Corners have to be cut somewhere when you’re trying to build out like Tesla. They suffer the hits from this in the panel fiasco and some reliability issues. Granted all this testing does little for manufacturers since recalls are pretty common still. Might as well design good, do limited testing while making sure of…

Maybe audi/porsche use the same “standards” as they did with their diesels..

And excuses, apparently.

The divorce is a good thing. It really is. I’ve learned some things. Like don’t marry the stripper you just met at your buddy’s bachelor party.

0 to 60 in less than 3 seconds. 60K starting price for the base model.

Oh Jalopnik.  You’re going to have to come up with some pretty good ideas on how folks should hate this car.   Good luck. 

neutral: the common person is so far removed from ever even remotely dreaming of purchasing a ferrari that i feel about this one the same way i feel about all of them:

sounds like good news to me, I like the minimalist design of the model 3 and if Tesla actually hits Autonomy level 4/5 then it will be much better for it.

Rarely. Which is one reason why their roads last longer than say Detroit’s. But even in Minnesota, if you tunnel >30ft deep the temperature will be constant year round.

Congratulations to The Boring Company for proving dedicated rights of way are important for speedy transportation, something transportation planners figured out roughly two centuries ago.

The most amazing thing about the boring company is how many Jalopniks readers still can’t understand the fact that they’re working on tunneling efficiency, not public transit. He literally gave away “Hyperloop” so others could tackle that part of it.

But since the average reader here has the attention span of an onion,…

You could easily fit a WOLFPAC 4100 in there.

Raised roadways are ecologically much worse than a tunnel and infinitely more susceptible to tectonic or load failures.

Found the armchair tunneling “expert”.

You have experience with tunnels I’m guessing?

There isn’t going to be any thermal cycling, frost heaving, overweight vehicles, or ground subsidence issues. The pavement should remain near perfect for the foreseeable future.

“To anyone who ever believed Elon Musk’s bullshit: you’ve been had.”

I think the goal of trying to make tunnels cheaper is still valid. I don’t think anyone can disagree that there just isn’t room for more roads and more intersections in many places. From a practical standpoint, tunnels still make sense. Figuring out what goes in the tunnel, whether it be cars, trains, etc. doesn’t…

Of course I would never send humans out there. I’d hire a project manager to send them.

Neutral:

Tesla-FCA merger imminent. Just think of all the JD Power awards they could win.