Agreed.

but a light tap that causes a dent can be pulled out and skim coated, while any damage to the Cybertruck will require panel replacement

Do you have a quotation for these words? Or do you just have a vague memory of one of 5,000 of Jalopnik’s negative articles on the topic?

Genuinely want to know where you saw Tesla themselves falsely advertise a product they have on sale. An article by a news outlet not associated with Tesla doesn’t count. Watching a YouTube video by someone not associated with Tesla doesn’t count.

Agreed!

I wonder if Basic Autopilot and Enhanced Autopilot will be restricted to controlled access roads as you said, and then Full Self-Driving Capability won’t. Since FSDC Beta for City Streets is specifically designed to work on urban and suburban roads. And/or it might be that the cabin camera is only used for FSD now and…

Mine updated in 2021 to have the eye tracking. I’ve heard there are detections for wheel weights now too. I guess people could just stop letting the car install updates, or maybe different tiers of software packages get different attention requirements (maybe the eye tracking is only on FSD but not on Basic for…

New videos or old videos? At least for the last 2.5ish years, mine has had eye tracking. Though it could be that only FSD Beta does the eye tracking and maybe “Basic Autopilot” (radar cruise control and lane keep) only uses the wheel sensor. I’ve seen that they do have a detection algorithm to check for steering wheel…

2nd Gear: Some Model 3s Lose $7,500 Consumer Credit

A spokesperson for NHTSA said the probe found Tesla’s means for keeping drivers engaged were “inadequate.”

It does have crumple zones, as evident in the lead photo of this article where it is crumpling. The curved bumper fascia is the first line of defense, then it looks like the fenders bend like a bow for frontal or overlap. It’s just foolish to jump to many conclusions before the test results are actually made public,…

While I’m not a fan of government overreach, I think the happy middle ground would indeed to be to require pickups to be registered as commercial vehicles. Either by business registration, maybe somebody sign up for an LLC, or just some higher registration tax rate

There is a significant difference between the capabilities of the two systems, and I think that itself is evidence. Mercedes’ system is the one that only works under 40 mph in stop-and-go highway traffic which is such a niche use it would be very hard to justify paying for it. Versus Tesla’s system which works on…

Darn it, another one of my infamous invention ideas that I thought of but didn’t have the time or resources to develop.

Right, somehow wedged shaped front end is now much worse than a shoulder level vertical wall?

In police body-camera footage obtained by The Washington Post, the shaken driver says he was “driving on cruise” and took his eyes off the road when he dropped his phone.

Let’s wait until we see the actual crash tests before jumping to any conclusions. Tesla is known for its safety and being at the leaderboard of crash tests, so to design a vehicle that would perform poorly on safety tests doesn’t really align.

Obviously less applicable for vehicles that have been updated and/or gone past a generation gap. Any US-spec Tesla Model 3 or Tesla Model Y that any rental car company has is still on the 1st gen and would be barely indistinguishable from a brand new 2023/2024 model aside from the model year and mileage.

He made the fart sound come out of the Cybertruck’s external speakers in his drag race video the other day

Supply and demand. If a consumer has X dollars to spend on a vehicle, but new vehicles have rising prices and/or availability of new vehicles goes down, then the price of used vehicles expands to fill in the gap. If the price of a new vehicle decreases and/or becomes more available, the price of used vehicles decrease…