The system is there to “assist” not to do the driving for you.

Or even better: mirrors. Adjust your field of view simply by moving your head a tiny bit.

I doubt you can find a single home that ever consumes 10 megawatts.

https://www.iol.co.za/motoring/motorsport/banned-rally-car-wins-eco-competition-1173924

The camera based system in my Lightning lets me do things that will get people killed eventually. They simply can’t make the system sensitive enough without pissing off the customers to the point where nobody would use or buy the system. They (Ford and Tesla) are trading people’s lives for money. There will have been…

The bolt is simply a fantastic car. If it were $15k cheaper after incentives and had some style beyond what the committee came up with it could be perfect. Sadly, for a confluence of reasons, it can’t be made affordably.

Which is what my family does. One EV, one gas car.

But 40% of households are single vehicle households.

Nissan did figure it out.

You can’t compare the Model S to an S-class. You can compare it to a 5-series.

Decade old EVs are becoming obsolete because they’re compromise drivetrains that primarily appeal to EV enthusiasts and early adopters. Not because of software and batteries.

Charging stations at work were a stopgap, and we’re already approaching the end for viability.

Go test drive a 2022 Chevy Bolt, and then go test drive that 2013 Model S.

You’re not breaking it to me. I know how L2 systems work. “That’s just how it is” doesn’t make it OK.

It’s not capitalism if you dictate that people must buy the product and dictate how much people pay for the product.

Healthcare isn’t a right either. Nobody has a right to force another person to provide them a service. Period.

This is the solution for single payer healthcare as well. We are going to require people to have healthcare. We’re going to assume private entities will provide it, and we’re going to dictate what the government is going to pay for it.

They can’t. Even if it’s L2.

The driver cannot be reasonably expected to intervene with no indication in advance that the car is about to make a potentially lethal mistake. And of course the software can’t alert the driver to an impending error it isn’t aware of. Software is excellent at being confidently wrong.

I’m sorry your trip sucked. But...

I also live on the east coast. I’ve been daily driving an EV for a year now. I’ve gone on 6 road trips that have involved an overnight stay. I’ve gone out of the way to pick hotels with charging, and I’ve yet to successfully charge at a hotel. The chargers there are always either broken or full.