What still cracks me up are all the “experts” who kept claiming that “everyone else cheats”. But when after everyone else was tested with the more stringent measures, no one else was cheating.

Hind sight is 20/20. Sometimes we make the mistake of always assuming that everyone is playing by the rules. When someone isn’t playing by the rules it opens up to an infinite number of possibilities that we don’t want to deal with.

This, IMO, is what makes it a “material” matter to investors. It’s not the fact that an accident occurred, but the circumstances under which it occurred, and how that relates to consumer understanding of Tesla’s product two weeks ago versus consumer understanding after learning about this incident.

There were recent studies trying to find even one fatality on a bikeshare, because statistically there should have been more, if you compare to average bikes and miles traveled. So the question became: what are they doing right, that could be emulated with other bike riders to make bike riding safer overall? (though…

Assuming what you’re saying is true, and autonomy will increase the number of accidents cause by “dumb” things that could have been avoided had the driver been paying attention, is it “acceptable” if the overall accident rate goes down?

Your points are valid but it regulation won’t be coming because of an effort to correct TM’s failings.

Tesla Motors looking in from the outside does some things wrong or doesn’t do them at all. I don’t know who they are hiring but they keep having huge glaring holes where if they are hiring experienced people, people…

Yes, they can account for it. And they should.

Jason, this is a fantastic analysis of Tesla’s autopilot shortcomings, but I’d argue that it’s missing the point. I’ve been beating this drum at every opportunity (basically every time I see a Jalopnik post wherein you guys drive around in a Model S doing everything but driving). The public’s perception of Telsa’s…

...continued down the road until crashing through two fences and a light post.

Bottom line, it doesn’t matter what he was doing in the car, what matters is what he wasn’t doing, which is driving. He got so confident with his use of the system, and encouraged by the popularity, that he probably thought the autopilot would drive for him, or at least save him.

remember when a volvo engineer said tesla wannabe autopilot was dangerous and people jumped on him? i do

The problem is twofold:

Thanks for a story on Tesla that isn’t free advertising. Great job.

This post includes the word, “kerfuffle,” so it is a Good Article.

I can’t say anything about reliability- but I finally saw one of these driving on the interstate yesterday, and man was that thing UGLY. Some sort of mix between a very bland suv/crossover and a concept car from the 80's or 90's that didn’t age well. Made me realize that there truly are people out there who nerd out…

What I still do not understand is why DRLs are exclusively a “front-of-the-car-only” thing. Why not have all of the lights on the car come on with the exception of the headlights? Now that everything is LEDs, it’s not like it’s inefficient, or bad for bulb life. At least that would solve most of the problem. The…

This post is thus far Jalopnik’s best attempt to quantify the damage Tavarish has done to people’s lives through his writing. Bravo!

Yep. The “Limited” and base “Custom” shared the same 3800 Series II V6, widely regarded as a fantastic engine. And 205hp was quite decent for a car like this.

Crazy to think that private corporations wouldn’t make the national good their first priority. Who could have ever predicted that?

As a former valet and brief Jeep dealer employee, these stupid shifters caused me a lot of headaches. It is very difficult to get into reverse without skipping past it because, as you mentioned, the notches are very light and easy to pass over. When I was hustling cars around lots it was usual to be in drive, then put…