I agree that median transaction price would be far more useful in giving most buyers an idea what new cars cost. But it’s difficult or impossible to find for some reason. I can specifically search for median car prices and every result, including the stupid new AI summaries, gives me average. Not what I asked, MFer!

I like passive driver aids like lane departure warning/assist rather than lane-keeping.  You do have to have some driving task to keep your attention on it fully.  Some rabid Autopilot fans will try to tell they are even more alert than they would be without it, but science says otherwise.

Do they all do eye tracking now or can some older models not have that “feature”? Used to be just hanging something off the wheel fooled it, I think.

Ever think about where your money is going when you gas up an ICE vehicle?

“What is the actual benefit here?” covers ALL of their self-driving features and really anybody’s Level 2 autonomous drive features. I don’t care how relatively good one make’s L2 is vs. someone else’s. If it’s L2... it’s crap. YOU are always the final backup. The failsafe. The one liable if something goes wrong. You…

Oh is that what that is?  Noticed it stepping out of a recent test drive of a M3P.

My guess is overproduction leading to them being parked for long periods of time in the open and then being too lazy/cheap to wash them before delivery.

What ARE all those black marks on the walls anyway?  I assume that is not from Teslas veering off the pathway and climbing the walls, right?

Speaking VERY relatively here... I gotta be honest. It looks better wrapped in ANYTHING than it does in its own ugly-ass dirty stainless panels.  Yes, even that floral print.

This used to happen to my PC gaming joystick all the time.... in the 80s.

I don’t even understand the appeal of this thing for NON-truck stuff. The flat panels make it look primitive to me rather than futuristic. Like it was built by a civilization that hadn’t yet figured out how to bend steel into more complex shapes.

Depending on who wins — former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris — the world of EVs could look a lot different to start 2025.

For me the damning thing in the header photo is that green at the top of the windshield. Yep... that’s a reflection. If light from inside the car is reflecting off the windshield back towards your eyes at night.... it is objectively wrong. This is not about taste. It’s just wrong.

IMHO, any type of driver assistance that lets a driver take their hands off the wheel should not be available. It absolutely raises the possibility for BAD outcomes.

Imagine how much better we could be at sensing things if we ALSO had laser beams coming out of our eyeballs.

Your $80K car is also LARPing.

I doubt they are unaware. This is clearly a business decision and, as far as that goes, who exactly is proving them wrong on that business decision? Are people rushing out to buy better-than-Autopilot non-Tesla EVs at a premium price for lidar?

This. It doesn’t matter whether there’s a disclaimer that states this whole thing was the owner’s fault. It’s in any case kind of concerning the car can’t “see” an object headed straight for the rear window.  If they are going to stick with just cameras, maybe the rear camera needs to be mounted on the roof line like…

It’s a little annoying but I like to think it’s even more annoying to the dipshit who decided to ditch a well-known brand name for no good reason other than his own hubris and narcissism.

Re-reading my own post a day later, I guess there is one thing I missed: People often express their desire to boycott Tesla as “not giving that asshole Musk any money” but in reality, the entity you want to harm financially IS Tesla. And not because Musk will ever care but maybe because eventually Tesla’s shareholders…