Then you report that you don’t have enough data to issue a recommendation and leave it at that.

Wut?

I’m sure this is a statistic-related math thing I don’t understand, but I’m not sure I buy downgrading a company based on “predicted reliability.” Just because other companies have had problems in the past means that Porche is predicted to have problems in the future? As if they haven’t learned anything from those…

By answering the question that was asked of him, and doing so in a reasonable manner?

In the past, many people would talk about how some legacy car company like Ford, GM, Toyota or VW will eventually buy Tesla.

Are we not going to discuss this:

I wouldn’t read too much into an offhand comment made by a famously mercurial and unfiltered CEO. Besides, Elon saying that he’d “have a conversation” with someone who wanted to merge with his company is kind of an obvious truth.

As a mechanical engineer, it never ceases to amaze me what we are able to engineer together. This is one of the most metal things I’ve ever seen. 

Dude, it was a lambo.

Or, people should be able to do what they want in a free society.

“This is all, of course, to keep the factories running so GM’s motive isn’t exactly altruistic but vaccinating early and often is good.”

“I don’t know the intricacies of labor law in South Korea, but if I were GM I would just accede to the demands, GM makes billions of dollars a year, who really cares.”

That Corolla in the background is like

How is a slideshow necessary for this?

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!!!!

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

Bellbottoms.

Better than the alternative.