I mean, this guy doesn’t exactly fit the “anti-gumamint” stererotype you’re probably picturing. Perhaps that is why most of the articles covering this just use stock images.

You most certainly do not. It makes you more competitive, especially for cushy suburban departments, but it’s not a requirement. I would be surprised if you could find a single local PD or sheriff’s office in the entire country that explicitly lists that as a requirement.

Came here to say this. Companies like Google and Apple aren’t just hiring Stanford grads. There are so many free or low-cost resources available that allow people to learn coding, computer networking, cybersecurity, etc. without attending college. These self-taught people with a passion for what they do are often…

 blue collar jobs for non-college educated people have absolutely disappeared

With the current belt-tightening happening at tech companies, it will be interesting to see if Amazon continues to dump money into them. They clearly still have a very long road to mass deployment, much less anything resembling profitability, and appear to be way behind the likes of Waymo and Cruise in terms of actual…

I’m living downtown in a city unfortunately so I don’t have the space nor the tools.

I am paying slightly more than that, but that’s for a V8 and full synthetic.

This is the third time we’ve used 1 way rental to go to the airport actually.

Honest question... what’s it not competitive against? Customers aren’t realistically considering 1-way rentals as an alterative in 99.9% of cases.

$180,000 sedans are not the future.

Only one specific high-performance trim of the Lucid is $180k. The cheaper variants which I imagine will make up the bulk of their sales start around $90k.

That does seem like a bit much, but the headlines (which we all know most people don’t read past) make it sound worse than it is by omitting the fact that they only continue calling you if you don’t answer. Hopefully this was just a temporary measure to help them meet end of year targets.

A lot of people don’t consider the Model S to be a true luxury car, whereas the Air is squarely aimed at the luxury market. The price difference does amount to more than just drag race stats.

You better have a fat wallet. They run $250k.

On top of all of that, for every $100k of revenue, they are losing like $150-200k just on a COGS basis without factoring in OPEX. This is before their mix is more of the cheaper models AND before losing tax credit.

It’s in the center console though? Not far from where controls would typically be located.

Assuming that’s not including taxes, though.

If it were a public charger that wouldn’t be much. Home charger is a different story. These things have 500+ miles of range which means most owners will rarely, if ever, need to use a public charger if they charge at home.

He says he doesn’t think FSD will be viable until all the vehicles around the area are communicating intentions to each other.

> implying electric trucks from established competitors aren’t already on the market