No, let’s get rid of Uber and Lyft and all other app-based companies using “contractor” loopholes to avoid employment regulations.

Cool. Any takers?

Not everyone lives in a house with a charger, although I imagine anyone who can afford an EV in Bergholz, OH, can also afford a house.

I feel for the person with the open trunk in the last photo.

This assumes that insurance companies would only apply such a rate increase to Teslas with this design. Most likely they won’t increase insurance until a few years down the road, once real-world repair costs start becoming an issue. Also, likely as not, they will simply raise everyone’s insurance rather than target…

I thought police departments were all drowning in armored vehicles and whatnot? Use those resources to kettle and arrest as many as possible on a few occasions. Put down spike strips in all four directions.

They won’t think that’s fun. Although maybe it will peel off enough people that their takeovers won’t make sense any longer.

Apparently you can. About 45% of the voting population of this country thinks so, at least.

The weird and unpleasant transmission in the Smart Roadster. With a six-speed manual, this would have been one of the most amazing cars ever made.

I agree with you until the last sentence - these people went to pick up the ICE rental they had ordered, to drive around to look at colleges. They were given an electric with a largely empty battery, from a brand with an irresponsibly unintuitive and dysfunctional interface (I know Tesla are not the only ones, but…

I’d still say it’s more intuitive than a button... either way, these kinds of idiotic designs should be illegal, whether on Corvettes, Teslas, or Delahayes.

I think he was trying to distinguish crossovers and off-roaders - cars weren’t even part of the discussion.

Push start without keyless start and entry is absolutely silly.

Yes, having options for shifting is useless and bad. You should be able to operate your car without looking, and there should be one, standard way of using most functions.

I was just kidding, don’t worry.

I would love a spartan interior if it is durable (I haven’t heard anything negative about Teslas in this department; quality issues seem to mostly be exterior) and well laid out (and without touch screens) (FAIL).

Can’t watch that, but the fact that someone made a seven-minute video showing how to shift in a Tesla says all we need to know.

That sounds absolutely atrocious. Horrible. Is that just to ensure you get used to the car getting it right, so that when it gets it wrong you will go full steam ahead into an obstacle?

Best thing I have read in Jalopnik in years. Thanks. Soon it will be available in camouflage, I bet.

You two should be fine, but it’s scary for the rest of us.