Couldn’t possibly be related to the fact that it weighs 10,000 freaking pounds...

It's fine. There's 3 cybertrucks coming to rescue it. No hang on, now there's 2. Wait, one. 

What’s old is new again at GM

Nothing to do with the ‘alleged assymetric braking memo’ that allowed Max to get the car ‘ever so pointy’ on turn in, the handling style he likes, and the last team mate he had who could handle it that way was a certain Australian who left after the Baku shenannigans years back?

1st gear really wants to make me say “Yeah, no shit.” But I am curious if we’re still safer overall with the aids than without. i.e. are people doing to be distracted anyways? I’m a big proponent of phone down, drive your car but I know that’s not just a thing you’re going to convince people to do. If the data backs…

The fine doesn’t match the crime. The punishment should be to sit in a enclosed cubicle pumped full of the emisions that come from these idiotic modifications.

this. The fines sound like a lot of money but if he made more than that selling those devices, then all these fines will do is show him that he can still make money doing it.

He probably did whichever one the customer asked for.

Both would be Clean Air Act violations.

That’s only $36/device. Still made a profit.

The base fine is nothing. Sure, I would like $2.4 million, but that equates to about $10 per device they sold. I’m sure they made way more than that in selling them.

A great start. I hope they go after very shop in the country that did this kind of thing. We could probavbly wipe out the National Deficit if they just got every shop in Florida, South Carolina and Georgia.

Rudol has to pay another $7 million in civil penalties ontop of the $2 million fine.

It reminds me of this line from Wrongfully Accused:

How would a cop looking at a parked Tesla know if Sentry Mode was activated?  Are they just blanket-towing every nearby Tesla just in case?  Either way, this seems way too broad to be legal.  By the same logic, they could just seize every laptop they see because the webcam *might* have been on and captured something.

Police suck, I get that it has “evidence” but towing an innocent bystanders car that doesn’t have direct physical evidence such as blood splatter, fingerprints, or bullet holes on them is bullshit. Follow some kind of procedure that doesn’t deprive someone of transportation unnecessarily, leave a note on the vehicle,…

Reason #2500 to not buy a Tesla.

I grew up in the country/in the sticks. It was not unusual to hear gunshots from target practicing or hunting or ATVs going by, or a barking dog. Hey it comes with being in the country, the same as hearing police sirens and car alarms and traffic comes with living in the city. But that’s a far cry from your neighbor…

I live down the road from folks who love to run dirt bikes and ATVs around their property all summer (and snowmachines in the winter). Sometimes they do some backyard target practice, just to really spice things up.

Everyone loves to make fun of “protecting the local wetlands” until their neighborhood floods.

I would like to share a few comments from my editors, who first heard this take nearly two years ago and still hate it: