Electric doors are a horrible idea.

This place has been written up in the news multiple times — I’d find it hard to believe anything there that costs ~$50+ is a better deal than you’d find on eBay.

Maybe a better headline:

Don’t forget the only thing you can trust Trump to do is lie.

Those leasing companies are sure getting BRUTALIZED by that $7500 of cash up front, right from the Federal government — aren’t they?

In the end this is just a strawman argument against technology that is in an early ‘alpha’ release covering a small fleet of vehicles (low 100's). We don’t know much about how this will impact congestion beyond a few academic congestion studies that are not based on any kind of existing technology.

There’s never going to be individuals sending personally-owned autonomous cars out with their personal liability attached. The vehicles will be fully insured by the manufacturer or some other automotive rental/taxi group.

I haven’t driving a tesla in a few years, but I’m pretty sure they still require the driver to continually observe the FSD system. A Level 3 system allows you to go fully eyes-off while it is engaged.

(I was talking *new* ... the types of cars that Audi actually sells.)

None of that is unique to Tesla — it’s just Level 2 autonomy (ADAS), which is available on just about everything. The one exception is the attention monitoring / car stop-in-lane feature, which is basically a shitty hack to mimic Level3.

You basically have to spend more than $60K to get any Audi with an engine that’s better than a ~270hp 2.0L I4.  That’s about as impressive as a 6-year-old Accord. Audi should have gone all-in on sporty hybrid drivetrains instead of EV’s.

New car prices are literally tracking with inflation. New car prices in inflation adjusted dollars are NOT HIGER AT ALL.

Exactly -- no one should *ever* be buying a car that costs the same as their yearly income -- unless they got like 10x their yearly income saved in the bank. 

How to fix Jaguar:

There are so many reviews praising the Elantra N, but there are also tons of comments criticizing the reliability and warranty coverage of Hyundais. I guess this is ‘right-priced’ given it’s performance, 2WD vs 4WD, interior, and reputation vs. Honda, Toyota, and VW.

I bet it’s likely politics more than anything — I’ve seen something like that happen on a much smaller scale at a university where some relatively high-up sysadmin convinced administration that he could deploy storage to tons of professor / research groups, and purchased a system without buy in from his internal…

Twitter really is hell, but it’s a hell I’m very much a part of. Could I leave and join something like Bluesky? Sure, but I’m not a fucking dork, so I think I’ll stay put.

I’d put the Ford Probe in the top-5 best looking cars Ford has made in the last ~50 years, along with the 2004 Ford GT. (It’s hard to put any Mustang on this list because they are so common as rental cars and worn-out beater vehicles.)

Yeah I see similar results — these are all priced at 1.5x the average car sale price in the US. They are basically luxury cars without the prestige brand or luxury trim, so no surprise they don’t sell.

So at least you are profiting from the sales of Stuff to these places! Hopefully it’s mainly science equipment.