Cars rarely explode their battery cells all over the place either. And I’ve picked up plenty of cars that DID catch fire from a fuel release after a wreck (I drove wreckers in Corvallis during grad school). One of my co-workers was called out to one where both occupants did not escape, and were burned up in the…

This is only on Jalop bc it was about a Tesla crash, and Torch (and about every other “author” here) loves to shit on Tesla at any chance they can.  I am actually really surprised the headline wasn’t something like “Elon Musk got high once and now Teslas are setting people’s beds on fire!”  Oh wait, that is basically…

bUt MaRiJuAnA dOeSn’T hUrT pEoPlE!!!!

Oh, I think Tesla gets pilloried around here for selling good enough. Also GM has been making cars for how long? 

Yeah it’s not like they built an EV back in 1997 or anything, now I’m just going to have a big sip of coffee while I Google the EV-1.

Yeah, but if you paint those calipers (or better yet drums) red, you will get much better performance.

Bellbottoms.

Better than the alternative.

Big wheels look better.

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…

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

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

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.