We’ve been hearing about what the big automakers are GOING to do for years.  They haven’t done it.  VW doesn’t have a single car for sale using their new skateboard platform.  They don’t have the charging infrastructure in place.  I know they are big and experienced but I don’t see them going from zero (e-golf doesn’t…

All we have to go on is Trumps tweets...and the press release from GM:  

Thanks for the details. Can anyone add info about how they found him? Too much TV has me envisioning little handheld devices with green radar circles on them but I really have no idea. How did they triangulate this guy? Is the equipment that accurate to pinpoint the actual house?

I wonder how big Rivian has to get before they become Jalopniks new target?

Um, not necessarily. Read many of the other posts about how LIDAR has limited range, cost, and power issues. You have a limited number of engineers. Maybe those resources are better spent on the vision system instead of 2 half baked systems. Also, if you knew anything about Tesla systems you’d know they have many…

You said it yourself in the article:

Agreed. Instead of saying “he”, I should have said “they” referring to the army of talented engineers and other workers that make stuff happen.

I’ve owned mine in Portland and S.E. Idaho - places with plenty of rain and snow with no problems.

So, you wrote this entire article and didn’t discus the video of the Model 3 actually self driving. Perhaps you can point me to videos of other current production cars self driving with nothing more than a software change. Wait, there aren’t any?? Hmm. Maybe a car blog should spend more time talking about the actual…

Not only can you still order it, people have already taken delivery of the supposedly non existent $35k Model 3...but you won’t read about that on Jalopnik.  

I have an X and your wrong.

Wow.  I think this is the most positive thing I’ve seen about Tesla on Jalopnik.

Tesla Model X for you then. Seats up to 7 and with the super charger network, you are good to go...and at 2.8 sec 0-60, you can go very quickly :).

I always like to fill up the search history with all kinds of interesting names on rental cars before I return them :)

You are 1000% right on this and it’s amazing that so many people overlook it. Even if there were other equivalent cars (which there aren’t), none of them have the charging infrustructure which eliminates the single biggest drawback of an EV.  I’ve had an i3 and tried to use public charging networks and it sucked.  Now…

It’s not just Volvo.  I saw a commercial last night with Subaru advertising a similar system that flashed messages on the dash to stop texting etc.  

Don’t forget, Tesla pushes new features to cars, not just bug fixes.  This goes a long ways to prevent people from feeling like their car was just made obsolete by the next years model.

Call it whatever you want but with a 0-60 of 2.8 seconds that seats 7 - Who. The. Hell. Cares!

Except it’s not. I know because I own one.

Um, yes. Nothing wrong with that. If you don’t want to wait, buy the other 39k crossover ev with 230 miles range and global supercharging network etc....oh wait, their aren’t any.