1st Gear: This is all an attempt by Musk to have Tesla valued as a tech company rather than a car company. Unfortunately for him, investors are getting a bit tired of waiting on autonomy. This was his big chance to show his plans on how to do that, and instead we got more vague plans and two new vehicles! (Oddly…

It is a hardware problem. The reason Waymo works and Tesla doesn’t is that the car simply doesn’t see objects it would with Lidar.

Because Americans, like Alton Brown, hate unitaskers. Most people should be using mini cars in places they make sense like dense urban areas, and renting a pickup from Home Depot for $25 for the 75 minutes they actually need them every other year. We should also be building out robust public transportation on the…

Does he put an ottoman in a car seat for long road trips?

What am I missing here? Siemens already has a production facility outside Sacramento, CA. Does that not count?

People, when the engineers tell you, “This thing will not work, and I’m not getting in it,” listen to them.

Wow. I already disliked Hoonigan, but to know that they were associated with “Starbucks For Pathetic Manbabies Who Buy MOLLE-Webbed Tactical Baby Carriers” is even worse

Hoonigan, prior to the merger, was a promotional agency masquerading as a t-shirt/youtube brand. They made millions on deals with big companies like General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, FCP Euro, Kubota, Black Rifle Coffee, etc.

Post-merger they wrapped the Hoonigan name around the company formerly known as Wheel Pros, so…

I honestly didn’t know that Hoonigan was anything other than a slogan or name. I associated it with Ken Block but that’s as far as it went for me. To discover it’s an actual business with $1.2 billion in debt blows my mind as much as those gymkhana videos. This might be part of their business problem.

If it doesn’t come to a complete stop with other cars at other stop signs, I’d honk at the guy.

Can you prove that coming to a complete stop reduces the frequency of accidents?

When I took a traffic engineering class, I learned that autonomous driving would be better because it eliminates the human element: bad decision-making, bad habits.

Yeah this always made sense to me. I do agree it was probably staged with the expectation that “we’re just not going to plan around it running out of charge and make that the downside” because at the time, that was indeed a HUGE downside!

It should. Automated vehicles should be following the rules of the road, not the bad habits drivers form throughout their lives as shit drivers.

Yes? 100% it does.

“In the review, Clarkson commented on the poor range of the car, which lasted just 55 miles on a race track, and claimed that it took an eye-watering 16 hours to top the battery up once again.”

First Gear: For the love of god, Tesla (and Waymo and the rest), stop forcing the public to participate in your half-baked experiments against their will.

It’s real weird to for two people to confidently pontificate about an event that happened a decade and a half ago, which neither of them witnessed, on a TV show that neither of them were involved with at the time.

Lol what is this revisionist history. I don’t own Apple products and that will probably continue but this completely ignores how much better the iPhone was at the time. BB had their own thing going on and they were doing well, but I had tried multiple touch screen phones before the iPhone and they were mid at best. It…