…and then drive a GM Supercruise equipped vehicle in heavy stop and go traffic under anything other than perfect conditions and remind me again how useful it is.

I use autopilot *every day*, and when it’s used as intended, it’s fine. Great even, after the recent update a few weeks ago. Can it be better? Of course, and…

I used to do wheelies across them just to fuck with the numbers a bit. I’m sure nobody noticed or cared, but that never mattered to me.

Much like my social media posts!

Thanks! Interestingly my commute isn’t really all that long it’s just that the stop and go brings all the rage to the yard…

That’s three times what I need to ruin someone’s sense of self worth in the sack.

They’d be the most forgettable 3 seconds of her day or her money back.

wow I read the alternate name as “fuxateen” and my initial thought was “Yeah that’ll make a person feel better”.

Welp.

Jesus christ is she the greek economy or a mustang leaving cars and coffee because either way I would wreck her.

There are a few things I’d change on it, but nothing major. Overall I just sum up my review with “worth the wait”, and note that my doc is expecting to take me off of my blood pressure meds after a followup re-test, which I attribute mostly to autopilot finally, finally making me not stress in traffic.

Well, as someone who does, I guess it makes me feel kinda normal…

Friday on the way to Tahoe I got pulled over in my new Model 3 ostensibly because I don’t have plates, but everyone in California knows that plates aren’t issued at the time of purchase and have to go through the whole waiting game from the DMV. On the other hand I was also 10 over the limit and have illegal tint, so…

That’s fair. I’m invested in exactly three companies directly and that’s only because I work for one of them and the other two I know enough about that I was willing to roll the dice.

If it happens, it happens. Can’t plan for everything. If and when I decide to sell the car some years down the road, if I can’t afford what I want without my car being worth X, it means I can’t afford the car I want and I will need to do something else.

That’s great if you want to buy a Silverado. Not so useful when buying a Tesla Model 3 since the very few used ones go for the same price as the new ones.

The trick with the stock market is just throw into index funds. Individual stocks are for people with a higher risk tolerance than me.

Yup, that’s a thing. I’ve had mine for about six weeks and sat in the back for the first time today for about 3 minutes while the car was parked. It wasn’t *bad* but it’s not a great back seat, either. In the end, though, I don’t care because I won’t be riding back there :)

For a variety of reasons, in my case. Most important among them is that there is not a single car that age that met the requirements that I laid down for my purchase. Less important but still significant was that I wanted to buy myself something nice because I very rarely reward myself with anything substantial.

Lastly…

“Also, if you’ve ever been in a non X Tesla, packaging the battery below the passenger compartment results in very limited headroom”

In the Roadster and the S it can be an issue. Not so much in the 3.

“would it not be wiser to have kept that money in an index fund for a few years and withdrawn that to buy a used <$10k car?”

In theory yes, but it depends on what sort of car a person is in the market for. I wanted to reward myself with something nice and new for some personal achievements over the last few years, and…

Fair point.

“I would say the level of risk (i.e. loss) is higher than statistically improbable.”

In isolation, sure. But if I don’t actually sell in a panic or anything, I should ride through the recovery just fine. Emergency fund is well-stocked as well, even though I hate having it sitting there earning so little… sigh.