If you’re someone who sets it to 68 but then is like, you know what, let’s set it to 67, no wait, 69, no wait 68. You can still do that, it’s just a quick swipe left or right in a permanent place on the bottom edge of the screen. You can do it with voice controls if you’re really against touching a digital button…

At $61,590 we can almost compare it against a base trim Model S AWD at $68,490, which has a 3.1 second 0-60 which is much closer in size. Though the S does still weigh a lot less it seems, somehow.

That would be a better argument if it was old school with digital hot/cold dials, but it’s actually just a thermostat where you set the temperature and probably leave it the same all year. If you have a Nest thermostat at home, you probably don’t touch that daily, weekly, or maybe even monthly either. The heated seats…

I’ve lived in New England going on 4 decades, and my 2018 Model 3 is the first daily driver with heated seats in my whole immediate family. My wife’s first with heated seats was her 2023 Model Y. It was do-able before and especially still do-able without in a modern EV now since you can run the cabin heating on a…

I recently bought a helmet with the Comms already built in, I guess that’s part of the trick. Stilo brand, and it’s got noise cancelling ear cups built into the padding. There’s just a female audio jack molded into the side of the helmet where you plug your gear in. Personally I use wired but really any wireless comms…

If you recall I used the term “relatively upscale” and not “extreme luxury”. We’re talking about a $35k car and how it could be reduced to <$30k, we’re not talking about a $150k car and reducing it to <$30k. For $35k, I think they did an excellent job with making the material choices feel more upscale than other cars…

Overall it seems pretty great and a big step forward for Stellantis

I dislike the premice of the stalk removal, but I’m totally fine with the dashboard buttons removal. Realistically 95% of the buttons you press on a regular basis are still there on the steering wheel and door panel (and on my vintage on the stalks). The glass roof is definitely premium, I’ve had plenty of sunroof…

I used to drive 18k/yr but pandemic had a permanent effect on my work location situation. Even if I still drove that much, I would still be miffed at the fact that they’re billing it at ~25 MPG and not at the proper EPA-rated MPGe! Why should an EV have to pay 2x+ what say a Prius has to pay?

Current interior materials are actually relatively upscale despite the minimalistic appearance. Entire door panel is alcantara, dashboard is soft-touch, steering wheel is leather wrapped, seats are like a plushy leather couch. Only the top face of the center console around the cup holders, the wood paneling, and the…

They can definitely be both. Before Teslas were ubitquitous as they are now, they got all sorts of gawkers at the local car meets. Even at the EV shows now, Tesla owners still go around and look at the dozen(s) of other models that show up.

They do indeed have the disclaimer when you opt-in to the Autopilot features. And while it wasn’t always the case, nowadays when an emergency vehicle is detected (flashing lights), the car pops up with some sort of “emergency vehicle detected” message and slows the car down, unless you press the accelerator to…

Sadly many states already have the EV registration tax. Even in my purple state of New Hampshire, we have a $100/yr EV tax. And it’s absurdly high too, not just even with what a comparable gas car would pay. I did the math, and at average miles they’re taxing an EV as if it got 25.7 MPG. Since I am a hybrid-employee…

A banger of a morning roundup, Owen.

That’s basically Waymo present day anyway, and they’re getting away with it. Technically they still have a steering wheel, but fare passengers are not allowed to sit in the driver’s seat and definitely not allowed to touch the steering wheel. You sit in the back seat and basically they have Tesla’s center screen but…

I get the point though but really the same could be said about humans. If you have any death with technology, the technology gets blamed, and in a part rightly so. I guess my opinion is that as long as it isn’t worse than a human then it’s an acceptable risk. Five years ago I couldn’t believe people were actually…

From some quick Googling, Waymo has 2,500 people and 700 vehicles (3.5:1 ratio, but of course at least half of the employees are not teleoperators, they’re developers, management, etc). Unsure if they’ve specifically stated their ratio but I see some Reddit threads claiming it is 10 cars per 1 teleoperator.

1st gear:

The Cybertruck this article is about is not a Cyberbeast, which is one of my main points. The launch price of the Cybertruck AWD was $100k. It sold for $85k on Bring-A-Trailer. That’s 25%, not 38% depreciation.

So your argument is that the $1 billion per mile, which is the standard for subway tunnels, is less expensive than The Boring Company’s claimed $10 million per mile? TBC is theoretically a 99% savings, which is why Las Vegas is so crazy about it.