So, I know this is a car site and all but, Who the fuck needs a car with 500 hp? Why is something like this available from the factory, for sale to normal idiots who have enough money to buy one but nothing else that says they’re capable of handling a car with this much power?

They don’t think it actually makes the air cleaner. There are a couple of justifications. One is the belief that humans are not a factor in climate change (if they’re even willing to admit such a thing exists), and so by extension don’t see car emissions as a problem or negative factor that needs to be addressed.

The…

Or even “hey, we have a new propulsion method that is quieter, faster, requires much less maintenance, and you can “fill up” at home every night”

Regardless of which side of the “political aisle” you sit on, it is wild to me that there is a large group of people who are simply unwilling to accept anything that could improve the environment.

I’m sure there are some asshole sales/general managers who would tell the police he was complicit in the theft.

I’ve adjusted by just not reading full articles. It’s driven down the amount of times per day I check on any of these sites, because I’m sick of them deciding what I wanted to do when I came here to begin with. I’d imagine their analytics data has a hilarious cliff right around the time they implemented that...

Doesn’t help that the only advertising they’ve ever done was not to sell cars but to sell shareholders on giving their CEO a $55b payday.

Tip for if you are getting auto-redirected to The Root all the time again: it appears that if you scroll down too close to the end of the page, that is what triggers it. So instead of reading the line in the middle of your screen, keep that line at the bottom of the screen.

The proof is in the results. Tesla’s many many cameras could no detect a moving train directly in front of it and almost drove a person right into it. Even a crawling infant would know not to crawl right into a large, loud, fast-moving object.

I’d rather pay $80k for a car with the appropriate redundancies than $40k for a car that can only LARP as self-driving.

Tesla has already admitted they need Lidar to ever achieve anything resembling FSD;

I’m dumbfounded by the idea that every non-dumbass on the planet knows that camera-only is a going-to-fail precept, except apparently those who work and design Teslas. How can it be that only 2 firing neurons can nonetheless deduce that glare, road grime, darkness, and water droplets can confound a camera system, but…

Who said that removing lidar and radar from the car was a bad idea when tesla did it?

unexplained fires are a matter for the courts

lol you’re quoting a nonsense article. No legitimate source is reporting the Model H. 

They’re a known Tesla shill around here.

Becareful.  Soon, the GOP will make it illegal to take someone to the polls.

Quite right.  I’m still doing what I can to convince others of his evil.  My GFs daughter was not going to vote for Biden, but she’ll vote for Harris, even if I have to drive her to the polls myself.

None of the features you mentioned (except for maybe the voltage) are unique in any way and are technologies that have been around for a decade or more. The steer-by-wire is not the first, but is apparently the first without a mechanical fail-safe. So the Cybertruck IS the best at deleting practical engineering and…

Trump says what he thinks will work in the moment. He has no values or beliefs. If he finds himself in front of a crowd full of Hindus he’ll declare that his Trump Steaks are vegetables. You can’t lie if you live in a world without truth.