such nonsense issues.

It only gives ammunition to the chauvinists claiming that sex will be outlawed, or the idiots calling for politicians to resign for having sex out of wedlock.

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