I think the question is, if Mercedes made an X competitor with 80% of the features for 50% of the investment, then the contribution X the product line has on TSLA value should be ~40% lower. Obviously, it would happen as similarly with all other competitors to the S,3,&Y.

Was going to say the same.

The motors spinning only uses enough energy to shape the air using turbulence to form a virtual airfoil. This virtual wing then uses the wind energy to generate thrust like an airplane wing generates lift. The energy used to spin the sails is way way less than the energy harvested from the wind. Otherwise this…

Would agree. But said more simply.  The rotating poles are what shape the air to form a traditional sail that then capture the power of the wind and convert it to thrust the boat can use to reduce the power needed by the engines.

Your first bit is correct, but your middle half reasoning is false. Boats can travel faster than wind speed. It is not the wind inertia that is pushing a sail, but the DIFFERENCE in pressure infront of the sail and behind the sail. This pressure is due to the speed of the wind flowing across the shape of the sail.…

Operative, phrase: a guy at a car show let my 4 year old Son...

What about those mercedes with the glowing tri-star. Those are easy to distinguish, but I guess not in a good way either. So, I you are right, none of them stand out.

Your scaling didn’t account for the rotation in the two profiles.  Your zones should be much closer to the head/helmet position, still reinforcing the belief and statements of the driver, he would prefer to have the halo.

I know exactly why they created the halo. It was for this accident. Go see new video footage and dispute it. The tire was rotating back into the cockpit area as the car returned to the ground and swiped right across the halo. Had there been no halo, Leclerc would have lost his face/head/life.

Dude go see the new videos and eat crow.

Your cartoons are a joke and you are not an engineer. Just because a triangle is formed where you put it does not mean that a car or something else could not fit inside that triangle. Additionally, just because it was implemented for one kind of sliding impact, doesn’t mean that it must not not protect in others,…

Seriously, you’re going to engineer this from behind a computer screen? You know that it was not designed to take a load from above?

You complete ignore the scrapes on the paint to suit your carton. So I marked on YOUR picture where the scrapes are located in blue. And also included your own screen capture.

that makes more sense now with your input.

There is a huge paint scrape across the halo right where there used to be nothing and exactly in front of where only a helmet would be. It is in controvertibly clear this would have been fatal.

It is amazing that we live in a time where not only do you get a random event as crazy as this recorded, but we have 3 completely unique views.

I said you cannot weigh air with a scale.

Well, no. you can’t weigh air with a scale. It doesn’t exert any force on the scale. It simply weighs 1 lb. more.

I just scanned the reddit link and it is just as ridiculously clueless.

Honey?