The batteries are not junk, they just lose range. It’s not like your car is bricked after 8-10 years. It’s early in the game, folks. 

Evidence.

False.

Unless you can see inside, that’s a bold claim. Those trucks CAN fit, but the garage is probably full of dirt bikes, or side by sides, or just a bunch of shit. It’s amazing around me how many 3 and 4 car garage houses have $200k worth of cars parked outside, and I catch a glance inside, and it’s just boxes and shit…

And yet some how Tesla has managed to squeeze more profit out their cars than any other volume manufacturer. Toyota manages something like $1,000 profit per car while Tesla pulls about $10,000

I was a driving instructor for many years. People literally freeze and tense their muscles in one position. I had a student heading for a fence with the throttle jammed to the floor. I reached over and grabbed the hem of his shorts and tried to pull his right leg off the throttle. I coudn’t. Finally my increasingly…

Sensors sense, they don’t control. If the computer misinterprets input from a sensor, then that’s possible to record the driver’s action as “accelerate”. But sensing 2-3 sensors wrong at the same time (telling the computer that the driver is accelerating) when everything else on the car works is just incredibly low…

The brakes should apply more power than that for long enough to stop the car. In this instance the brakes weren't applied at all. No brake lights means no brakes applied.

I’m pretty sure they also limit (if not completely cut) throttle when the brakes are used.

Tesla brakes are still hydraulic. There is no mechanism in the vehicles that will disengage the mechanical brake. The systems can apply the brakes and they are returned like every other car. The brakes are powerful enough to overcome the electric motors in the vehicle.

Pedal misapplication.

Not much of a Tesla story here other than the fact they can check really detailed data of the accident so quickly. The are numerous accidents each year where people think they are standing on the brake pedal but the are on the accelerator. Apparently it might happen in Teslas, too. 

The thing is the conductive parts (the two DC pins) and the actual power conductors are essentially the same size.

That certainly makes sense in theory, but in practice the Tesla connector has carefully delivered up to 250 kw hundreds of millions of times without issue.

As a human who has to interface them, it does mean a huge amount though. Look at this side profile, which is to scale, of Tesla versus CCS. I’ve heard a lot of people say CCS can take two hands to hold and get inserted.

Nope. This was posted on Twitter and Elon replied saying it was false.

The Leaf is something of a worst-case scenario due to its passive battery cooling. That turned out to be a bad idea, to the point where no one is doing it that way for any current car.

My dude...

At some point, it will be economically viable to reuse/recycle the batteries from cars.

It’s not Lithium that’s mined in 3rd world countries, it’s Cobalt. Older style Lithium turnery batteries used Cobalt, but newer style LFP batteries use very little to none. The use of Cobalt will drop, as the price of it has gone up. Plus, all of the metal components in these batteries are recyclable.