The math equation gets even more crazy! Tesla’s track mode reveals that they do have temperature sensors in the tires, so you could theoretically apply some sort of scaler. But realistically it’s probably just based on cold tire pressure when you just begin driving at slow speeds, as it wouldn’t take all that many…

ASS only allows activation on private roads (i.e. grocery store parking lots, your own backyard, etc), and has a max of like 5 mph. Thus why it’s more lenient on the attention monitoring.

According to NHTSA data that tracked crashes while Level 2 autonomous driving systems were active between July 2021 and May of 2022, Tesla happens to have the highest number of crashes by a vast margin. Teslas reported 183 more crashes than second place Honda, and 263 more than third place Subaru in that same time…

You’re in a very very small minority then. I recently drove an EV from Florida to New Hampshire in one 27 hours sprint, and the amount of stopping felt like it was on par with travel in a gas car. Most of the time the car would already be charged ready to move on before we even left the rest area building after…

Definitely didn’t sound like he was trying to telling you to do anything. He was just pointing out that if you can charge at home, it actually saves time over a gas car, because every morning you wake up with a full tank.

My technique has been to put in a butt connector and then solder into the middle of the connector, then heat shrink over it, also in a loom, zip tied to something so it it’s flopping around. I’ve got dozens or more in my rally car project and they’ve held up so far.

Was the “third generation” 2021 Model S not good enough of a generation from the first and second? I’m fairly certain that a 2012 and 2024 share no body panels, interior pieces, or drivetrain components.

Dodge Charger/Challenger Hellcat “Last Call” editions

That’s what I do now. Back in 2018, tried for a month or two to sell my Fiat 500 on the private market. eBay, Facebook Marketplace, etc, only scammy bites. Finally on the day I needed it gone, I went to CarMax. It was the easiest large transaction I ever made, though it was probably a thousand or more less than what I…

The average American could absolutely get by with 200 as a max. Only if you do really long road trips does it make sense to have the target of 300 or higher.

FSD currently works in closed course situations. I’ve got it on my 2018 Model 3 and it drives into my office park’s private parking lot, and perhaps coincidentally right up to where my normal parking spot is, so I can just click my parking spot on a parking map that pops up.

there are many listed for under $20,000 with less than 100,000 miles on the odometer

Most of it isn’t. Tesla is a publicly traded company and ~80% of the company is owned by shareholders, possibly even including you, if you or your retirement account owns share of the S&P 500. Tesla is far from the only mainstream company you probably are purposely or unaware you are a customer of that donates to…

RE: Musk. Is that actually legal?

Agreed. I noticed last weekend that 6 of the 10 articles on jalopnik’s /latest feed were all Tesla. Currently it’s 4 of the 10 on latest. If I recall even the daily news roundup post, the first 3 gears were also all Tesla. If they don’t want Tesla to be such a big deal, they sure spent a lot of effort giving them hype.

It’s definitely possible to track tire wear, though lots of math involved. As a tire wears, its diameter decreases ever so slightly meaning it has to spin more to cover the same distance. Taking into account gear ratio, engine RPM, and wheel rotations, I’m sure it could be calculated, though the decreasing grip maybe…

Indeed the lead image showing a “quadrotor” is a very misleading image to show. It’s probably more similar to a drone like the AeroVironment T-20 though even larger. The T-20 pictured below  is 9 feet long with an 86 mph top speed. To be 20 feet long, that’s the size of a pickup truck.

Just picked one close to my house, first one I picked, you can see the fire suppression nozzles all over the ceiling

Gas cars are notorious for catching ablaze, about 17 per hour in the US. But the only way you’re going to get everyone to get a fire extinguisher is if it’s mandated safety equipment. But then you have a potentially false sense of security if you don’t know how to use it properly or hurt yourself more trying to put it…

The motors in the electric pickup kick out around 600 hp, which is enough to get the massive truck from zero to 60 mph in a claimed 3.9 seconds. So this race should be pretty close, right?