There is a very clear chain of advancement for every technology we have from predecessor tech. And any extraterrestrial tech would almost certainly be so incredibly far ahead, we’d have no hope of even understanding its principles, much less reverse-engineering it. Imagine handing an iPhone to an Australopithecus…

Lack of Fisker’s cloud software would be annoying, but mainly it’s for the phone-app (which lets you see where your car is, and send addresses to the car’s nav). The built-in 4G connection is likewise useful for the maps updates and streaming music. But, we already know we can stream music from a Wi-Fi connection to…

And for anyone digging thru these old comments, I actually got my Ocean updated to OS 2.1 last week, which resolves a couple of minor bugs (that hardly affected me anywhere). The only feature I really long for is seat-position memory, which was slated for version 2.2, which I’m sure is dead in the water. So close!!!…

That legit sounds way worse than my Fisker Ocean, which also doesn’t have full 360, but it does have five different camera views, including two synthetic views from the back right and left. The Ocean does remain fully drivable even when you reboot the infotainment system - it's weird in that the camera view (when…

He already said “BMW x6". Hideous is redundant.

What total nonsense. Democracies are always fragile, and always at risk of failing. Saying that something that's fragile isn't worth saving is sheer bloody-minded stupidity - would you smash a delicate glass sculpture because it's fragile? The American experiment hasn't failed YET, and it doesn't need to. Will it…

You’re right that a conviction isn’t going to change anything for his committed base. But numerous surveys have shown there is a slice of voters who don’t particularly like Trump, but who are planning to vote for him, who say they won’t vote for him if he’s convicted. If the election is very close, that slice could…

I wonder if this will be enough for Elon Musk to stop seemingly to support all Republicans.... probably not, Musk has become as irrational as Trump.

This! I would add that re-electing Biden is not a permanent thing. In 4 years, he won’t be eligible to run again, and some non-Trump Republican could be voted in. The problem with Donald Trump and his supporters is that they’ve explicitly said, on camera, that they want him as a king. They actually want a dictator, and…

Including the United States, where general aviation fuel is often leaded.

While I don’t like Nikki Haley, and I think she’s a coward, she’s also not a threat to democracy itself the way Trump is. There won’t be a mob of people storming the capital for Haley. I would take a Trump death anytime I could get it!

Please vote in November! ☑️🗳️

This is probably the most cogent analysis I've seen on this.

The Cybertruck seems like the worst of that list - rather than releasing something like the much-discussed Model 2, or an EV pickup with broad market appeal (a la Rivian R1T and F-150 Lightening), he wasted a ton of resources and time on a divisive vehicle with mediocre range, and looks that... well, they don't have…

Sure, that’s why we’ve had full self-driving cars since 2015, when Elon said we would, right? Then he said 2016. Then 2018. Then 2020. And EVERY YEAR SINCE. Musk has a habit of drastically underestimating the difficulty of achieving things, and is perennially wrong on when he can deliver them. So maybe in 2032, Tesla…

“... Tesla doesn’t have anything against LIDAR per se, and it’s not a personal vandetta. Tesla wants to make cars and sell cars that will (eventually) make them money. LIDAR is still wildly expensive..”

I think your analogy about floaties is just wrong - a better analogy would be trying to design a submarine with arms or fins to swim, rather than acknowledging that submarines are not people, and that driven-screws are far more suitable (until caterpillar drives become practical, which are also a mechanism not used by…

Some of the parts being replaced - like my charge port door assembly, which I stupidly broke off by backing out of the garage with it open (d'oh!) - are likely exactly the same on pre-production and production models. I have no idea what the source for my part was, but it was a perfect replacement. 

Although I would absolutely vote for a ban on any vehicle - lifted or not - that obstructs the driver's view of the road in front. Even OEM pickups have gotten so high, with such high hoods, that they're resulting in increasing numbers of pedestrian fatalities, usually children.

Another significant reason for the rebound in sales is almost certainly due to Tesla’s aggressive price cuts. When the Model Y is $15k cheaper, it’s a lot easier to overcome one’s objections to Musk’s political antics. Plus, several EVs that seemed like reasonable alternatives a year ago (Fisker, Lucid) are now…