I would expect the passenger seats to gimbal in order to compensate for the G-loads and angle of the craft. Musk showed a gimbal seat concept for the Hyperloop where the seats spun and tilted as the tube accelerated.

Yeah, it is weird how cheap our Dyson vacuum feels when you grab the handles and buttons, but we’ve used it regularly for the last seven years without anything braking or causing a problem, so I guess it’s built well enough for the job. There’s an old engineering saying: ’Better’ is the enemy of ‘good enough’.

That’s true to a certain extent, but Tesla has that brand image for a reason. The Model S is a genuinely astonishing car to drive. I test drove one with high expectations, and I still came away stunned.

I have some, although you can get LED versions that flash and last much longer.

Sarcasm fail...

Well yeah, but they also have a huge parts bin of motorcycles, ATVs, and UTVs to pick from, along with decades of small vehicle engineering experience. They hardly started with a clean slate.

How about driving a rented Ford Focus down the freeway next to the Gaza border, with artillery shaking the ground? It’s funny how much faster traffic flows when gunfire starts vibrating the car windows.

Your “ecometer” is fooling you. Generic OBDII readers are just looking at throttle position and RPMs, which are universal OBDII parameters common among all OBD cars, so it’s easier to make a “universal” device.

Every vehicle of mine cuts fuel during engine braking. I have wideband O2 sensor and IDC logs to prove it.

My Subaru WRX would cut fuel during engine braking, so it really just functioned like a gravity-powered air pump during long descents. In that case, it was more efficient to leave it in gear as coasting in neutral would have forced the engine to idle.

The world is full of stupid people doing stupid things every single day. It’s just that police officers are the center of political and media focus right now, so any stupid action within a police department (and this was absolutely wrong and stupid) is going to be pounced on. For every instance like this, there are…

Rural areas are almost by definition more xenophobic and conservative.

Which is why I suspect this dealership, as well as many other buildings in Florida, have hurricane windows.

Try living in PDX, or any of the outlying suburbs. The EV charging grid is totally adequate already, and is only getting better. Yeah, that’s absolutely not the case for the majority of the US, but there are places in the US already where an EV as a city car absolutely makes sense.

Right, but Tesla probably lost money on that expensive 75 kWH battery pack when installed in the 60, they just sold the cheaper option as a way to proliferate the Model S to people who might not have otherwise been able to afford it, hedging their bets the owners would upgrade later.

If millions of people flood the roadways, with (let’s assume) wealthier populations having access to the optimized and controlled hive of the autonomous network, and everybody else is left with the hardware but limited by how much they spent whenever they bought the car, we’re putting the lives of wealthier people at…

I’m sure with time I could get used to it, but why not give you the option like every other EV? It’s just software. We bought a Leaf instead, and it has “D” and “B” modes, where B is the one pedal mode, and D will coast more like a gas car. I tend to switch back and forth between the two depending on what the traffic…

I can drive a stick, and it didn’t help. It’s not like you can rev-match a single speed electric drivetrain...

Hmm, I’m 6'1", and fit just fine in the back. Could be my stocky build, though.

Maybe they left out the Isetta as BMW didn’t originally design it, Iso SpA did. BMW licensed the design, then heavily modified it and put in their own drivetrain, but it wasn’t their own core design.