It’s a prototype, not even a pre production unit. It’s probably holding together with superglue and double-faced 3M tape.

While your image is clearly terrible craftsmanship, this vehicle is an early prototype, build predominately by hand. I am happy to criticize Tesla, but I’ll criticize a production-model

I think we’ve reached the point where the only thing worse then Elon Musk fanboys who will defend him for anything are Elon Musk critics who will take every opportunity to bash anything he mentions, including innocuous things like a charming little indie video game that first came out over six year ago for Android and…

And you wonder why people think journalism is dead. The eloquence of relating Elon playing an indie game to his apartheid benefits, just really good stuff. Highschool newspapers everywhere are envious. Amazing how all of these people just hating on Elon for basically no other reason than him being more successful than…

Building a space launch company, a multi-thousand satellite constellation, and the most successful EV company is a snake-oil salesman?

I’m really not getting the attitude of “Tesla will never produce this or that” these days.

Grocery stores and construction companies?

because it’s a stepping stone. if you don’t want to be part of the process, don’t use the tech. there’s literally a reason for this to exist. 

this article misses the point that L2 is a stepping stone. do you think that automation in other areas didn’t require babysitters when it was in its infancy? automation often makes things worse before it makes things better, or causes new problems as it solves older ones. transition periods allllllllways suck. it’s…

Have to disagree Jason. You can’t get to Level 5 without doing Level 2. This is how development works. You build on top of what’s been done before. This tech might not be ideal right now, but neither was commercially available VR in the 90s

That’s certainly part of the success as well. More so in the U.S. than elsewhere though. :)

Strawman much, pal?

Essentially, traditional manufacturers have customers that are less likely to accept drive unit failures, battery replacements and quality concerns that Tesla early adopters often write off as a small price to pay for a car from the future.

Tesla offered their interface as a standard. Competitors refused, thinking it would allow Tesla a competitive advantage. 

“if gas stations were allowed to...” - This is America, the ARE allowed to do this. They’d sell less gas if they did. Go back 100 years and you’d have cars that ran on proprietary fuel blends (ethanol, various ratios of oil mixtures, various octanes, etc.). A dominant standard will emerge at a given level of…

Most laughable is the bit about long-term battery health as if Audi gives a fuck about reliability outside of their warranty.

So you want to nationalize the Supercharger Network, a private asset financed by Tesla investors as a strategic advantage? That would be a perfect way to destroy it (see history of all nationalized assets ever). If VW, etc. want their own network, build it. If the US wants a nationwide charging network, build it.…

yup

Not quite sure about that one. Maybe if he’d done it in black sharpie I’d agree with you

Stanley Meyer? He was a fraudster. You can’t split water and then get more than that amount of energy back from turning it back into water. 1st law of thermodynamics.