Not to mention that it’s trivial to change your IP on most cloud providers. So if a VPN provider is using a cloud service for some of its gateways then it can quickly remember them if necessary.

Companies like Akamai already do this to an extent. My employer is an Akamai customer, and they’ve offered this service to us in the past when we saw a lot of malicious traffic originating from commercial VPN providers.

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The issue with cloud providers like AWS is that they charge for virtually everything, and that makes it easy to rack up charges if you forget about something you spun up as a test last week and forgot to terminate it. For larger companies it can be a significant issue. So there are other companies out there that you can use to scan your entire AWS account, summarize what you’re using, and highlight things you may not need any more. They’ll also recommend cost savings measures like paying for a year of server time up front instead of paying as you go. If you know you’ll need a server for a year then paying annually is a lot less expensive.

On the plus side, you don’t need to deal with things like hardware failures. We have a large AWS environment where I work, and we’ll occasionally get an email informing us that an instance is “running on degraded hardware”. A simple reboot (power cycle) will move the instance to new hardware. And if you decide you need more RAM, more CPUs etc. then it’s also as simple as rebooting.

No, but it’s far easier to explain how to configure your home network such that 182.168.1.* is for your regular devices like laptops, etc. and 192.168.2.* is for your IoT devices. Then block all access from 192.168.2.* to the internet so your IoT devices can’t “phone home”, can’t auto-update without your knowledge, can’t end up as part of a botnet, etc.

CDN/security providers like Akamai & Cloudflare maintain lists of known Tor exit nodes and keep it regularly updated. That makes it trivial for customers to block that traffic.

Source: My employer is an Akamai customer and we use this list in some our WAF policies.

Being a unibody design, even a small fender bender can be extremely costly for a Tesla. An accident that merely dents a fender in a traditional SUV could deform the frame of a Tesla. Replacing a fender is trivial, a frame not so much.

I think the overall margins on Teslas, prior to this monstrosity, was something like 20%. Most ICE cars, on the other hand, have profit margins in the low to mid single digits. They could certainly lose out on a tiny bit of profit to switch from glue to fasteners…

My refrigerator tipped over and sprouted wheels.

There are plenty of beaches where it’s perfectly fine to drive off road. But it typically requires a permit, proper equipment, knowledge of how to properly deflate your tires, etc.

Well at least until the battery comes in contact with the rising salty tide… Then it will have a nice char to replace the patina.

Teslas have a Sentry Mode that enables recording of all the cameras when the car is locked and a USB flash drive is plugged in.

The car can also record clips when you do things like honk the horn, as a way to try to capture relevant video before an accident etc.

Any vehicle with a unibody frame is effectively totaled when it gets bent/crumpled in any way.

If I was the owner I’d be reaching out to my state Attorney General at this point, and providing recordings of all communications with Tesla.

Wait a minute… This thing is built with the same materials as that Titanic mini sub that imploded?

You mean you don’t push trailers?

Surprised it didn’t break down in a handicapped spot…

Yes, they have effectively all been recalled. But that doesn’t mean they get pulled off the street. It basically means there’s some sort of issue that needs to get repaired and the manufacturer will pay for it. Depending on the type of recall, number of cars affected, availability of replacement parts, etc. people could be forced to wait weeks or even months before getting their car fixed.

Plug the car into a power source and yet the outlets in the vehicle don’t work. So don’t forget an extra extension cord (or two)…

Jeez…