OEMs are lost at sea right now. They’re too big and old to strategize the shift to EVs and SW-centric vehicles effectively. This article is case-in-point. Every OEM continues to lay off people in these specialty areas and areas adjacent. They are walking talented SW engineers with one hand while complaining of not…

Glad you get your cake and to eat it too. Your comfort, even when plentiful alternatives exist, is definitely the priority for science at the other 100s of millions of people who live where ground level infrastructure supports a connected life. We should all just deal with it, as long as you are comfortable of course.

Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

First gear: This has nothing to do with “getting behind the push for EVs”. Everyone I knew when I was there was happy to work on any project. The EVs were the halo and people battled to work on them. That’s an excuse to just keep cutting. Whether it was Covid overstaffing, or a miscalculation on the cost of building…

I’ll say if it can only be one number, 350hp. Better to have and not need than need and not have. Cars are good with 300hp and large Trucks/SUVs need 400+hp for me.

It’s not pedantic, it’s about having an open center coupling vs. having a locked t-case/center diff that mechanically links axles *forcing* identical torque and drive speed front and rear. It comes down to levels of risk for the NPS at the end of the day. AWD is more likely to have a problem on a trail than a 4x4. The…

Locking T-case/center diff. That’s what 4X4 means. 50% to front axle, 50% to rear - mechanically linked. So, if you lift one tire (losing power to that axle), the other axle is still driving.

I drive a 2013. I will drive it until it dies. Car prices are absurd. EV prices are worse.

Who cares? I drove some BMW EV that let you pick themes for the car. Each one had a unique acceleration synthesized sound. I thought it was pretty cool. If people want it to sound like an ICE, who TF cares?

Does Tesla’s DMS suck? Or was the guy lying?

As far as on-the-road experience (not counting some nice routes/scenery), Michigan, especially SE Michigan, is horrible to drive in. The roads are in terrible disrepair, there’s always a shitload of (paradoxical) construction ongoing, and drivers in and around Detroit and Flint are aggressively mediocre. Left lane…

Solar City 2.0

They’re sitting ... really close to that much energy flinging apart.

Car emissions are out of sight, out of mind for you I think. Take a look at photos of LA from the 70s if you want to see what life could be like. You don’t care because emissions have improved DRASTICALLY because of this ruling. Regardless, we shouldn’t have to choose which protection we want more, the people should…

Christ, Elon has aged horribly in the last 8 years (assuming that photo is something circa 2016). Good.

It’s 10% of Tesla’s market cap. How anyone could remotely think a single person, even 100, is entitled to 10% of a company that size and complexity is incredible to me. $56 billion is such a silly number, it’s hard to fathom. do you think 1000 people working for a measily $56 MILLION could do a better job than one man?…

I missed the /s here ... Tesla has none of this.

Why wouldn’t you just buy a base model in that scenario and upgraded on your own?

“a deal should be a deal,” and argued that as Musk had “delivered on his end of the bargain,”

“How do we get *more* motorcycle riders to wear helmets”