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It’s Truck Month! It always is!

Well it’s August and the dealerships aren’t taking orders.. in Southern California, which is where you want to be able to sell your EVs.

Indeed. I don’t understand why so many people on here are shitting on Tesla for basically saying “we need to sell cars to keep manufacturing and selling cars.”

Yea, but everyone bashes Tesla for, you know, actually SAYING it.

Every OEM does it. So, thank you to all you 80s and 90s Corvette and Viper drivers, who funded my ability to drive Cavaliers and Neons....

Can you even imagine how much nut Derek would be making at the Catalina Wine Mixer?

Self parking is like 5 years old.

Volvo’s autonomous technology has had very public and embarrassing failures, whereas Tesla has had a few freak accidents, but they’ve been real drivers in the real world. Not failed press events:

I think it’s quite laughable that a lot of people think that pilots sit back and do nothing when the autopilot is on. That’s not true at all. They still have a pretty high workload and lots to do even with the autopilot on. Most people think that an autopilot means that you don’t have to do anything when it’s on.

Autopilot is a bit different than all of those other terms. Autopilots have always been used to handle specific tasks to assist the pilot, but never to replace the pilot.

This woman legtimately needs professional help.

That’s horrible that her son died and I hope she eventually heals from such a traumatic experience.

The tollway system around Chicago has the same sort of system, they call it I-Help

During weekdays, most busy freeways in California are covered by the Freeway Service Patrol (call 511). They’ll give a tow, change a flat, even give a gallon of gas. Some areas and construction sites have extended hours. The basic idea is that by spending a little money to get broken down cars the hell off the…

Pipe dream. Components are future-proofed all the time, it does not mean the actual product is. Future-proofed as in, not having to design and produce the tooling to replace that part in the future - not for upgrade ability. The number of revisions and tweaks that go into a product between iterations means that…

The quote doesn’t say that the fiberfix broke, though. Maybe they didn’t have access to more than 2000 lbs of weights when they did the initial test?

My GF’s plug-in hybrid (a C-Max) doesn’t even run the gas engine unless she hits the highway. Around town, to work (5 mins each way) and to the store and for errands, it’s always in electric mode. She plugs it in every night, and that’s pretty much normal... the 87%. The gas is there for the not-normal stuff. She only…

my vehicle for moving my motorcycle to places IS the motorcycle :)

Electric car for the mundane. Motorcycle for fun. Problem solved.