Nothing wrong with it, as long as you’re not pretending your cheap demo-version reskin is an actual product coming soon, when you’ve got no ability to make that product by the deadline you make for yourself. If you’re showing a prototype model, the key is being honest about it, not any inherent problem with it being a…

Oh, you’ve found Johnny’s new ride.

Silicon Valley CEO with a history of responding poorly to any kind of question that isn’t basically praise with a question mark responds poorly to the possibility of difficult questions being asked, film at eleven.

Looks like Ed Niedermeyer’s theory about them doing everything they can to keep these cases out of court because they absolutely cannot afford to be subject to the discovery process continues to look pretty solid.

No, that’s the thing - They absolutely do have one. I remember a bunch of tesla owners were complaining because they’d turn around in their seat, and it would shift the car into park because the weight sensor would trip the safety as they lifted themselves up to turn around. The driver’s seat definitely has a weight…

Well, I mean, that’s what I’m talking about - it DOES have one. I’ve seen complaints about them being too sensitive, even, with people turning to see out the back while reversing being enough to shift weight off it and automatically put the car in park. It’s just that for some reason, apparently, Autopilot doesn’t…

The really weird thing is that you’d think they’d have the seat weight sensor turn off the autopilot if it detected nobody in the driver’s seat - apparently, it doesn’t. It certainly stops the car if an actual person is driving, but apparently not on Autopilot? Either that, or he disable the safety weight sensor…

That’s horrifying! Having cars rust out that quickly is genuinely unimaginable to me - If you buy a car here, if it’s been reasonably well kept, if it’s anything less than ten years old, any noticable or notable rust is a big red flag. I’ve seen plenty of cars that are 20 years old, and barely have any rust. If you…

Yeah, I gotta say, I don’t know much about Cleveland(Though oddly, I do know the editor of the Amherst News-Times, small world) but I’ve heard a lot of bad things about what the road salt does to a car. That certainly makes for an impressive lifespan - Mine is 28 years old and has never seen a salted road, and she’s…

Aw man, that’s cool to hear! Thanks for telling me about it - despite their problems, they really work a pretty bloody good workhorse vehicle, and as I said in the initial post, surprisingly fun to drive.

I don’t think the Vannette was sold in the US

Either that, or it just hadn’t burned down yet. The issue with them was that the engine was simply too big for the engine bay it was in, which left no room for heat dissipation - since it’s under the vehicle, and heat rises, it would just build up till it burst into flame, and like a pyromaniac with wooden legs,…

Well, I’m not going to say it was an aspirational goal - but I’ve definitely become fond of it over time.

And I must admit, I take a different view. It doesn’t matter so much about what you’re seeking out, it’s just having the love for it, that’s what’s important. Doesn’t matter if you drive a clapped out old van, or a…

I think I’ll wait for the one inspired my Armie Hammer.

Yeah man, for real! It’s wicked late here in Australia(just crossed 2:30am, working late), but I’ll get in touch tomorrow morning.

I drive something that’s not only rare in my own country, it has single digits on the road in the US, AND it has made the top spot of multiple “Worst vehicle in the world” lists - A 1990 Nissan Vanette, a vehicle known pretty much solely for spontaneously self-immolating, and that Nissan recalled all of them in the US…

And over there where the age of consent is 14

Mine was the “Coast to coast, unassisted autonomous drive” they were going to make by 2017 in 2016, then by the end of 2017 in 2017, and now by the end of 2018. You always make a good pot on that, because you get both the starry-eyed Tesla devotees AND the Self driving fans who perpetually think it’s just around the…

On marketing? I’d be frankly stunned if the collective ad-spend of every major automaker put together made it much past a billion in a single year. If they did, then they absolutely would not cross over the 2 billion dollar mark to justify calling it “Billions.” Certainly no single automaker spends even close to a…

Not only does Tesla not spend money advertising