Well the tax credit is down for Tesla at the end of of the year. As far as no gas tax, that is just another in the long line of reasons to change to an ezpass type usage toll. Especially for heavy vehicles like 18 wheelers that do a huge amount of water and tare on roads

Well they have a very limited menu which helps a lot. Just chicken, no burgers (that come in a dozen varieties with different combo of toppings)

I would agree with you except these same people chose to replace a Tesla with a ... Newer Tesla 

they said repeatedly that it avoids the use of stamped parts. i’m not an expert in heavy manufacturing but from everything I’m readying it is a lot simpler and cheaper to simply bend some flat metal sheets compared to more traditional designs that require complex metal stamping machines and then relatively complicated…

because if you take a normal pickup that sells for 50K and add an electric drive train with all the batteries you end up with a 70K vehicle. They fixed that by simplifying the manufacturing which resulted in a polygon on wheels

except those production lines are at capacity and if they end up selling this in any volume it will likely need it’s own dedicated production lines. Lines that won’t need a paint shop, won’t need nearly as many of the robots to weld pieces together and probably most importantly won’t need as many human hands in the…

i mean... sure. but there is also the fact that this is being targeted at a different type of user. instead of a random person driving to work or mom taking the kids to soccer this is for use on construction sites and areas where nicely paved roads aren’t present (either because they are in the middle of being paved…

Ok so here is what he listed:

I don’t know that I agree with the F35B being the exception. They have their own vessels, they have been in the process of procuring an amphibious assault platform for who knows how long.

To your first point about the mindset and issues, I agree with that although I would contend that should the rangers be tasked with a different mission portfolio the mindset would have to adapt. It wouldn’t be the first time the mission for a particular military organization has been modified.

while i agree with you the fact of the matter is the whole pass on the left thing is not a law in most places in the US and in or near major metro areas it is virtually never observed. So the car is doing what plenty of regular drivers do.... which was the intent of this whole automation thing. Make something that is…

it would probably make sense to have a small force of combat specialist soldiers, you can still call them marines, who are within in the navy for this purpose and base defense etc. There is no real reason they need a dedicated command structure though and some of the bigger equipment like the air power and the ships…

my only counter to your comment about the idea of the marines as a “small-self-contained, elite shock troops. First ones on the beach, etc.” is that the Rangers could be used for that purpose, no? I understand that you would need to increase the numbers of rangers but they are supposed to work within the combined arms…

highway driving is way less complicated then parking lots

There are plenty od 2014 model S’s on the road. So clearly not 4 years on the dot

Its a $2,000 fix. Ive had more expensive issues come up with four year old ICE cars

this comment had me so confused until I realized that both CATASS and CHIEF QUEEF were both nouns

lately that is getting more and more to be the case

Ummm.... the Taycan isnt available yet either. Deliveries are months away. They are both preproduction models.

I ford switched to cars that require E85 and those gas stations switched to only sell E85 no one would sue. What are hou talking about?