They are still operating under the delusion that they are journalists. Because you know that on day one of journalism school they teach “watch a local news story and then write a summary.”

Remaining alert and focused without any actual engagement with the work is literally the worst possible task for a human brain. People have been studying this stuff since the 30s and even beyond the bad user-interface (fighting the steering until it suddenly jerks loose) it takes waay too many seconds for a human to…

You need to normalize your data for miles driven in Teslas vs. not Teslas, your comparison is meaningless.

Your links don’t prove anything. You might want to show the number of deaths per miles driven, and how many teslas are there compared to every other vehicle on the road, and so on.

Humans are inherently lazy, and will get bored and/or complacent. If a driver has to constantly monitor the car and be ready to respond to an event, then there is no point in a self-driving car to begin with. In addition, relying on the car to do most of the work will result in drivers being unfamiliar with the…

It doesn’t matter. Shares are up anyway.

When will Elon Musk and his acolytes realize that they’re the single biggest reason people go elsewhere for an EV or are waiting for an alternative?

Also an old GM plant that NUMMI made plenty of great Corollas and Tacomas.

My take: A lot of the people who buy Teslas are not “car people”. For them, the Tesla is a cool appliance - it is more technology (like an iPad or iPhone) than it is transportation. And even those who do think about the transportation aspect, they don’t care much about handling or the pure enjoyment of driving - they…

Tesla is NOT a luxury brand and never was in anything but price.

“A meticulously detailed car, small panel gaps and candy paint don’t make a car safer, faster, more reliable, or do anything to help forestall climate change.”

With a few of the gaps pointed out in the video, I’d definitely be concerned about leaking.

Truth. After only a month of owning a Model 3, the front end looked like it had been shotgunned with gravel. It’s at that point that I had PPF applied. But I shudder to think what it would look like after 30k miles and no PPF.

The paint thing is definitely an issue. I love my 3, but it has the most fragile paint of any car I’ve ever owned. 

Buyers are eager to get them because Tesla is the “it” car right now. But when they lose their competitive advantages and status as the “it” car, they will have to engineer and build a better quality vehicle lest their market share start tanking.

GM doesn't have fit and finish issues like this.  Nevertheless luxury marks Tesla competes against.

He literally said he didn’t think it was askew. I took a picture of the front of the car and added gridlines to prove it.. still denied it was not straight.

I’m not sure the bit about long trips is true. Electrify America is getting dangerously close to having enough L3 charging stations that you actually can make city to city trips.

My buddy’s Model 3 had a front Tesla “T” emblem that was not vertical.. it had about a 5 degree lean to the right. I pointed it out.. and he said he didn’t notice lol.  Cognitive dissonance.

It’s about a... wait for it... car.