Or on the flip side, they’re trying to sell as much as possible after the 100 year production delay the demand far outstrips supply so they want every unit possible to be a sale, not scrapped for crash testing.

No-one has ever ‘got out of trouble’ by accelerating.

Cost cutting to make a vehicle less expensive for consumers I guess is commendable, but cost cutting to increase profit margins rarely works out well for consumers.

The entire Cybertruck just seems like a tall stack of bad ideas with almond syrup drizzled all over it. I’m all for rethinking what a pickup truck is - but this thing is (poor) form over function to the nth degree: A bed you cannot access from the side, unintuitive 4 wheel steering, body panels that will take fingers…

In their defense, they advertised reduced long-term corrosion, they said nothing about short-term corrosion.

Yeah.. given the short distances that are typically involved, I think a slower impact speed is the best we can hope for. A kid will survive a slight bump.

They are all horrid. Porsche came to (or stayed in) their senses. Does make you wonder what mystery brew of drugs the designers were on at the time.

Avoiding kids while backing up is honestly the core reason I keep my EAB on. Backing into a car or pole will ruin my day and maybe someone else’s. Backing into a kid (especially in an SUV) is a completely different thing. Even the best behaved kids with the most attentive parents are able to find a way to run behind a…

Where are those generic motors and battery swaps?

Now lets be fair!

But don’t you think these are classic Tesla / Musk moves / logical fallacies? What I mean is scenarios in which they assume something hasn’t been done before because everyone else is an idiot, instead of considering that other very sophisticated auto manufacturers who literally spend every waking moment thinking about…

“Problems solved!! For us. Not for the customers... just more problems for them. But that’s THEIR problem not OUR problem!!

HELPS TO REDUCE

To the 26% of Tesla owners that would not buy another one, let me just say, go fuck yourself. Are you in the audience? Go fuck yourself.

Geez... To save a few extra pennies on gas in acar that already burned very little gas to begin with.

Car nerd kills a few minutes on a Friday afternoon reading a thought experiment article by a car nerd. Well done one and all.

Had one of those in high school. Loved it, beat the piss out of it. Ran for almost 300k miles before it blew a head gasket; would have cost more to fix it than it was worth, so it was donated. 

That’s bad UX dev, not over-engineering.

The infamous timing set from the Audi 4.2 V8....why?

Many cars have them, but the execution varies. I think the handles with a physical button do it best, since that has tangible feedback, but my Subaru’s handles work really well as a touch lock/unlock. Idk why, but I have all sorts of issues with my wife’s VW while she never has a problem making it work.