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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] 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It can't realistically tow heavy loads cause the hitch breaks off, and it can't travel far with heavy loads. Definitely not the king tiger of trucks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours 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] 5 points 14 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

lol survival rate vs death rate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

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