Instant messaging. Hahaha. I love that a chat up that used to take up megabytes of RAM not consume GIGABYTES no thanks to the Electron framework.

Thank you! This needed to be said.

What you wrote is generally true and most people have already figured this out. If you’re not living in a space constrained environment, a full size truck makes better sense.

People dump on automation, but history has shown over and over again, when done correctly, it actually increases the amount of human labor required because it frees people up to do more import things that simply weren’t possible before.

I wonder if Tesla will allow self service for the semi. That’s basically more important that acquisition costs.

You absolutely can makes an apples to cranberry comparison because that’s what the general public does.

I enjoy manuals, but I’m still not going to heel toe downshift on some public mountain road.

Truck operators only care about TCO because YOU don’t want to pay an extra penny for shipping.

Username checks out.

They know what they have. They’re not going to let that go.

And yet Toyota actually employed more people and less automation than GM did back in the 80s. Oh. And made higher quality cars.

I always wanted a car to come with a baggie full of extra wood dowel pins.

Living up to my username. I have my theories.

So it’s supposed to be strong and efficient, but it falls apart at the first sign of trouble?

Thank you!

Which is why I think an electric airplane is impossible.

First time hearing about this. Can you imagine being a fleet buyer waiting on delivery of thousands of units and getting the runaround? And there are already contractual obligation?

Trucks are not executed fast. Fleet buyers have much higher financial liabilities.

That’s the one thing they don’t talk about. Fuel tanks get lighter as fuel gets consumed. Inconsequential on a passenger car, but this is a bigger deal in a semi.