I wouldn’t call it stupidity. It’s just a long-shot play for a short-term benefit. We criticize it because the risk is so high for such a trivial reward.

The repo rate doesn’t cash out your claim that people don’t know how loans work.

You’re getting pummeled by the misanthropic majority here, but you’re not wrong.

I agree that spotting exotics parked on the street during Car Week is too easy. Pretty much anywhere on the peninsula. Not just at a concourse, but down any old side street.

Downtown Carmel is wall-to-wall exotics on the big weekend.

Italy borders Germany

No. This is not a case of trucks expertly anticipating what the white car was going to do and attempting to go around it in a controlled fashion.

If different regions have different standards of driving competence, which any world traveler can confirm, then you should expect people from that region, on average, to reflect that standard. Accident rates vary hugely by region.

The car came to a complete stop in the middle of the road using its own brakes. It didn’t look like “something that was going to.” It was stationary. It was parked in the road before they got there, and the trucks failed to react until it was too late.

I’m sure they didn’t brake in time because they didn’t really perceive what was going on until it was too late. But technically they have to be able to stop for slow or stopped traffic ahead.

The noise is caused by the gear, but synchronized reverse gearboxes can use helical-cut gears in constant mesh instead of spur gears. This is why they are associated with being quiet.

Zardoz!

Rapists, thieves, con-men, etc. seek out the meek. Teach your kid to be fearful and you increase the chances he or she will be taken advantage of.

Whatever you think of the regulations, don’t pretend that forcing car companies to build products a certain way is actually doing their competitiveness a favor. That is not the purpose nor the effect of fuel economy rules.

Oh, and for California... They either need to have the same standards as the rest of the country (whatever standards those may be), or they can go bother the auto manufacturers to build special “California Edition” versions of their vehicles just for them.

Imagine if Autopilot was programmed to malfunction silently once per trip, at a random time, and owners knew this. Would they still claim it reduced their workload and fatigue then? No.

No.

It’s not just a disingenuous name, it’s a disingenuous idea. A half-baked steering system whose behavior you cannot anticipate or understand, which may give up or even silently screw up. In either case the driver is required to take over and assume all liability for Tesla’s bugs.

Steering affords almost no margin of error. There just isn’t time to guess whether or not Autopilot is going to do the right thing.

Tesla’s legal department likes to pretend that Autopilot is intended to be used under vigilant supervision by a driver ready to seize the controls the instant he suspects the system is not working properly.