Crazy uncle. Definitely crazy uncle.

It was more of a general comment. Something being what would be beta for the rest of the industry does not necessarily mean it will have issues. There’s no mention of the severity of the issues VW’s running into - are these run of the mill problems that would be expected to present significant issues to customers on a…

has a successful track record producing such cars

It would also change Tesla from a tech company to an industrial company and crater their share value before they could execute the transaction.

If they were actually reinvesting earnings, their assets would be growing. As of maybe a year ago, their (assets + cash - debts) was less than the amount of money originally invested through their various rounds of funding.

four of the largest U.S. states from California to Florida are not “distant.”

The LKA on the Pilot is actually the best I’ve encountered. Keeps you pretty much dead in the middle of the lane, gently nudges if your inputs go towards a line, but not anything close to preventing intentional movement.

Tesla already does this, but Volkswagen’s new army of software engineers has so far failed to establish a robust link between the car and the company’s cloud-based applications that it has been developing with Microsoft Corp.

Blue Screen of Death means something different when applied to a car, doesn’t it?

Worst feature on my wife’s Pilot. It’s so gradual and keeps you so far from the car in front of you that it’s very easy to not realize you’ve dropped 10 mph with a lane open next to you. Plus, I keep forgetting to look up how to change it over to non-adaptive cruise when I’m not driving it.

Depends on where you are. Connecticut’s positive test rate has dropped from ~40% at the peak to under 5% for the last week or so. NYC’s down from in the 60s to steadily under 5%.

Mine’s rusty, so I used a translator.

2nd:

You mean like getting one line running smoothly before adding a second and then building a tent in the parking lot to house the third?

It’s an entirely valid technique...so long as it’s done by someone who knows what they’re looking at. I’m pretty sure if the people that set up the walks wanted to they could game it to make everything look good for Musk.

Interesting, I’d only heard of gemba.

Neutral:

https://www.startribune.com/mpls-council-majority-backs-dismantling-police-department/571088302/?refresh=true

This is the look of a car that was ready to face its end.