If you’re trying to autocross without touching the middle left (in this case) pedal, the next driver in line is going to be waiting a LONG time for her turn. I’d think your ankles can handle a 60s run.

The laws I’ve seen are usually worded something like “...should be secured in a rear seat, if available.”

It’s got more than one seat, so I don’t see why not.

Agreed. Most do.

But when’s the last time you were brake limited on friction brakes alone? Outside of overheating them, which shouldn’t be an issue in autocross, that never happens in a modern vehicle. You’re always traction limited. So any extra braking torque from regen isn’t needed.

I can’t say I’ve ever really tried to calculate it myself, but I’ve never thought that an autocross event burned more than 50 miles worth of fuel. The impact on a tank from doing an event is barely noticeable. 50 miles seems pretty reasonable to me. What is making you think the Tesla should use so much more energy in…

“don’t start with a full battery, because you lose the benefit of regenerative braking if the battery is full.”

Yeah, exactly. Who in the world ever thought a Tesla wouldn’t do well in autocross? The concern (from those that might have expressed concern) has always been sustained hard driving. Autocross would obviously not be a problem.

This whole concept seems so poorly timed to me. It would have made more sense back in the 1990s. What even is a “local number” anymore? Phone numbers stopped being tied to locations decades ago, when mobile phones took over and the old land lines disappeared. I haven’t had a phone number that “matched” the place I…

“If you’re a huge car enthusiast, chances are you’re not keen on the whole idea of giving up your control as a driver.”

Biggest news here: An article that mentions their SCCI engine and doesn’t use the words “holy grail” anywhere. Amazing!

Probably poor word choice on my part. I meant “comfort” but said “ergonomics”. Too many office managers using them as if they meant the same thing have warped my own use of the word.

Agreed 100%. Function over form here. The glasses were not designed to hang on a shirt. The leg opens up and they fall. Plus you scratch them up on everything. The glasses WERE designed to grip your head without falling off. So flip them to the back of your head when they aren’t needed, and they still work the same…

My experience exactly.
On top of that, check out the guy in the gif. How about those ergonomics? Sure, there are people that wear things on their heads and swing things around in their hands all day. But when a better posture can be used to do the same job, who’s going to choose that? I can design a car now spending…

Which problem?

Two data points. I would give this car a hard look, competing with the previous generation Cayman, if it had a proper transmission. With an automatic I’m just not interested.

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Learning teen slang back when YOU were a teen wasn’t worthwhile, and if you avoided it then you’re no worse off now. Learning teen slang now, when you aren’t a teen, can only be even less worthwhile.

I guess I really don’t understand the complaint. You can see the engine. It just requires some tools to get down to it first. Tools that you’re going to have there in your hands anyway, because you’re going in there to work on it. Right? Why would you want to see the engine if not to work on it in some way? If your…

So you’re saying that the action they’re taking, as described in the article, isn’t their primary motivation for collecting the data, right? I find that believable. And I’m really interested in your answer to my rather-obvious followup question: What do you think IS the primary motivation for collecting tons of…

I doubt the insurance company cares whether you’re a passenger. They’ll look at whatever data is easy to get that shows a correlation. Because their goal isn’t to find root causes; it’s to find predictors. If they can see that the group that shows phone use in motion costs them 20% more, they’re going to charge that…