The Max has serious design flaws (that have maybe been corrected) and construction quality issues that are just being discovered. The Max8 has killed 100's of people. The Max9 has threatened 100's more with stupid stuff like loose bolts. There are reasons to be scared of Boeing products.
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I’m not sure they even needed to test it. Just a quick look at it and having a basic and common sense understanding of how tires flex as they rotate and impact potholes ... should have raised questions that this is NOT the best (or even a decent) design. The sidewalls of a tire tend to be the weakest area of a tire.…
You would think with years of delays there would have been at least a small amount of testing, or at the very least the guys working on the wheel would have actually looked down at them and thought “hmm, that may be a problem”
My very first thought. How many were just trying to turn up the A/C?
Yep, I wonder how many crashes were from people trying to stop the terrible auto wipers from freaking out with a gentle misting of moisture, and having to navigate to a central touchscreen sub-menu to do so.
Tesla deserves every bit of shit that it gets.
8 failures out of 52,000,000? Being safe is important but so is reason. NASA has a higher acceptable failure rate then that, let that sink in.
I think we are mostly annoyed at the resulting caveman logic: “mY tRuCk Is FaStEr ThAn A sPorTs cAR!!!”
Truck with almost 2x hp and 3x torque beats car in drag race. In other news, Elon Musk amazes fans by showing that people get wet when standing in the rain.
Title COULD be:
Tesla Cybertruck is pure spectacle, no substance.
Imagine if the Cybertruck had to tow Elon’s ego.
I saw the article. And I immediately thought how that news-ish/whiny East cost liberal finger-pointing site was barking up the wrong tree like what you wrote—many gears keep you right in the sweet spot of torque band—duh.
Between federal, state, and international EV subsidies (tax credits / tax abatements) and the regulatory credit sales (subsidies paid by their direct competitors), Tesla’s automobile business is on course to pull in over $10 billion in subsidization in 2023 alone.
Tesla is not a promise company, it’s a stock pump company. Once you realize that, then everything it (and Musk) does makes total sense. The greatest fraud of the 21st century.
Not sure how you came to that conclusion, but our infrastructure sucks from decades of under investment..
There’s a responsibility to actually know how your vehicle works beyond the marketing.
Yes, but how many people outside of pilots know the limitation of a plane’s autopilot system?
Every Tesla crash I can recall that made the news, and was blamed on autopilot, was clearly driver error. Lots of people ignorant of how their autonomous cars do/don’t work.