Hyperloop gives its passengers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to die due to cabin depressurization at sea level.

While 300+mph is awesome, for 75% of the world the holy grain-type milestone is 500km/h. It’s hard to believe that they are “quitting” less then 10km/h away from that mark.

So we are NOT eliminating some races then?

I am sorry if I missed it in the article, but how does your analysis account for refunds/credits issued to the riders due to driver misconduct, etc? If that represents a statistically significant amount, it would, at least in part, account for the variance between the public take rate and your calculation. I doubt you…

In fact, it would shield the roadway from direct sunlight and rainfall, boosting the durability. The underside of the panel could have build-in LEDs, doubling as streetlights. The maintenance could be counducted by lifting a penal section, with no/much smaller traffic disruption. You are tapping into two…

You don’t remember the great car trials of Nuremberg? Who could forget the controversy of serial number 0189-2447G Mercedes which, despite being implicated in Eastern Front atrocities was sentenced to 20 years of open air storage instead of scrap yard over the objections of Soviet delegation due to being lauded as…

Where did you get your anthropology degree from?

I personally think there are many reasons to be excited about Tesla but “anonymous company employee describes upcoming unreleased product in vague favorable terms” is not one of them.

Oh, how I wish that’s what it reminded me of....

Von Richthofen eddition.

Counterpoint: Does manual transmission really appeal to the younger generations?

You know what no one REALLY needs? A Miata. Fun little grossly impractical cars. Can’t wait for a 1,200 word Jalopnik screed mocking it.

The P85D was never all that quick and only gets slower with age...

Let me say this another way just so you understand what the premise of your post really is:

Because for every $10-20K over MSRP sale they wring out of some ‘Vette guy, they will turn off 20 potential first-time buyers; the young professionals for whom $60K might be doable stretch, or typical European luxury/performance buyer who is intrigued enough to for the first time ever cross-shop a Chevy with AMG GTR…

Listen here punks, the engine was in the front when I was finger-banging Suzie Johnson behind the malt shop while wearing my varsity jacket and so by God that’s were it belongs forever. It’s this kind of un-American bullshit that drives so many of them all uppity.

To echo some other comments, why would I get this over more powerful, lighter, range-ier and A LOT cheaper Zero? HD is not the Tesla of motorcycles, they don’t get the same goodwill or leeway on price that Tesla uses to have.

Other then almost every phase of production process being different?

One operator moving thousands of tons thousands of miles: tiny, tiny (if any) savings per mile-ton.

When you are moving 4,000 tons of freight with one vehicle, the savings of one operator’s pay VS potential decrease in situational awareness, taken against the value of cargo is immaterial.