I3 is more expensive than a model 3, slower than a model 3, and has less than half the range of the model 3. The i3 isn’t a generation ahead it’s behind in every way that’s important to a buyer except (presumably) build quality

Well, the Tesla in the video did cost $66K more than the Jeep in the video. Even if we go by base prices, the Tesla is still $54K more. If we just look at the Tesla, the P version that allows it to beat the Jeep is a $38K upgrade from the regular 100kWh version and all that buys you is better accleration. There’s no…

Not me. I had the opportunity to have a Model X 90D for 3 weeks, and I drove it over 1,000 miles over that time and paid pennies to run it that distance (thanks mainly to the Supercharger network). The Trackhawk would have cost me hundreds to drive the same distance in fuel, and wouldn’t have driven any better/worse.

Sounds... cling to the engine sounds.

You mean like the 3rd and fourth races against the Jeep that are in the video? 5th run overall after a test pass. Yeah, it still drug the Jeep down the strip the entire 1/4 distance.

Sooo...you didn’t watch? Lemme help they did 4 runs (plus a practice run in the Tesla, and per the video, the supercharger heat soaked and slowed it down, however the Tesla did not overheat to the point of performance retardation.

Note: Not a Tesla fan boy but really not a fan of FCA’s lack of ingenuity with just…

Yeah but…

They ARE fail-safe. They aren’t dumb safe. This guy left the seat without engaging the brake. The only failure was on the part of the bus operator. If you are driving your car, and the electrical system cuts out, would you want the brakes to slam on? Nope! Nothing “failed” here. The operator was asked to “power cycle”…

Would you want your car to slam on the brakes if it lost power? The power loss isn’t the problem. The fact that the driver left the seat without engaging the parking brake is the problem.

I’d take a pair of old timey workmen carrying a large piece of glass across the road, that is perfectly sized such that a bus could drive through it without hitting either of them.

Did we get that at least?

Fruit is not allowed in Springfield, Massachusetts by city ordinance. Too exotic for the folks there.

Yes, it would have worked. It is indeed pneumatic.
Source: I used to drive these things.

So if a passenger on the bus had theoretically run to the front and engaged the parking brake, would it have worked? I know the parking brake is probably pneumatic, but does it rely on the bus’s electrical system to control it, through relays and solenoid valves and stuff?

Jeez, look at all those asshole jaywalkers.

You’re not wrong.

It must be a “corporate” mindset there. I ran into Robert Hight at the Best Buy in Yorba Linda one afternoon. I stopped him, asked him if he was, indeed, Hight and when identified himself I shook his hand. All I wanted to do and told him so as I did not wish to bother him. He offered to take me and my family to the…

In fairness, I’d imagine you might get a little worked up if you were driving along one day and a senior citizen swerved into your lane then rammed your car into the guardrail.

Fairly sure the pacing there is his sign of concern. He is a racer, not a first responder. I would bet good money that either the safety crew told him when he got out of the car to stay back, or its covered in the driver’s meeting. You don’t stick your nose into the fray when the medics are doing their jobs. All…

I’m not sure they will. After three years of trying, and it’s still a grenade. Even when there was a factory Honda team (2006-2008) they never had particularly good engines. The whole team didn’t break 100 points across all three years. Remember; a Honda engine hasn’t won an F1 race since Australia in 1992. Their last…

Honda will eventually make it right, and there’s good chance 2018 will be that year.