plymouthpatsfan

DAalseth said:

plymouthpatsfan said:

M68000 said:

lkrupp said:

If the vehicle is a recent model it will have the equivalent of a black box and we’ll see if his story holds up. And of course Apple will be sued for failing to protect its customers and employees.

Further,  do they have video of where the vehicle started from?  Where was this guy,  in a straight line or were turns involved also?

been there so many times and I drive a 4Runner.  if he was going 60MPH when he hit the glass he had a maximum 330 foot start (according to Google Earth) from Crate and Barrel across the parking lot.  4Runner is 0-60 in 7.7 seconds.  I'm just saying.. that thing was floored for 100 yards?  I dunno, man.  

And if he was pressing on the gas, thinking it was the brake that would do it. Especially if the car accelerates, he panics, presses harder on the “brake” and it accelerates more, and he panics more… It’s not an uncommon accident. 

it's not, unfortunately.. you hear about it usually when some elderly person drives through the front wall of a cvs, for example.  but never fast enough to go all the way to the back of the store.  if 60MPH is correct.. then he had his foot on that pedal for a long time... and the angle he had to take to miss the restaurant and hit that window... to me it certainly appears to show some intent.  but hey, they will get the data from the car and turn his life upside down.  they'll figure it out.  but I don't believe for a second that he was getting his glasses fixed in Hingham when he lives in Natick which is 30 miles away.

This is derby street shops on the back side from Crate and Barrel to Apple Store.  Notice the angles too..

M68000 said:

lkrupp said:

If the vehicle is a recent model it will have the equivalent of a black box and we’ll see if his story holds up. And of course Apple will be sued for failing to protect its customers and employees.

Further,  do they have video of where the vehicle started from?  Where was this guy,  in a straight line or were turns involved also?

been there so many times and I drive a 4Runner.  if he was going 60MPH when he hit the glass he had a maximum 330 foot start (according to Google Earth) from Crate and Barrel across the parking lot.  4Runner is 0-60 in 7.7 seconds.  I'm just saying.. that thing was floored for 100 yards?  I dunno, man.  

supremedesigner said:

Elon is one smart and brilliant businessman. He knows what he's doing. 

does he, though?  what makes this so fascinating to watch is that this might be the one that knocks him down. buying twitter is a bad idea... for him it's a really bad idea

Dell Buys EMC for $67 Billion
Avago Acquires Broadcom for $37 Billion
AMD Acquires Xilinx for $35 Billion
IBM's Blockbuster $34 Billion Deal for Red Hat
SoftBank Buys ARM for $31.4 Billion
Salesforce Buys Slack for $27.7 Billion
Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion
T-Mobile Acquires Sprint for $26 Billion
HP's Infamous $25 Billion Deal for Compaq
Facebook Snags WhatsApp for $22 Billion

these are hi-tech deals.. do any of these look like basically a single individual buying something for fun and distraction?  *that's a rhetorical question, btw...*

I hope.. sincerely.. that he's using this to get out of the deal and he can go back to the lofty ideals of Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, Neuralink, Hyperloop, etc etc. instead of trying to do.... whatever the frig this is supposed to be.  Free Speech?  GTFOH.  Seriously.

every time some shift like this happens, I go back and reread stories about NeXT and Jobs' wilderness years away from Apple.  It's astonishing that he and the NeXT team followed the technology and seemingly lost every battle until he (and they) ultimately won the war.  Learning to port NeXTSTEP OS to other chip architectures in the early 90s is still paying dividends today on a scale they couldn't have possibly imagined when they were just trying to survive.  shocking success story, really.