We’re living through an ergonomic Dark Age. Manufacturers are embracing usability worst practices and the press and public are lapping it up.

Manufacturers love cheap touch screens instead of expensive buttons. They can avoid commitment indefinitely by telling themselves everything can always be changed in software. Most manufacturers take no advantage of this, never actually issuing any significant changes, and abandoning development altogether after the…

Saying the rear seat feels harder isn’t valid.

Sudden full volume is worse than mere distraction. That is beyond threshold-of-pain, into permanent hearing damage territory. It renders that car completely unusable.

Finally... dude, if it grabs the broom, you don’t hold on to it

if I shelled out that much green, it better not have the same switchgear as

California has had its own air quality authority for half a century. Suddenly it’s an emergency.

Instead, they chose to burn more fuel, emit more CO₂ and contribute more to global warming. Good job California, you can lay in the bed you’ve made.

The cost of vehicles would sky rocket, manufacturers would struggle, and it would make things very difficult for not only American companies, but all manufacturers.

It certainly couldn’t make the Zonda interior any worse.

Her entire post - even the snarky part - is based on such a fundamental error I’m surprised it hasn’t been retracted, let alone corrected.

I think the people getting them are thinking the same thing. Almost every one I see is on a new car. They just look better, like pretty much every old plate design from every state.

No, it’s great. The white plates with Flashdance script look terrible on everything. California should make the black plates standard again.

I sort of agree. Blowing $200K to replace a nearly new car with an almost identical new car in order to add a splash of novelty to your hours of commuting seems like a misspent life.

I think sometimes the difference is entirely virtual. Corvettes were sold with a California Emissions option that made absolutely no difference to the physical car itself, right down to the CA emissions sticker that was present on every one made, with or without the option.

Everyone says this, but no one seems to know the details. Show me the “law.”

In the conference call, Musk sort of implied that the Model Y might be made in China at their next Gigafactory.

You’re playing word games.

The details matter. Maybe the chargers are in a detached garage currently powered by a 15A branch circuit, and he needs to run an underground feeder to a new subpanel under 100' of expensive hardscaping. Who knows.