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[-] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Should we maybe just have a knob on the blinker switch?"

"No. This will be epically more based." billionaire-tears snorts a fat bump of K

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

Glad they finally innovated taking .1 seconds to flip a switch into staing at a screen for 10 seconds. Truly worth 100k dollars.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love software that secretary adds shit without me knowing. Makes me feel safe and in control.

Also what the fuck is a frunk?

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also what the fuck is a frunk?

Front trunk. In some EVs, there is an extra trunk under the hood, where the engine bay would be.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

The metal lid is the bonnet, the frunk is the storage compartment under the bonnet. Again, this isn't a new invention, back when old VW beetles were rear engined, people somewhat commonly called the storage compartment at the front end a frunk.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Old comrade yells at cloud that's older than they are.

Such is life.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Time is a fat bicycle.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Mister Bonnet debatejak

VS

Dr. Frunkelstein finkelstein-lambaste

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Is this emoji Finkelstein being flabbergasted by Destiny's foolishness during that recent debate? I love the emojis here, best ones on the world wide web.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Fr. Drunkelstein socialism-beer

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It’s hood in the correct parts of the world.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

It's the car's bussy

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Isn't Elon so innovative? After the last software update, you can turn on heated seats without paying a subscription for it! They also added Tetris to the touchscreen games.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

After the last software update, you can turn on heated seats without paying a subscription for it!

lmao this would get you outed as a troll too quick, everyone knows Musk would never give something away for free

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

In no way is frunk a word for front trunk please please god

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's been the term for a front storage compartment since at least the 1970s.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

TIL. It's not a common term here. We call the trunk the boot, and front storage is exceedingly rare so that I've never encountered a car with it. I guess frunk will catch on in the absence of a 'froot'

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, front storage went away for a while when air cooling faded away and rear-engined cars became exclusively rich guy sportscars. Now that EVs are becoming more common, most of them have a little storage compartment under the hood or bonnet, so frunk is becoming a more popular term again.

I think tailgate is still the correct term even where the rear storage is the boot, but I've heard it more colloquially called a "boot lid"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

under the hood or bonnet, so frunk is becoming a more popular term again

Ah yeah see, without learning the word frunk I would have said bonnet storage or just bonnet, then I read your other comment saying that the bonnet is the metal flap, so that's another TIL!

Tailgate in Australia means to drive up someone's arse/not keep the safe distance between you and the driver in front, I'm guessing deriving from that they're on your tailgate. Interesting stuff, thanks.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yep! North Americans also call driving too close (and partying out of the back of ones car as one might pregame outside a sporting event) tailgating for the same reason: proximity to the vehicle's tailgate.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Frbtoootnoont.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

literally just put Hood wtf is wrong with these ppl

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

The hood or bonnet is the foldy uppy piece of metal in the front, the tailgate is the one in the back. The trunk or frunk is the storage compartment under that piece of metal.

This isn't a 21st century techbro term invented for Teslas, it's been in somewhat common usage since at least the 70s when rear-engined air-cooled VWs and Porsches were still common.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I will consume you

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

This is really shit design. The whole reason that the flood light are on a knob is so you can easily turn it off when there is a car approaching you.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Flood lights/highbeams are different than fog lights. Fog lights point down and a bit out for visibility around the front of your car. You don't need to toggle those for oncoming traffic.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Wait Tesla lights get even brighter

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

capitalist 'innovation' makes me dead inside

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Teslas are one of the most infuriating cars I’ve had the displeasure of driving. Literally everything was in the middle console. You have to take your eyes off the road then to the middle of the car losing any kind of peripheral vision of the front.

Not only that but you have to go through like 10 different menus to turn some bullshit on.

The only thing worse than this is the Ford trucks that have the same features, except the dashboard is still normal. But everything else? Want to turn on the AC? Better fiddle with a fucking 5 FPS computer screen while driving at 60 MPH in a suburban tank.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Light settings: ⍼D ⍼D =D

What are these symbols??

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Third one is like a normal high beams symbol, but yeah what are those other two?

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