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slate.auto
And Telo
@mortalic I am so excited to see them succeed! I have high hopes for them.
Indeed, their q/a where they said they would be releasing .STL files for people to customize and repair is pretty great. Its going to have a repair manual!
came here to say this. the only thing shitty about it that i’ve found is it’s bezo’s money behind it.
jay leno’s garage did an ok video about it last week. it was only ok because leno wouldn’t stfu. the truck seems pretty cool. i just wish someone would make a full bed ev truck. i’m not in it for the style, i need a vehicle to move full sheet goods with the gate closed.
@turdburglar @mortalic Ah man not another start promising startup ruined by big corpo. At least my local machine shop will make good money honing and decking the block and head.
Starting a car company requires an insane amount of funding. You'll never find one that's not working with shady billionaires.
I believe the slate is an ev if you're talking about an internal combustion engine
@Cris_Color Slate is indeed an EV. I would still consider it if they keep all the extra unwanted technology away from it. Which is their selling point anyway. Just a bare bones simple electric vehicle with nothing special going for it. Expect forward reverse. Hopefully.
Jeff.Bezos
Don't lock into an ecosystem run by Amazon and expect things to work out...
You know, I mostly agree. However, this truck is the only new car coming out that isn't connected to anything. There is no modem. Hell you have to use your phone for even shuttling firmware to it. But honestly, what billionaire would be acceptable? I can't think of any.
Again:
You really think Amazon of all corps isn't going to release a decent product to get people invested in a high cost ecosystem and then get all shitty about stuff?
You're buying a car where the only parts you can buy is from Bezos, 3 years down the road shit will not be the same as release day. But people will have sunk cost into the base model by then
You're looking for perfect, I get that, but this is the only vehicle that won't be connected to the cloud, has a company pushing right to repair laws, is allowing customers to do their own warranty work if they want to, giving you how to guides with a repair manual, providing .stl files for 3d printing parts and still selling the vehicle for under $30k.
Look man, take the progress when it's here before you end up with tesla robotaxies you can't even drive, cuz that's what happens of consumers don't buy this truck.
Eh. It's the Frontier Airlines of Trucks. They'd charge extra for seatbelts and airbags if they could. By the time you've got a barebones usable vehicle from them you're looking at $35k and you can get a lot more for that kind of money.
Every new vehicle other than the Slate is disqualified from potential purchase because of built-in spyware/telemetry. Doesn't matter what sort of "value" they are, when they are categorically not fit for purpose.