Just an FYI - as an Insider...

“But it will only be a matter of time before some enterprising YouTuber decides to saw one of these new puppies in half to see how that mysterious new “high-security feature” actually works.”

pics or it didn’t happen.

Exactly - I said both acted badly - but the coach actually helped her out a little there.

The truth of the matter is that she dropped her hands first as an intentional snub. So she did this as a purposeful act. Kind of like Sherman attempting to give Crabtree “good job dropping the ball” ass pat.

Said in the style of Giggity.

I hear that there are some nasty Klingons surrounding uranus. Maybe we should wipe them out?

At least it’s not Bugs Bunny dressed as a woman.

That’s good to hear. We need more of this info to come from tesla to the general public. There most likely is a large segment of the population that fears buying stuff online, especially the second most costly purchase a family can make (second behind housing).

Those who have already gone thru the process know how this all work (thank you for giving us some details of the process, BTW).

This just means that repairs will be limited to those who can pay Tesla the big bucks to access the IP related to the vehicles. How does that help the local mom and pop repair place. Remember, this will be for a $35,000 every-man car, not a 6-figure luxury barge.

And, apparently in most states, no place to sell them.

“This flat out isn’t true. Tesla will freely license their EV tech to other companies who want to use that tech in good faith. The few instances they’ve litigated over their IP was when those patents were directly infringed upon not in good faith, and seemingly without any prior contact with Tesla.”

Actually, most of the regular car buying public, have no idea how they sell their cars. Since they don’t have a dealer network, the only info available is on their website, I guess. No TV ads or anything.

MEH!

This launch is going to be a disaster.

Not everything from Black Mirror was bad. It did let us know that heaven is a place on Earth.

This is Jalopnik - all we care about is the TQ #’s

LOL - so true.

I drive a 2013 Passat TDI - I consider the new models (2015 and 2016) to NOT be a new model but a very slight refresh (new headlights and taillights don’t really make this a new model). More like the 12-14 Passat is NMS 1.0 and the 2015-16 are NMS 1.25