The R2 is plausibly a step in the make it smaller direction. ‘Classic design’ on a brand new mfr that barely anyone’s heard of? Not exactly the words I’d choose.

We have a neighbor up at our cottage in MI that’s in mgmt of a Caddy dealership. This convo is probably 15 years old but there was some particular semi fringe model that most dealers didn’t want to deal with. He absolutely laid out the welcome mat on service and specifically catered to those owners. Earned dozens of…

and a 10 yr old battery.  Replaceable (theoretically anyway) but that’s gonna add some significant cost to the TCO going foward.

Spoken like a bean counter!    Very true.   It’s just the cost continuing to rise while reliability goes down that’s the rub.

Vast majority of cars it’s very very true. Air resistance roughly squares with speed. That doesn’t get better with speed. 40-50 is generally the sweet spot.

you have to admire the courage it takes to fly on his rockets...given how petty and cheap he is at literally everything

Things today don’t last like they used to. Plastic parts instead of metal to save a few bucks. And proprietary electronics that a raspberrypi could easy run.

You realize that going 80 mph for an hour uses more gas than going 40 for 2 hours....right?

That was the initial plan but the orbiter mission was cancelled.

Yeah, this is literally training your customers to not patronize your restaurant during, checks notes, meal times.

Planes would have a significantly less problem with unsprung weight in the wheels too I’d think? (no idea just making that assumption since planes aren’t going offroading or even city streeting in daily use)

Unobtanium is right there next to WouldntBuyItanium

‘All’ of them which was I believe literally ‘seven’.

tbf these stupid prices are a significant part of why they still have 300+ supply available. Who the ever loving hell is paying SIX FIGURES for a pickup or even 70K for a funsy Bronco that’s not that useful?

I would back off and have them agree to pay for any damages caused by the dog.

I can make a case that you keep one or maybe two loaners for such usage. And suck it up if you get hit with 3 service dogs in a day. A quick vacuum might not be enough if the next person is highly allergic etc.

So the CyberTruck is good off road.

One thing that I find interesting is charge port placement. The Nose seems odd, though I know a lot of designs use it.

The floor is Magna.

just about cost. entirely possible to set up a sonar blanket and actively monitor huge areas in detail. But that’s dozens if not hundreds of other drones.