yeah. My point also isn’t that AP is perfect. It’s just that the false sense of security has to do with the way the system behaves not the way it’s marketed.

Adding a better driver monitoring system would be welcome but would undermine the idea that robotaxies are just months away (please don’t sell your stock) 

I’m old enough to remember people saying Cruise Control (and later ACC) was going to kill people left right and center.

I’m a little surprised people keep harping on Autopilot when Tesla has since tacked “Full Self Driving Capability” on top of it, almost as if to say “Hold my beer” to those complaining about misleading marketing.

I think that you missed the “reasonable” part. A few incidents does not make it normal.

Call me old school but if I’m driving vehicle with supercruise, I’m assuming that it’s travelling at over Mach 1 without afterburner.

If you actually read 1st gear, you’d see NCAP considers it very effective, but they don’t like the name, the fact the interior cam doesn’t surveil the driver and they want a HUD.

Companies also have a legal obligation not to mislead the public as to the capabilities of their products.

People definitely abuse other systems, you just don’t hear about it as much since people don’t know to look for it.

People sleeping in their cars are typically using some defeat device like (banned) autopilot buddy to cut down on the nags as well so they know what they’re up to

Here’s someone doing infamouse Tesla…

The Model 3 was the first Tesla to come with an interior camera.

I’m no Tesla fanboy, but JESUS EFFING CHRIST, this “Autopilot isn’t really autopilot hur-dur” shit is exhausting, isn’t it?

I really, truly, believe that everyone that’s continually complaining about ‘Autopilot’ being a deceptive name that misleads people is grossly misjudging the people that buy these cars.

It doesn’t matter. 100 miles is enough for almost everybody who is satisfied by 300 miles, and 1000 miles probably isn’t enough for anybody who isn’t.

If they want to provide subsidies and utilize clean energy, the goal has to be to incentivize daytime charging when they can use solar. If they incentivize workplaces to install charging stations, install them at public transit hubs and then incentivize the use with cheap charge rates.

Ford owns the trademark for “Model E” and they chased Tesla off their lawn, because they thought it was too close to “Model T”.

I’m definitely interested in a GT and $50k is a pretty damn good deal, IMHO.

The difference between the two is there’s no short-term business case for fixing the climate (at least as long as carbon isn’t taxed.) The first company to figure out autonomous driving stood to make a mint.

Good call about the Lacuna Seca video. There were a few 60-100 pulls though some were coming off corners and not just on straights, but the quickest I noticed was 2.6 seconds (going by the on-screen lap timer)

As someone who’s not a Telsa fanboi and is pretty tired of Elon Musk’s crap, at first glance, that seems a bit pricey, but when you consider it still faster than the Taycan Turbo S, at 200 mph vs 162, with more horsepower at 1,100 vs 751 hp, and way more than *double* the range, at 520 vs 200 miles, and $30,000 *less*…

Eh I rag on Musk a lot but hindsight is 20/20 and I never expected Tesla to be bigger than Lotus. He promises a lot more than he can deliver in time but Tesla as a whole has also pioneered the EV market and delivered more innovation than any other OEM in the past 10 years. Look at everyone copying the large…

It will hit 500+ if you cruise control at 65-70mph. C&D got ~430mph out of the 402 mile rated Long Range model doing adaptive cruise control at 65mph with AC set to 72F in the California heat.