I know Zaslav is a complete fucking idiot. But when I watched The Flash recently, half of it, I just could not believe even he could have looked at that and thought it was anything but another brick in the wall of the terrible Snyderverse...the fact that he really thought it would be successful or the narrative around…

Can confirm as an engineering nerd I like watching the wings

Who wants to see the wing? I want to try and see my house when we go over it. 

I can get used to the design but can we all agree that illuminated grilles look incredibly tacky? When I see an i7 on the road with a bright white outline illuminating the grill, it looks more like some cheesy aftermarket kit and incredibly inelegant on a 6-figure vehicle.

I’m guessing it’s the sunk costs of R&D. They were doing the same headlines for Tesla for years, claiming Tesla was going to go bankrupt, losses on every car sold, etc. That was when they were building the Fremont factory, developing the Model S, X. Then building out Nevada and developing the Model 3. Then with the…

It’s the latter, and creates better sensationalized headlines. Many companies have loss leaders (mixed in with other profitable products of course) for a variety of reasons. In this industry it just so happens the halo products come out first with profitability the 2nd leg.

I’m pretty sure it’s the latter, and it’s just the cost of doing business. They’ll eventually reach the breaking point and then they will start printing money with these things.

Is this amount lost on the incremental cost of producing an individual car or is this just if you include all of the sunk costs of R&D and investing in production facilities? Because it’s significant if it’s the former, but incredibly misleading if it’s the latter.

The typical derailment is just that. A wheel or two came off the track. Put the rerail frog under it and pull/push it back on. Happens literally thousands of times for every major accident like this. The nature of narrow steel wheels with a little flange keeping them on a narrow steel rail.

Honestly given the level of willful negligence that Boeing has engaged in, I think that they ought to owe a hell of a lot more than 1 billion.  millions of passengers have been put in danger because they cut every corner possible with their recent planes.  

You’re right. We’ve been trained to call these “derailments” like we’ve been trained that an auto accident is a “whoopsie, someone had an accident today when they plowed right into a bus stop, killing 5".

i always find it interesting how you americans call these “derailments”. where i’m from something that involves cranes and produces scrap metal is far beyond a simple derailment and would be called a major accident

US Pedestrian safety guidelines:

The CT is not going to be sold internationally due to its serious lack of pedestrian safety. Keep in mind that Tesla insisted that they couldn’t add a tone generator so that Blind People could hear their EV approaching, unlike other EV makers...

What morons!

This is America, we don’t have standards for pedestrian safety.

How do trucks like this pass pedestrian safety? A large flat metal front with sharp corners. Or because it is a truck its exempt?

Hmm...

Yeah this is pretty fucking hilarious. “Well there’s your problem, you got your hundred thousand dollar piece of transportation machinery SLIGHTLY DAMP. What did you expect?”

Truck owners usually like to brag about what their truck can DO, like drive through a two foot deep stream in the woods not having shield it from routine weather.