No, the manufacturers are run by shortsighted people who chase quarterly profits. The government didn’t have much at all to do with it.

Based on that image, in another 2 generations there will be nothing left of the distinctive 911 shape.  It’ll be a fully melted jellybean with as much styling cues from the 1996 Ford Taurus as the 1970 911.

My initial reaction: just what the world needs, another jackass trying to go +15mph over the flow of traffic on the Merritt Pkwy on the weekends.

Yeah this is total bullshit. Most likely a *round* mylar balloon, or something similar.

I have no idea what News Nation is, but maybe they are being smart and putting “Possible” in front of every story so they don’t get sued for making up shit like Fox.

I don’t mind minimalist as luxury, but it must be done correctly. Personally, I could care less for the gaudy bling-bling of high end Mercedes interiors: chrome vent rings and Las Vegas lighting do not make a car luxury.

AFAIK the Subaru Eyesight system is the only one (other than Tesla) that relies on cameras only.

What’s the Tesla equivalent of the ‘Camry Dent’, though?

I’m still not convinced Tesla==Douche any more than for a BMW, Mustang, F250, etc.

I wouldn’t be surprised if many different ADAS / automated cruise control systems would miss a motorcyclist. These are never, ever meant to be used in eyes-down fashion.

I don’t believe a law-abiding robotaxi will make the driving experience worse — idiots racing on the highway and giant pickups and SUVs make things actively worse. 

I think there is also some hard-to-quantify loss of ‘luxury-branding’ for Tesla. It was an obvious luxury brand when it came out with the initial couple cars, but (I think) this is no longer the case for multiple reasons, like stated by many others:

It would create construction jobs, but every dollar of land acquisition would likely go into a rich person’s pocket. (for example, Nancy Pelosi)

I’m thinking about making a time-lapse-style video of an upcoming cross country drive (from behind a car windshield). I’d guess this 360-camera wouldn’t be a great idea *inside* a car, so does anyone have any other suggestions on how to do this. Ideally it would record HD(?) for ~12 hrs, and then I’d offload at…

But in reality we’re so far off from L4/L5 autonomy that I don’t see the point of talking about it publicly

I guess I’m just a pessimist, but ... with real estate prices where they are, and the world full of NIMBYs, I doubt that much can be done to improve public transit in most of the US. Sure you can add some buses, but anything that requires fixed infrastructure like a subway or train is going to cost many billions per…

We recently reported how some employees didn’t find out they were laid off until trying to use their key cards at Tesla facilities.

I’m not talking about the US, I’m talking about USSR (and modern Russia) and China under Mao. Religion was definitely not the problem in those two countries. Stalin was responsible for ~7million, and Mao is >5x higher than that (admittedly a bunch of that was starvation due to idiotic government decisions rather…

+1. I still remember people saying back in ~2016 that the “Model S is the Camry of Palo Alto”. Now the Model Y is not too much more expensive than a loaded Corolla!

The whole “anti-religion / religion is evil / religion breeds ignorance” concept was a lot easer to rationalize back in the 19th century when just about everyone was religious. Now humanity (unfortunately) has a couple of major examples of avowed atheist tyrants that show that large groups (countries) of humans are…