LEDs “should” last the lifetime of the vehicle. In reality, you will probably be replacing them because the lenses are too fogged from UV exposure.

Over $1000?? You just spurned me on to look into this. Looks like a ‘22 Audi S8 has a “Matrix LED w/ Laser beam” that’s about $566 OEM per. That’s crazy, though I’d doubt you’d see any significant wear difference between it being off vs on.
Admittedly, my newest vehicle is a 2009, which still uses halogens.

Haven’t we known for a long time that a 2wd pickup truck is terrible in the snow regardless of lift or tire?  

The car is trying to act as human as possible to blend in with other drivers. Being predictable is safer than following the rules.

If often absolutely is, especially in Philly, NYC, Chicago, LA, etc.

What does a chip shortage have to do with running a website? I love the trio but nothing in that message seems to point to a real reason they had to shut down. The ongoing financial losses seem the more likely factor

the problem is that most accident avoidance maneuvers ARE ILLEGAL by the letter of the law. if a collision happens in front of my car on a highway and I stop, flip on my emergencies, and rush out to help the people involved in the crash technically I have broken the law because I stopped in a no stopping zone.…

Exactly, the problem with this Socialist way of thinking is usually everyone ends up with the lowest common denominator, inhibits competition, and eventually leads to the collapse of innovation.

Just think, Musk would still be producing EV’s with borrowed Lotus chassis and off the shelf components instead of creating…

I don’t know how much it helps. It saves on the development costs but it also puts a major risk on the industry - imagine some fundamental design problem that instead of being in 100k cars is in 1000k cars and requires a mass recall. That’s what dependence on Takata created.

Now that I know this person’s license plate number, I’m going to steal their identity. Which is what I presume everyone who puts their thumb over a plate in a Craigslist ad thinks is going to happen. 

Eh, this sounds like Delta asked the question that should be asked, which is: “Does what we know now, and the situation we’re in now, warrant continuing with a policy that’s from a year prior (give or take) and when we didn’t have the protections we have in place now?”

Exactly, do you want to keep mining coal and drilling for oil, or work toward getting the world swapped over to EVs and home solar grids. As the saying goes “dont let best get in the way of better”

1st Gear. Its like there’s no free energy out there. Phucking physics.

Once again the age old lesson bites someone in the ass: No title? No cash transfers hands.

The average price for a new car today is $45.000. The Model 3 is the hottest ticket in a hot town, $60k doesn’t seem that wild.

I think these are likely batteries they had in storage for replacements when needed and now they want to get rid of them so they can just have one sku.

Riveting, Pulitzer caliber writing from Jalopnik these days. Articles about counterweights like they are magical wizardry, bloggers copying other bloggers so they can take a trip to “Click City.”  This is what Jalopnik has become. Its funny how you can tell a good Jalopnik blogger..they dont work for Jalopnik anymore…

Fuck Musk, but the blatant are grinding that Jalopnik tends to do against Tesla is annoying, and honestly, we wouldn’t have shit for EVs were it not for the Model S and X absolutely wrecking the mid-luxury marketshare for years, and the Model 3 (and Y) selling literally faster than Tesla can make them.

Sounds like maybe they had some manufacturing problems with a batch (es) of batteries and tracked them down for replacement. I’m not sure I see enough here to even write about.