It’s the difference between “designed to fail” and “will eventually fail”. The Tesla was designed to fail, best case 12 years. Practical worst case, 3 years. What other major car company builds cars with an explicit “end of life” age built into it?

Their standard line is “Fuck you, buy another one” so I suppose this is an improvement. Tesla lowers the bar so much that apparently they get judged on a sliding scale. Like how Trump was so incoherent when he spoke that, when he managed to put a rational sentence together, some news pundits described it as…

Normal manufacturers do not make cars that are intended just fall apart after ten years. They get superseded by the next great thing, sure. But they don’t have important components that are designed to fail in that time frame, aside from consumables—which the MCU is not. As I said, the average age of a registered car…

So, Tesla intends their cars to fail after 10-12 years. Good to know if you’re thinking of buying one used. The youngest car in my personal fleet is 17 years old and all my machines work perfectly fine, so a 10-12 year intended service life seems remarkably shitty.

Tesla has batteries.

There should have been a Volt Division of GM 15 years ago.

GM has fighting words for Tesla.

That’s like when I go for a walk with a vape pen and I’m like, “Damn, I’m still on 46th? I’ve been on this same block for like a half hour, I think.”

People under the influence usually seem to survive accidents that severely incapacitate or kill sober people.

You don’t often encounter a wreck so bad that it causes fires and floods AT THE SAME TIME.

What is it with people running this red light? Happens all the time.

Big-Ass-Camper owner driving way too fast through a red light - I’d like to introduce you to Low-Ass-Bridge and someone we like to call Karma.

Ehh, there’s plenty of room for creativity without going across the “We know there’s a 99% change the dude isn’t going to like my ridiculous suggestion but I’m going to show off how much I know about cars by suggesting something there’s 0% chance he’ll actually buy, but still technically kinda sorta checks the boxes”

I remember when you guys used to give real, plausible suggestions, seems like now this topic has devolved into some weird jalopnik contest to see which writer can pat themselves on the back for giving the most obscure response. 

Agreed, except I feel if you want to allow Autopilot to be engaged you need to mandate automatic braking to be engaged as well. If this guy had fallen asleep rather than driven like a douche there would still be an accident of some kind.

Exactly. Not on autopilot (for nearly a minute before the crash) and the driver’s foot was on the throttle. This is a bad driver story, not a Tesla story. The only reason we’re talking about it is because Teslas have cameras built in and they capture bad driver behavior and go viral.

Exactly. Not on autopilot (for nearly a minute before the crash) and the driver’s foot was on the throttle. This is a bad driver story, not a Tesla story. The only reason we’re talking about it is because Teslas have cameras built in and they capture bad driver behavior and go viral.

I feel like it’s wrong that I find this funny. I can’t figure out who this is for.

Very well maintained? Sure, it probably got regular maintenance, but it also got tons of regular abuse.

It’s just fresh air ventilation! Don’t panic!