Finally someone who agrees with me regarding the Taycan’s looks. I can’t figure out why so many people find the Panamera’s inbred cousin so nice to look at.

Lol it doesn’t take them 15 minutes to stop either. Not even close. They might take that long to slow down in normal conditions for the sake of passenger comfort, but in an emergency (as in a real emergency, like trying to avoid a collision, not just a single person falling overboard) they can stop in probably a…

This is a patent application. GM is famous for having engineers come up with goofy ideas and they patent the idea just in case someone finds a use for it.

The Taycan, Audi e-tron GT, and I believe the Rimac Concept One all have 2-speed gearboxes (on the rear axle only).

The Hummer is also wider (at least it looks like it) and has MUCH fatter tires. Those skinny (and probably very hard) tires are probably how they get over 400 claimed miles out of this behemoth, but the sacrifice is handling (and the condition of the road surface).

A mild hybrid system would make absolutely no difference in highway driving.

Well, even DUIs that do result in injury or death carry pretty much no punishment 99% of the time.

Model 3s shouldn’t be worth more $15k max brand new.

The Model 3 looks like a Model S that’s suffered from several generations of inbreeding, and the Model Y slightly fixes that by raising the ride height to give it overall better (but still hideous - just less so) proportions.

Our freight rail infrastructure is actually pretty good.

I think it’s potentially a great challenge for computer engineering students, but it would still be just as much of a challenge with less expensive vehicles...

Great Lakes ships are special cases in their own right because they sail on fresh water, which is naturally less damaging than salt water. Plus they usually have 3+ months off in the winter to have repairs done, and probably see much more regular maintenance than an ocean-going ship.

GM had that with the Bolt (minus supercharger compatibility), but apparently they lost money on every one they made at that price point.

“Self-driving cars are better than humans!”

“FSD” is a terrible name given its current capabilities (and even with improvement, I’d bet all the money I have it’ll never get good enough to earn that name), but autopilot makes sense. Airplanes on autopilot still need the pilot to intervene for certain scenarios just like Tesla’s autopilot does; it’s just that at…

Probably a lot until the dust works its way into the important bits. This thing can’t even handle water - coal dust is FAR worse on equipment.

Fortunately Elon Musk isn’t Tesla’s founder anyway.

If literally every other EV from other manufacturers (and literally all electronics in general) is any indication, electrical systems are no more reliable than mechanical ones (and are often substantially less reliable). So basically yes, expect it to still break like other Italian cars.

The Robotaxi will just be a regular FSD-equipped Model 3/Y, but painted yellow with “ROBOTAXI” scribbled on the sides.

Are there any vehicles that allow switching between adaptive and “dumb” cruise control? The only time I ever drove a car with adaptive cruise control was in a rental, and I couldn’t find an option for a “dumb” cruise control. Even when set to its most “tailgater-like” setting, it would slow down for vehicles that…