Calling it a wagon is sales purgatory. “Minivan” is closely related. 

Okay, so first of all, this problem is pretty much exclusive to early Leafs. As I explained, they didn’t manage heat well and the batteries degrade from that. Most new EVs have a temperature management system that keeps things cool while charging or driving hard. Those batteries will last much longer and won’t degrade…

I wouldn’t say “zero” lag, but the lag is certainly not as bad as it once was.

And give up one of the best wheel designs in modern history??

Cloth seats are so much harder to clean than leather or fake leather ones. I have a car with cloth and a car with fake leather. If I spill something on the cloth seats, that smell stays in there for weeks. If I spill something on the fake leather ones, I get a wet cloth and wipe them down, and I can’t tell the…

Cloth seats are easier to clean? In what world?

What basic functions?

there is no car company on the planet that actually _wants_ to sell its cheapest product.

look at every other car company and try to find their basest base model of their cheapest car. they usually make 1 or 2 per dealer per year to serve as bait and switch cost leader cars (i.e. the dealer advertises it in big print…

The $35K price was a way of getting everyone’s attention. When Tesla got more orders than they could shake a stick at, they put the el-cheapo version on the back burner.

Here to remind you that autopilot does a better job at not-killing-you per million miles traveled vs. human driving.

Does any automaker “have their heart” into selling low-margin cars when they have a line around the block with people ready to purchase well-optioned ones? Jalopnik whining about Tesla, once again.

Tesla never had its heart in the $35k Model 3 the same way BMW never had its heart in the $40k 3 Series, and Cadillac doesn’t really give a shit about selling any $33k CT4's...It’s the same game they’ve all been playing for decades.

Autopilot is not their ridiculous “FSD” and isn’t really any different from any other company’s driver-assist tech. So, no, it doesn’t make the cars uninsurable. And go sit in a car with cloth seats and one with well-made pleather seats and honestly tell me the cloth is better.

Honestly, this whole debate is dumb.

Did you not read the article? The black-box data says it disengaged and presented warnings 40 seconds before impact.

yup, the person chose to accelerate AFTER autopilot disengaged 

Autopilot was not engaged remotely near this crash happening. The driver was 100% in control of the vehicle. I can be confident of this for a couple of important reasons. 1) Autopilot has a terminal maximum velocity of 90mph. Once you hit 90, AP will disengage. It simply won’t run run above this speed. This means no…

Over 90 mph autopilot, lane keep, etc does not work. The driver was at the helm. 

tf you talking about dude. Autopilot disengaged 40 secs prior to impact and the driver applied throttle.

I don’t get this article at all. I think it’s just another piece of Jason’s vendetta against semi-autonomous cars. This is a big fat nothing burger.