The fact that you or anyone else thinks this conclusion was the result of a three-minute conversation is laughable. The math in a pet-project movie meant to get a conversation started is not indicative of any sort of cohesive plan - it’s just a number to reach and to get the conversation started. This -

Fast. Neck-snappingly fast. Very fast.

“Is there a problem officer?”
“Citizen, what is your name?”
“My name is James Tiberius Kirk!”

Someone brought that up before, but that’s even more misleading. A Co-pilot can take full control of a plane even if the pilot was not available. This is not that case with autopilot, which is purely assistive (pilot or copilot must be present during its use).

I think we can all agree that we need more Steven Ogg in general. He was great on Better Call Saul, and the few glimpses I saw of him on The Walking Dead were good too.

Only thing I can figure is that they don’t know that Westworld is a show about androids and that she’s literally playing the character of a deadly sexbot.

Mass to orbit is only expensive if you are not reusing the mass. Musk’s plan calls for reuse of the boosters up to 1,000 times.

Nope, still not thinking in terms of cost. Fuel is cheap, mass to orbit is cheap, so long as the system is 100% reusable.

Well, Plunkett’s an Aussie who most likely follows British English grammar rules...

So, if Michigan lawmakers pass rules to allow Tesla to sell direct to consumers within the state, will the dealers lobby accuse the lawmakers of conflict of interest by trying to manipulate the value of their investments?

“Tesla used to be a company that made super sedans from the space rockets guy. Now it’s a company that makes minivans from a dude selling solar roofs to people who still clip their phones on their belts.”

The only reason Tesla isn’t making a profit on paper is because they spent $5 billion on the Gigafactory. The Model S and Model X are priced to be about 20-25% profitable at current volumes. I believe that’s a higher profit margin than most normal gas cars.

This is a load of bullshit and you know it.

I honestly can’t think of anything worse than for one of the big three to buy the company that got the industry to take electric cars seriously.

That’s pretty impressive to see the Tesla take a hit like that and still be identifiable. You can see how much energy was involved from the path of the truck.

John Schindler (https://twitter.com/20committee?la…; https://20committee.com/) accurately called Wikileaks as a Russian front three years ago. His writings on Snowden are equally accurate.

Actually you bring up a very good point. Search the Leaf forums. Nissan dealers are universally reviled as being completely ignorant of the Leaf, reluctant to sell it, and often times actively attempt to steer sales to other cars.

You completely missed Tesla’s point. Their cars are different because they are electric. Not because they’re high-tech or hip or whatever. What other industry forbids sales by the manufacturer? It’s political cronyism at it’s worst. “sorry sir we can’t sell you our macbook directly, visit one of our dealerships, they…

I always wondered about that. Pretty cool actually, such a small detail makes such a big difference in the look of a cars interior.

@picrad: urghh... i prefer the black n white drabs than all this tacky yellow n pink!!!