1st Gear:. Boy you really have a hate on for Musk - “regret”. I don’t care for the man on a personality level but give him credit when due. By the way, that idea is not original to him. It’s the way Henry Ford ran Ford for years until “experts” decided that they had a better way.

So the recall was just a formality and that it was already fixed through a software patch? Not like my Toyota Rav4 hybid gas tank where I have to take it into service because it’s incorrectly measuring the gas in it thereby not getting a full tank of gas.

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Great article and this pretty well lines up with how I perceived Jalopnik looks at Tesla crashes. I’m a new Tesla owner (waiting on delivery of a model 3) and I genuinely do not look forward to being lumped in the same category as Tesla stans. Seriously made me consider not buying it. They are damn good cars (fit and…

For the wreck that happened on April 18, the fact that nobody was in the driver’s seat strongly suggests that the Tesla involved was operating in one of Tesla’s semi-autonomous modes.

Clicks. You write about it because people will read about it.

Well It could say. Musk is building a brand new type of transportation. That takes time to develop. Think of the boring machines. De tunnel lining. The actual transit system. The AI that’s controlling it. But no that’s not news that sells. Instead complain about it still being Tesla’s driven through a tunnel. Elon…

I actually know some things about this type of thing.

To be honest, I’m happy they don’t care about the optics.

They’re rapidly building and failing in order to learn faster.
They went from several rockets *not able to stand on their own* to having one that filled/emptied a bunch of times, and static fired 4 times. HUGE progress imo.

Waiting because it doesn’t jive…

The thing to understand is, this isn’t a version of the Falcon 9 or anything else. It’s a brand new rocket, using different materials - and moreover, one that they’re failure testing through repeated iterations. They’re deliberately pushing it to failure, to see where/how it failed, and then the future ones will be…

Watching people hate its looks is going to be one of the most fun things about it.

I like and admire Musk and I wouldn’t dare try to defend this behavior. I hope he’s A) ashamed of himself B) learns some humility from this and C) pays the award in good faith.

And the trolls in the thread (not going to ungrey them by responding) now say “we know all this, we get it, it’s nothing new” when they literally have been disputing and arguing about the facts up until a microsecond ago and they clearly don’t get it.

Yeah, I'm sorry, Porsche, but having the "turbo" designation on an electric car is just flat out false advertising and stupid, to boot. Turbo is not a trim level...it says the car involved has a turbo... Why not call it the taycan flat six? Or taycan turbine engine car..yes, you called a bunch of your finest cars…

Great David vs Goliath story, except it isn’t clear which is which. Tesla now sells more cars than Porsche. Porsche has been around a long time and makes vast amounts of money selling cars. Tesla, not so much. But Tesla is the Goliath of EV production while Porsche is the startup.

I am as far from a Tesla apologist as you will find. As a car enthusiast, I enjoy keeping up to date with the latest trends and subscribe to a few automobile publications. Through the years, I have come across a few articles written Edward Niedermeyer and have all had a very negative slant toward electric cars,…

If this guy ran a column about a Tesla death watch why would I think he would write the book in a fair manner.

Edward Niedermeyer Is the quack that has made a career about attacking Tesla Motors and anything Tesla. I remember his hit piece about Electrek connection with Tesla (see link below). I am surprised that Jalopnik would promote this quacks book.

Guys seem to get enraged when a woman is publicly recognized for an accomplishment. You can set your watch to it.

It is wind, hydro AND solar powered: