I also didn’t mean to imply *you* hoard knowledge. Just sometimes, engineers in general (especially younger ones) seem to think there is job security in being the only one that knows how to do something and they are reluctant to share. The reality is that engineers that share are more valuable than ones that don’t.

Race car overheats on shake down run. I’m sure that has NEVER happened before. OMG TESLA SUCKS!!!!

On the flip side, don’t “hoard” your knowledge thinking it makes you more valuable.  I’m a manager and have to deal with this kind of thing all the time.  Trust me, your a much more valuable engineer if your spreading your knowledge around to others lifting the team as a whole.  

If you sat in it, then you saw how cool the windshield is.

I had to pay $5k non refundable to Mini to custom order my wife’s car and it took 3.5 months. See, no different from other manufacturers but the rule is that here on Jalopnik, we only hate on Tesla.

Amen.  HD has been circling the toilet long before Trump camp along.  They are a company that screwed up and failed to change with the times and now its catching up to them.

Do they have 20 min from the time the attempt is scrubbed to restart? What if you’re almost to the top? I’m assuming they allow them to get back down the course first. Also, it sounds like they have a 90kWh battery...like my Tesla. They must be pushing >120kW if they can charge it in less than 20 min given you have to…

I think they are close to selling 250k cars because people are worried the fed rebate will run out before they get their M3 but I know the early ones didn’t have AP so I was being conservative.

This was a stupid device and I’m glad its been banned because it makes Tesla and Tesla owners look bad. That said, I question this:

Care to explain why I should believe anything you say when you write this

Wrong. That would be the most complex because you have to eliminate every single false positive that would be generated by every other non moving object using a very low resolution sonar input. The detection distance needed to stop the car at speed would be to great and slamming on the breaks due to an over pass or a…

Sorry but 5!= a lot. How many thousands of Teslas with AP are there? 100k? We don’t have an epidemic here and all the test did was prove that people still have to pay attention. The same result would have happened in any other car where a person was not paying attention (texting, changing radio stations, yelling at…

Exactly. People never die or crash into things with non-computerized wifi enabled cars.

And yet their cars have some of the highest safety ratings in the industry.

I wonder how they had the suspension set? I tried to pause it but couldn’t really tell. Most people comment on how the X is just a big, low slung minivan-ish thing but they have adjustable air suspension with a range of 6 or so inches (very low, low, standard, high, very high). Mine is set to low all of the time. For…

It’s all about the data. 20 extra stopping feet is valid data. Dig deep. It may well be an issue. Saying the rear seat feels harder isn’t valid. Saying your ass-simulator 5000 seat tester measures x on the M3 and the average measurement for other cars in its class is y would be valid data but they didn’t do that. The…

Interesting but I hate how they combine subjective reasons for not recommending it with objective data. 150+ foot stopping distance. That is objective data. Tesla will review their tests and if they are valid, make a change to the car or if they are invalid, explain why. I suspect they are invalid because CR admitted…

But the company has added enough options to the car to have a version that starts at $78,000, or about $16,000 more than a base Model S.

The problem is still lazy reporting. They stop at “Tesla with AP crashes” and don’t drill down into whether or not the AP system failed or if some other cause was to blame. They don’t provide context or comparisons to other vehicles. The coverage is biased from how the reporter *thinks* the system should work instead…

This is stupid and the people that made it and the ones that use it should be shot...BUT...didn’t we just have an article yesterday about how evil Tesla doesn’t care if you pay attention while AP is in use? Why yes we did. Hmmm. So, which is it? They don’t care or they nag you so much to hold the wheel some dipshit…