Or it might increase it, as your children and your aged elders can get their own cars now.

It’s not about running out of battery charge level; it’s the overheating that causes the maximum battery output to be greatly reduced if you go too fast.

The races are supposedly only 60 km long. I’d expect racing strategy to be similar to longer distance horse racing where the drivers will drive gently until the last lap and go all out and hope they don’t throttle the battery.

It has a system that’s essentially SH-AWD so it should normally be at a 90:10 torque split front:back, with the ability to go 30:70 and torque vectoring between the rear wheels depending on throttle, steering angle and road conditions.

I agree, the car screwed up seconds into the video with a poor left turn and kept on driving horribly there after. It barely made a single good left turn in the whole trip and screwed up multiple easy right turns.

But now by saving the MKC line in Kentucky, there’s a possibility that Louisville gets both the extra Escape production and the MKC line which does add jobs.

But the best minivans money can buy only cost $40K.

Nobody’s ever tested a driverless car, even the Google Car, with a system well in advanced to Tesla, has a human dedicated to taking over whenever it has problems, and for the 2015 testing period, it required human intervention hundreds of times due to software and hardware issues and just poor driving and humans…

Like the two deaths that could have been prevented if Tesla saw the videos of their drivers doing stupid things and instituted proper safeguards; rather than having Musk do the digital equivalent of high-fiving them on their stupid actions?

I’m not saying it excuses GM, just quantifying how rare it was, which along with some horrible GM beauracacy made it hard to identify at first.

Going by Wikipedia, GM recalled 30 million vehicles and paid compensation for 124 deaths. Assuming a conservative 50,000 miles travelled per vehicle, that’s a fatality rate of 1 in 12 billion miles.

Statistically, AutoPilot is far less safe than human drivers driving expensive, luxury cars. Estimates of fatality rates for that demographic are closer to 1 in a billion miles.

Your numbers are a bit off. A bit more than 35,000 deaths occured in all vehicles accidents (including motorcyclists and pedestrians).

You’ve described Honda’s eSH-AWD system found on the Acura RLX. The front has a 3.5L engine and electric motor, each rear wheel is driven by independent electric motors for low speed acceleration and torque vectoring. The NSX is basically the same thing but in reverse.

And in the last 4 years, oil demand has gone up.

willzyx was comparing space with a sedan, where the most popular models fit in between 175" to 190".

Minivans have a lot of space because of their shape but also because they’re some of the biggest vehicles on the road. Three row minivans are 200+ inches long, not everybody needs a vehicle that big.

Not FUD, just the truth from their own statistics.

Both have been a waste of money for Germany; even with 4X the capacity of nuclear solar generates barely half of the electricity that nuclear does with virtually none in the winter. Wind produces more but often not at times when its needed, putting stresses on the European grid. Combined with the expected shutdown of…

If it follows the practice of other military shootdowns of civilian airliners, then nothing much will happen. At most one day the Russians might pay a modest amount to the families of victims.