and Elon planting the seeds to be able to eventually tell current owners that “FSD” won’t work on their cars equipped with HW3.

FSD actually needs a human to monitor things, why can ASS exist withoutone? How is this allowed?

Narcissism is a hell of a drug.  And that’s probably not the only drug he’s on.

Some people will have a field day throwing themselves at robotaxis, trying to collect a Tesla payout.

I get what you’re saying. In the end it is probably moot who actually carries the insurance because, of course, it will be the owner of the vehicle who is paying for it one way or another. Either they will directly hold a policy or, probably more likely, will pay either a very hefty up-front price for the vehicle or a…

If your government doesn’t require an autonomous cab company to accept full liability, (a) Don’t ride in it, and (b) Vote those assholes out.

The only way full autonomy works is if the car maker is responsible and has to carry the liability insurance because at that point everyone else in the car is a passenger.

That said the real answer is what others have said already which is 300 miles/charge, which is roughly what an ICE car can get on a tank.

It doesn’t take much imagining, really.  Remember the Trump COVID protesters?

Are those ultra-low profile tires or is there just a goofy aero wheel cover over a normal profile wheel/tire? Either way I’d expect that to change if they ever produce this thing. Neither is a good idea.

I wouldn’t worry. He’s just as full of shit about autonomy as he is about most everything else.

My favorite really though is all the “Christians” who are voting for the thrice-married adulterer who was banging a porn star while his third wife was pregnant with his fifth child, then lied about, then got convicted for cooking his financials to cover it up. Shit, CPAC even raised a golden statue of him. It doesn’t…

I was gonna say. Since when is $2B a “whole lot” of money to the U.S. government? Don’t we pay something like 10x that amount in fossil fuels subsidies?

Backing in. At least for all the Superchargers I’ve ever seen. The charger stand is in the back of the parking spot and the charge port on all Teslas is at the rear of the vehicle.

Yeah funny typo, but definitely “lane change” because it has a real problem with that. I currently have the trial month on a new Model 3 since I’ve no intention of buying the feature. I’ve only tried it once. It was seriously unimpressive and I can’t imagine why anyone pays actual money for it.

It seems weird to have to say this on what is (or perhaps only was) a car-enthusiast blog but... it’s just a good car. I owned one for almost six years and it was reliable and fun to drive. And no matter how hard I’ve looked around in it, I can’t seem to find “Elon Musk’s Shitty Politics” anywhere inside, so I’ve yet…

It seems to vary wildly by location, almost like it’s up to the local management. I paid a lot less for my Model 3 just last month and got a very professional delivery experience. Cars in the delivery bay (there were about eight of them, including even one Cybertruck) were all showroom clean and waiting for their…

This is exactly why allowing this kind of incremental self-driving should be illegal. There are too many people that are far too dumb to to be trusted with this.

Hilariously, it’s now called “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)“ so somebody made them add that, but it’s almost like seeing “Full Self-Driving (But not really)“ in the parenthetical.

That is a combination of bad GIF compression and Gary Oldman going waaaay over the top in that scene. That’s not a bad AI lip-sync. Dude actually did that with his face himself.