No worries tesla owners of lemmy: your president is addressing your biggest concern

  • Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    I could see Teslas being considered weapons of mass destruction based on how difficult it is to extinguish fully-charged Li-ion battery fires, or have they changed the chemistry and electrolyte to something less dangerous by now?

  • wirebeads@lemmy.ca
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    25 days ago

    Torching a Tesla: terrorist. Murdering innocent school children: thoughts and prayers.

    Americans are getting dumber by the second at this point.

  • UnexpectedBehavior@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    I wonder if Putin would hire some thugs to vandalize Teslas. He did just that with fossil fueled cars in Germany and blamed climate activists

  • naeap@sopuli.xyz
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    25 days ago

    “is Psycho” and should “stop being psycho”

    Well, he is so close, would he just realize he is just projecting…

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      It varies, but a general rule of thumb is that any personal insurance (home, life, auto, boat, whatever) will pay out for a terrorist attack but commercial policies (property insurance, loss of revenue, workers comp, etc) won’t unless they specifically pay for terrorism coverage. That said, even the personal insurances will generally have exceptions for war and mass scale destruction (e.g. nukes).

      Which mostly boils down to the reality of any kind of insurance policy: In isolated cases, they’ll pay out. The bigger the incident, the more they will fight it and the more likely they are to pull out of a region.

      Which is kind o a moot point since many/most auto insurers already refuse to deal with teslas due to their high repair costs and other fun stuff that they pretend isn’t a factor but totally is (the tendency for a car on “full self driving” to plow into oncoming traffic milliseconds after “full self driving” was logged to have been disengaged by the user).

      Which is the other “secret” in all this “Won’t somebody think of the tesla drivers?!?!!?” stupidity. Yeah, teslas were often very competitively priced in their categories (in large part because of government subsidies that only musk was eligible for). But the moment you try to get insurance for the tesla you are going to take ownership of in one or two business days? You suddenly are shunted to a special insurer with higher rates and anyone with half a brain would raise DOZENS of red flags at that.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
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        25 days ago

        There’s a real simple solution if your insurance won’t cover 3 out of 4 of your tires getting slashed.

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      25 days ago

      Don’t worry. ThEyRE DrAINiNg ThE SWaMP!

      We’ll all have so much money back in our wallets soon that we’ll be able to afford eggs again!

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    25 days ago

    I wonder if anyone ever warned about the terror laws being abused?
    Let me think…

    Oh yeah, now I remember, there was, and I was one of them.

  • wedge@lemmy.one
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    25 days ago

    Wow. Maybe they’ll drag their heals on that the way they’ve dragged their heals for 10+ years on Trump being a Russian asset.