With earlier versions of the Model S, Hellcat owners were getting hot and bothered over which was quicker. Tesla put that one to rest. But what Hellcat owners seem to be missing is that the Hellcat wouldn’t be a viable alternative to the Model S even if the Model S came in slower. Tesla’s Model S is a family sedan…
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The model S is a sedan. But it’s also a hatchback.
If two cars both have a 320 mile range, but one has a 20 gallon gas tank, and the other has a 35 gallon gas tank, it’s true either one would go as far as the other. And it won’t matter to the user which one has more drag. But it will matter what gasoline costs, and to a lesser extent, how long it takes to fill the…
Honda stopped making the Fit EV in 2014, but if they still made it, you’d have to consider that it’s about the same price as a Bolt, but gives 82 miles of range instead of 200. You are making a false comparison if you compare the non-EV fit to the Bolt. If you are going to do that, you might as well compare the Fit to…
They will lose their jobs as fast as elevator operators lost their jobs once push button elevators appeared. In other words, they will have the jobs until they retire or die even if it gets to the point that it would work without them 100% of the time.
Some people don’t get sarcasm.
That could happen, but it’s much less likely in a Tesla. Tesla has the same access to that data as any other car, but the car itself reads signs with cameras. It would have to either misread a sign, which isn’t likely unless a person does a meticulous job with spray paint, or miss a sign in an area where the data it…
“Autopilot” is a standard term for pilot assistance functions that don’t eliminate the need for a pilot or even allow them to stop paying attention. They control some aspects of the flight, but aren’t a collision avoidance feature. They control speed and altitude and pitch, as well as keeping the airplane headed in…
On an undivided freeway, even if the driver overrides it, it will limit the speed to 5 mph above the limit at most. In this case, the driver overrode things, just as drivers can in any car with their foot. Even in situations where autopilot does limit the speed, it still won’t stop the driver from flooring it.…
Kinetic energy is equal to mass times the square of the velocity over two. It’s the squared part that’s important because it means that the extra 9 mph means about 30% more kinetic energy. That’s no small thing.
The car will NOT be programmed that way. It will have enough sensors, cameras, radar and whatever else is needed so that this situation won’t happen. Engineers don’t program things for situations that have a 0.000% (rounded) chance of happening. They don’t design cars that take their eyes off the road and realize at…
“Cheaper” and “cheap” are two different things. When you consider what $649 or $400 gets you with any other consumer electronics ranging from media players (with or without physical moving media) to big screen TVs, a phone gives you little for your money. The raw materials for the electronics aren’t all that…
The Model S was about six months late. It was a newer company that had never made a car from the ground up before and had no relationships with suppliers, and the ones it was making were with companies that weren’t sure if Tesla would ever make 1000 cars. The Model 3 is designed to be easier to build, Tesla has a…
That’s a load of crap. I took an 850 mile trip this weekend. The first stop was a restroom break that my wife said she would have asked for had we not been stopping. We literally didn’t stay there a moment longer than we had to. The next stop was for lunch, and the car charged exactly as much as it could while we ate.…
If you actually read what people bitch about on Tesla forums, it’s not what non-owners and bears bitch about in forums for people who have never been in a Tesla. You won’t find many complaints about people breaking down on the road or people running out of power or people finding that the car doesn’t have enough range…
Customers are never the beta group. The cars are designed with software that upgrades itself, and customers have the option of using new features, or sticking with the ones that came with their cars just as with any other brand. The difference is that with other brands there’s no choice and the cars will never get…
The Bolt isn’t even a competing vehicle. I suppose when you were looking for a spouse, you considered only height, weight and shoe size and found your ideal match. Life doesn’t work that way. People don’t decide that they want a vehicle with a particular range at a particular price point and that nothing else matters.…
You think they’d prefer the model that other companies use where the car isn’t quite right, the electronics could be improved, but the only way you will get anything fixed would be to trade it in for the next model year?
It couldn’t have been a case of butt summoning, or the vehicle’s logs would have shown that it started from the fob instead of the shift lever.
It’s not about doing something to help less than one percent of your customers. It’s about getting new customers. If Tesla adds superchargers in your parking lots, and of all the people who pass through, only a handful a day go to your business, it can still add up to a lot.