Menlo Park, California, Labor Day Weekend:
Suppose that a Democrat wants to take a ride in a new Tesla Cybercab, coming soon to a city near you? He/she/ze/they wouldn’t want to be seen in the vehicle without a disclaimer on the back. How about selling temporary magnets and vinyl cling signs? Here are some ideas for the wording, but maybe readers will have better ones…
- Democrat on board
- I support autonomous driving, not autonomous trillionaires
- I hate Elon Musk
- I needed a ride. I didn’t join a cult.
- Robotaxi passenger — not a Tesla customer
- I did not choose the CEO
- Vehicle’s politics do not reflect those of its passenger
- (for the older rider) I booked this before I remembered who owns Tesla
- Temporarily occupied by a registered Democrat
- I am using this vehicle under protest
- I have serious concerns about the owner of this company
- This is transportation, not complicity (#FreePalestine)
- I am participating in this ride ironically
- NPR tote bag in the trunk
Figure $15 per magnet/sticker. A majority of Americans are Democrats. Tesla hopes to address the entire market. Each Democrat might need three stickers/magnets per year (some will fall off; the messages will lose their novelty). We can’t get money from babies, but the U.S. population is at least 343 million (nobody knows the true number because nobody knows how many migrants live among us). The total addressable market, therefore, should be approximately 150 million times $45 per year = $6.75 billion per year for Signs of Righteousness LLC. Does anyone see a flaw in this business plan?
Used to know a meth addict who financed his addiction by selling social justice and black lives matter signs online. Meth is expensive so he must have been successful
Pretty typical representation of the seer sucking summer liberal attitude around here. Become as filthy rich as possible & wear a lot of bling saying you’re against rich guys to keep your righteousness intact on Sunday.
Wouldn’t it be more like center – left X tesla owners? Google Gemini says there are about 3 million Teslas currently on the road. So estimating about 60%, we get 1.8 million Tesla owned/operated by center+left owners, which gives us $81 million gross per year. We can help the owners “save the environment” by having these mass produced in India/China at 50 cents a pop and then shipped overseas, alongside having all of the staff employed overseas except a U.S. based employee or two for legal/tax reasons. Total profit would be maybe around $50 million a year?
Why develop the knowledge, experience, expertise etc. for a startup like ArsDigita when you can just put your finger on the pulse of the current climate and make twice as much? Then when the president-elect leaves office, just pivot the company to right-wing slogans? (Kamablah, Sleepy Joe Isn’t Behind This Wheel etc.)
Though we do have the precedent of 2008 for this type of business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XOflkBHQXA
Unrighteous cars are just the tip of the iceberg!
Are you boycotting Amazon Prime because of AWS’s involvement with ICE? But you just have to watch that drama about hot hockey players?
Are you boycotting Starbucks because of its labor-union policies, but you must have that flat white right now?
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Robbers could stop Cybercabs easily just by stepping in front of them. Do you really want to advertise that the passenger is rich, righteous, and unarmed?
A Cybercab could be used as a Soup Kitchen by Dirty Mike and the Boys. https://youtu.be/NYfwRtS9Rmc?si=sbPld1XyCv_OKWXl