I don’t even get it honestly. I am a tesla owner (Model Y, not stock), and while I love the car, and it’s by far the most expensive vehicle I’ve ever purchased (the only new car at all).... Autopilot is a cool party trick... as long as you don’t mind giving your passenger’s heart attacks every trip you take when it…

Not really ‘a kid’, but blew my mind around the time I could first financially be looking at new cars.... Second Generation (MY2013-) Ford Fusion. An everyday person’s sedan that looked (and still does) better than 99% of the luxury cars on the road. Add the dope color choices (the pastel-ish silver-ish blue is to die…

I meant to say A3 Etron which is a PHEV, sold from 2013-2018 and again in MY2020. Both in US and Europe, and the reason I know and was confused is because my neighbor has one and I honestly thought for a good 10 minutes they had a new electric car before I noticed the A-series branding and gas standard grille.

There is an A4 e-tron which is a PHEV. It's confusing AF.

Ironically, water snowmobile racing is not particularly dangerous. The failure modes are rather benign due to the slow (overall speeds), and the stability of the craft at speeds is surprisingly strong (I mean look at the corners those guys take). Maybe I’m just biased ‘cause barefooting at 40 mph makes that seem like a…

What Tesla conveniently omitted is that they screwed up their first submission, they didn’t send in the second one till June 2020, and anytime you screw something up on the first attempt like this, you can be sure gov (or similar with corporations) takes much more detailed comb through both submissions to make sure…

Actually the real issue was that many automakers canceled existing contracts during their shutdowns and failed to anticipate how increased demand in the sc industry as a whole would lead to huge leadtimes (6-18months) which meant giving up the contracted capacity was incredibly shortsighted. This issue on the whole…

Not in this case. The root problem is huge demand on much higher margin parts than automotive due to the pandemic and also mining boom. This applies pressures on leading nodes, which then applies pressure on older nodes as other projects get pushed off the cutting edge... and many automakers canceled their orders for…

Nah, that just means build them like Apple. Make everything proprietary and locked down as much as possible, including making part repair far more restricted and often prohibited than what automakers are allowed to get away with. 

I would buy one now. Man that sounds great.

Would I buy a Jeep, period? No.

It’s funny, Renault did awful y1 with Riccardo along with serious reliability deja vu ala the year before with Red Bull and Renault power, but y2 he actually did a lot better than his officially (and initially) stated goals of a podium by seasons end. Now Riccardo is gone, Cyril is gone, and Alpine looks like trash.…

Even as a tesla owner, I think a huge amount of blame should go into the trivial process of subverting the already massively inadequate controls on Autopilot abuse. They also deserve even more blame for calling it Autopilot and/or FSD.

Meanwhile... Tesla...

For a year where it was claimed Mercedes was sapping the energy from F1, this was genuinely a crazy exciting season overall and 10 episodes genuinely wasn’t enough to cover most of the highlights. Sad but also super understandable that Max wants out, and that the new Williams ownershi doesn’t seem to want them in just…

Tesla owner here. FSD is a scam and a sham. Autopilot is barely good enough where I’m okay using it on roads, if and only if I don't mind it randomly flipping shit and giving passengers heart attacks because a road dips before a bridge... 

Umm literally the opposite. I take the cable with me everywhere, and a dedicated charger exists at my residence set up. I don’t actually know anyone with an EV that doesn’t take it with them. Well now I do I guess, if internet people count.

Aka Tesla areas with Service Centers that either exist or are not overworked. (Admittedly many spots are too overstretched, and other locations are hours from the nearest one... but I happen to live in that happy medium and man it was a nice "dealer" experience. 

2nd: Volvo Dealers freaking out are idiots. This coming from a Tesla M Y owner, who never ever would have considered buying one without having a service center/showroom (and test drives) nearby. The website doesn’t sell the car, you do. Minus the awful bullshit quasi-illegal shit this time. Besides used to be that…

I tend to think either the individual 4 powered wheels or the tesla-style (they aren’t the only ones, but still) two open diffs and just fancy individual brake software will be the go to for future vehicles. First being for “hardcore offroading”, second being “AWD in-case of inclement conditions”.