Cars should not be operated with eyes closed. Period.

Why are you calling me retarded? Did I call you any names? Why do you have to go all negative. We’re just having a conversation...

LOL. Yeah, like this is simple/intuitive:

Concrete is porous, and on any given day, it’ll have a certain amount of moisture in it. (That’s why you see rust stains on older concrete, particularly in snowy areas that use salts for deicing. Water is getting through the concrete and making the steel rebar rust.) If its exposed to high heat, particularly if that…

Automatic rain-sensing wipers:

Base model price is $35k before incentives, not after. From Tesla’s press-kit...

Dude. Get over the windshield wiper thing, you’re totally misinformed:

How is it different from the Saturn Ion, the Toyota Prius or Toyota Echo?

Your attitude simply enables it to be the failing shitshow that it is. You’re looking at it extremely superficially, which is how this mismanagement and corruption has been allowed to take place. You don’t even realize that the “reasonable price” of your fare doesn’t even cover the cost of the system, and you’re also…

Not a New Yorker by any stretch, but I am familiar with the MTA system and mass transit systems in other major cities around the world (SF, Boston, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Istanbul, others).

Just FYI, for what its worth, addressing only your question about early build issues: We own a 2013 Model S P85. Its an early build, Feb of 2013, one of the first 6500 cars off the line. We bought it CPO through Tesla with 17,000 miles on it. It came with a 4 year bumper to bumper warranty.

Most EVs have liquid cooled motors and batteries. The cooling is probably more critical for the battery than the motor, but once you’re installing the cooling system for the battery, you might as well include the motor, the power electronics and whatever else.

This.

Sorry, for me that’s still a 747. Flying remote and rural routes, Dash 8 means this:

I literally just explained to you the conditions and the road type I was driving on and you’re still completely unwilling to give me the benefit of the doubt.

So, when you’re driving in snowy conditions, how often do you stop and get out of your car to see if your taillights are covered?

Here’s what we’re going to be in:

Why would past environmental damages show up in an ad campaign? That’s like talking about cancer screenings in a cigarette ad, or divorce lawyers buying diamond wedding bands at Jerod’s...

Having grown up in the SF Bay Area within view sight of the refineries in Richmond, I can say with complete confidence that the environment in California has suffered greatly from their presence, and that’s not even extraction. There have been large spills into the bay (you can still get oily muck from a lot of the…

Honestly, its the salt that saves yer bacon there. Come out west to a state that doesn’t use salt (and only minimally mag chloride) and you’ll find patches of roadway in town that stay icy almost all winter.