Your analogy with cruise control happens all of the time and is a non issue. People set the cruise to 70 on the freeway and exit. They are on a surface road and press the resume button and guess what, the car accelerates back up to 70. They have to PAY ATTENTION and stop it from doing something that is actively…

Your analogy is false. For this to be equivalent, the manufacture would have to tell you that after voluntarily pushing some button, the steering wheel MAY come lose so you should be ready to correct if it does. Next, you would have already driven this road before and know exactly at which point it comes lose and have…

I drove 1500 miles on autopilot this week. I did it with my hands resting on the steering wheel. Believe it or not, keeping my hands on the wheel is the most comfortable place for them because it’s right freaking there in front of my within easy reach and I’ve been conditioned to hold onto it over 30 years of driving.

Actual roads like the other multi millions of miles they have driven successfully on?

Nobody freaking lives in Canada (comparatively). Normalize your numbers by population and urban density and come back to us. No other country has as many highly populated, tightly packed cities like Chicago, LA, New York, etc. as we do.

This! I have a Model X with auto pilot. For those of you who have never driven a Tesla before, let me tell you how it goes:

Great timing for your post. I’m in Argentina on business and saw one of these out of the corner of my eye today and had no idea what it was...and now I know!

“Even if Tesla boosters hate to admit it, the automaker’s about to face stiff competition from the rest of the industry with equally impressive electric cars. “

Except your foiled when they hit summon on their phone or key fob and it pulls out from between the vans and they hop in and take off.

They also resist hydroplaning very well because of the narrow width.

No, compare his glowing praise of a BMW i3 with the SAME if not worse “flaw” of a difficult to access battery cutoff with his acting like the Model 3 access makes its a death trap on wheels. This kind of inconsistency makes him full of BS.

That guy is a joke. We’ve had EVs now for a while. What percentage of accident require cutting power to the battery? How do access compare to other cars? I had an BMW i3 which Munro swooned over with the SAME emergency issues...I don’t think there is ANY way to open the frunk of an i3 from the outside to get to the…

So, if you had a company you’d be totally cool with “employees leaking company trade secrets and confidential information, partnering with competitors, or constantly exuding negativity, etc.,”?

This is news because no one else in any other type of car has ever hit a stationary vehicle on the side of the road. Ever. Got it. Damn you Tesla!!!

Still love my Model X.

I’ve had two EVs - BMW i3 and Tesla Model X. I charge both at home normally but when I plan a trip, I have to use public charging infrastructure. With the Tesla, charging works. Every. Time. With the BMW, I have to roll the dice and about 75% of the time, I come up craps. What network is the charger (Chargepoint,…

Chillax. A twitter poll isn’t binding.

You forgot the charging network. That is critical and no one else has one. That alone is why people will buy Tesla over other options.

And, I’m sure they LOVE Tesla and would have no reason to lie or exaggerate the truth. I’m mean, they’ve demonstrated how honest they are already by keeping the NDA they signed...

Still meaningless unless you know the number and types of all tests performed.

Maybe but unless you know the number an types of QA tests other manufactures conduct, we can’t make a comparison. Maybe Tesla is going over their cars with a fine tooth comb because they sell to a bunch of rich snobs that will complain about the slightest imperfection and Toyota’s idea of an end quality test is does…