‘Free’ was actually FREE. No need for quotes. Yes, these people were on the hook for taxes, but every single person was still better off for it. This article is written in a tone that makes it seem that some people were put in a worse situation due to this promotion. Yeah, some people couldn’t afford the taxes, but…

Jesus Fahey, around here (ie. Canada), saying something like that is liable to get a man killed!

People fall asleep at the wheel no matter what car they drive. A car with autopilot will give people more time to wake the drive up.

Man I loved that show but the last two seasons were hard to watch. Feels like ideas that would have been secondary in the first couple seasons are the primary ones lately. Part of me wishes they would take their time so it’s better, or make whatever show they want but jeeze it’s a cartoon. Sjdjdjskskjfjfd

These aren’t model 3 owners, the model 3 key works without internet. These are morons who lost their S or X key fobs or have dead keyfobs out of power and decided not to carry them, and have been relying on the emergency start car ability of the app. Meaning they either were too cheap to buy a new fob if they lost it…

So to clarify this: the Tesla app works fine as a Bluetooth key even if the service is down. However, for the other cars like the S and X they come with a regular key fob. However you could use the app via the internet to start the car IN AN EMERGENCY if you lost your key fob. The key fob will work even if out of…

The Tesla 3 backup key is just a credit card sized card. Easy to fit in the wallet or purse. All the folks I know with Teslas (mostly male engineers) keep the spare on them.

Tesla could not make it easier to carry a key for the Model 3.  It fits in any wallet or purse.  Not carrying one is stupid.

There’s plenty of case law that contradicts your armchair analysis. But let’s ignore that for a second, and ask: why should we ONLY be concerned with the specific details of legal culpability? That’s an awfully narrow thing to argue, and here it has the effect of letting an obviously negligent corporation off the…

Your comment doesn’t fit the narrative for this website or the “author”. Don’t you know, Tesla bashing gets more clicks which means moar monies!!

Exactly.

Yep and most people are not very good at the actual act of driving itself. I’m all for fully autonomous vehicles because I see WAY too much bad driving on a daily basis.

I’m on board. Blame the morons, not the manufacturer.  But Tesla does suck in many ways.. one of which is the way they sell their autopilot. I mean go beyond the name and what that may or may not imply, go to their website and read what they say this system will do.  It’s dangerously over-optimistic and fuzzes the…

“It’s also established that Autopilot was on and remained engaged despite the driver’s inattention, and it seems to be a case study in how semi-autonomous driver inattention while driving can go horribly wrong.”

Why are we shouting that Tesla “let” the driver do anything? Is the licensing process for operating these machines that meaningless now? As someone licensed for the privilege to drive cars on public roads (yes, it’s a privilege and should be regarded as such) everyone should be fully aware of their responsibilities…

did not read [the vehicle’s] manual, like almost every other person who owns any car anywhere ever.

I’ll check it out, thanks!

Still some bullshit.

In 45K+ miles of travel in my Model S over the last 4+ years, 85% of my charging has been of the Level 2, plug it in for the night and walk away, variety. 15% has been at Superchargers (I use an app than breaks down the exact usage, so that’s not just a guess.). I’ve taken at least one 2K+ mile road trip each year i…

If I switch to an EV, living in an individual house with a personnal garage, I would only use fast charging less than 10 times a year, while on trip to vacations. Otherwise, slow night charging would be perfectly ok.