Certainly too fast for a sidewalk (though that is QUITE the sidewalk, and is probably meant for golf cars and whatnot) but the streets in my neighborhood are signed at 35mph. I do think that is faster than it should be, but that’s what the county did. Of course, the delivery drivers probably hit 50... 

Still far more complex and nowhere near as capable or rugged as an old Jeep. “Off road” in a CUV is a forest service track, not no road at all.

Exactly, it was the best way to test to destruction, and much faster than doing it with air.

LOL.

The thing that seems to be missed here is that manufacturers normally have NO IDEA whether a car will be tested by NHTSA or not. They can guess in the case of something like a Maybach or a Bugatti, but they can’t know. At any time, if NHTSA think they smell something fishy, they can just decide to test anything they…

I suspect the CyberTurd will do just fine in terms of protecting it’s passengers - so far Tesla is EXCELLENT at that, and I say that some one who hates the damned thing. But I also expect that it will get that performance the same way as every other large truck - YOUR car is it’s primary crumple zone.

If you are rich you don’t care about retirement and Medicare. And you are probably so diversified that you can actually take advantage of a market crash. And the reality is that if someone like Musk or Peter Thiel loses 90% of their money, they will still be rich to make King Midas blush. People simply do NOT…

That they will never, ever get into law. They have no hope of getting real control of either house of Congress, and without that, it aintgonnahappen no matter who is in the White House. Or who sits on the bench at the Supreme Court. Not that I think the strict constructionists on the Supreme Court would go along with…

How are you not the CEO of a car company?? This is brilliant!

You are on a roll today. Or maybe a pile of rolls. ROFL.

I have this nice bridge in Brooklyn I am selling shares in - anyone want one? 

Gross.

No doubt. My farthest coast was dumb luck. I lost power and had the dash light up like a Christmas Tree as I was going over Tukey’s bridge in Portland, ME, which is where I-295 enters the city. NOT a good place to break down. But I had enough speed and was at the right point to be able to coast to the next exit, which…

Of the top of my head, no. I drive probably 30 different cars a year, and they tend to blur together unless I really like them or really hate them, But I have been surprised by it on more than one occasion - usually higher horsepower cars, of course. My Mercedes will actually resume at lower speeds faster than I would…

The Comet testing was done with water in a water tank to figure out how the stress from the pressurization cycles worked (and they got some surprises). They didn’t pressurize the fuselage with air, they did it with more water. But they weren’t looking for air leaks in that test.

ROFL! That is pretty much the exception. But the mental image was fun.

They did it IN a water tank in the case of figuring out why Comets were falling out of the sky waay back in the day.

Zuck would kick his pasty fat ass. I’m no big fan of Zuckerberg, but he is far less of a stain on humanity than Musk. He mostly seems to keep his mouth shut about things that should not concern him, and is not a right-wingnut.

I completely agree, and that is why I am not that worried about it - all I can do is live my life as happily as I can arrange it, and I am reasonably happy as it stands. I expect to make about $2.5M over the next 10-12 years, and live off it the rest of my life. Since I am 12 years from “full retirement” at least as…

It’s a whole lot easier to siphon gas out of something than electrons... Nah, I would want a Jeep, and an older one at that. Even simpler, and a lot more capable than a Subaru.