Tesla never had its heart in the $35k Model 3 the same way BMW never had its heart in the $40k 3 Series, and Cadillac doesn’t really give a shit about selling any $33k CT4's...It’s the same game they’ve all been playing for decades.

Autopilot is not their ridiculous “FSD” and isn’t really any different from any other company’s driver-assist tech. So, no, it doesn’t make the cars uninsurable. And go sit in a car with cloth seats and one with well-made pleather seats and honestly tell me the cloth is better.

Honestly, this whole debate is dumb.

Said no one ever.

I’ve driven an Outback that yells at you constantly to pay attention, EVEN WHEN YOU ARE, if it’s not happy where your eyes are pointed. Annoying as heck. If you want me to pay attention to the road, fewer beeps and lights and vibrations please. 

Up till a couple of years ago I worked on the camera for this driver monitoring system. It’s clever but was frustrating because what it’s trying to do is engineer a solution to a particular flavor of human stupidity.

1st Gear: Buyers will vastly prefer Autopilot because of the exact reason CR doesn’t. They can ignore the road without being yelled at. Yes, it’s a good idea for Supercruise to monitor the driver, and yes, it’s probably safer. But people will prefer a system that lets them defeat the nannies and fall asleep while…

They ranked it higher solely because they felt it keeps track of the driver better but it’s ranked worse in both performance and far worse in ease of use. In the real world you can only use Super Cruise on specific supported highways and in places like New York the law forbids Super Cruise from being used entirely. GM…

It’s just wires.   Research the crap out of it to make sure you’ve hooked everything up per code, and you’re good.

Exactly. Just park the EV down the street and have a welder outlet installed. That nice new tesla down the road definitely isn’t yours

Because you’re not comfortable using both sides of your breaker box for something new instead of just one, that makes all these people liars?

I remember when doing your own home improvement was calling “being handy”.  When did that turn into “being a cultist”?

There are very few situations where 240v will kill you but you would have been fine if it was 120v. It’s the amperage that’s deadly and a 120v line has more than enough to put you in an early grave. If you have wired motors before then your skill level is WAY higher than needed to install an outlet, run a bit of…

I got 4 quotes to install my chargepoint flex, ranging from $900 for a sketchy no-permit type of guy, up to $2400 from a seemingly competent shop. This was with me supplying the flex unit, mind. It blew my mind, frankly - all indoors, no finished walls or ceilings on the wire run.

There’s also the “EV” upcharge: Get a quote for installing an EV charger in your garage. Then get a quote for a 50-amp dryer plug installed in the same spot: Sometimes the quote for the dryer plug is less than half the cost of the EV charger installation, even though it’s the same job.

Exactly. I’ve been an electrician for decades. The whole “you might have to modify the panel” is a bit dramatic, and in 99.9% of cases, simply not true. reality is that most will pull the panel cover, run a cable from the charger to panel, snap a 2 pole breaker in and land 3-4 wires. Not a job for a clueless beginner,…

I read the article, and your hate is palpable. Was that your intent?

Not trying to be argumentative, but isn’t that what the beta designation is about? Some consumers may (despite the disclaimers to the contrary) overestimate the safety and capabilities of the beta feature, but is that a valid reason to not deploy it? I mean, we don’t really think of agile development in automotive…

Does it not drive the car itself? It requires the human to pay attention and be prepared to take over should the need arise because it’s still a very infantile system.

It is FSD though. They’re saying that it’s still in beta and shit can go wrong so be sure to pay the fuck attention to it.