No, it costs the NHTSA $1M per test. That’d be your tax money.

By the regulations that’s virtually impossible, I would think the question is whether or not it sufficiently passes regulations. I’d bet a substantial amount of money it’s been tested at least once, although it’s probably been tested more like a dozen times.

Where does it imply that? It says the NHTSA hasn’t tested it, but I see no implication Tesla haven’t tested it.

The crash test dummies are obscenely expensive because they’re very heavily instrumented. You have extremely high speed cameras from many, many angles that have to be adjusted to the specific vehicle. The facility itself is insanely expensive to build and maintain. You have high speed logging equipment that has to be…

No one is reading the article. Tesla has tested the truck, only the NHTSA hasn’t.

You do have to see these in person to appreciate them.

This is art now, these are going to be compared with something like a Pollock or Picasso in the future. Applying logical values to it no longer applies.

....they do. They do all of this. Manufacturers spend HUGE amounts of money crash testing their vehicles.

They do give them vehicles, but you’ve got limited test cells, limited people, and limited time.

Volumes are too low. Gotta play the numbers.

I’m a big Senna fan, but he was a very flawed person.

It was a different time. Watching it in-period, Senna was loved even before death, but people HATED Schuey when he was winning. Schumacher was ice cold, completely unrelatable.

Don’t get me wrong, Verstappen was being a little shit, I just think the idea that “championship caliber” drivers don’t do this is completely false. Hamilton definitely had these little shit moments over the course of his career, he’s matured now, which is what I’d expect someone to do over the course of their lives.

I think you have to compare people within the same sport. F1 is a very unique situation because the entirety of a team’s fate rests on the shoulders of the driver, and there are very large corporate interests involved. It’s a unique situation that’s very different from a Biles or Tatum.

I can find plenty of incidents with Hamilton doing something like this in a cursory google search. Alonso well...that’s even easier.

You’re talking about the top 0.1% most competitive athletes on the planet. You don’t become an insane winner without being something normal people can’t understand.

I’m old enough to have seen revered drivers, people like Senna and Schumacher, perform acts that would get you banned from the sport now. I agree this was whiny and petty, but it’s hardly unheard of from “championship caliber” drivers.

This is the correct answer

The want is....not strong.

The market is broken, and it’s the average person that’ll be left holding the bag....as always.