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[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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] 53 points 8 months ago

Tesla owners must have a humiliation kink

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months 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] 50 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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] 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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] 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

Such is life.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Time is a fat bicycle.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Mister Bonnet debatejak

VS

Dr. Frunkelstein finkelstein-lambaste

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months 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] 8 points 8 months ago

Fr. Drunkelstein socialism-beer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

It's the car's bussy

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 8 months 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] 27 points 8 months ago

Elon, getting rid of buttons and regulations to own the libs

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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 8 months ago (1 children)

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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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 8 months 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 8 months ago

Frbtoootnoont.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I reckon you'd still call it a boot, I don't see why the name has to change because it's in a different spot on the car

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

literally just put Hood wtf is wrong with these ppl

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I will consume you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months 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] 21 points 8 months ago

Wait Tesla lights get even brighter

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months 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] 17 points 8 months ago

capitalist 'innovation' makes me dead inside

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Light settings: ⍼D ⍼D =D

What are these symbols??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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