Yeah, the grocery getter Model Y (most popular non-pickup in the US) can smoke a lot of performance compacts easily, even the ones that used to be considered top notch (like the STI).

It’s more of a “don’t buy or encourage EVs, we have something better around the corner, meanwhile buy one of our hybrids”.

It may be far easier to prove this charge than burglary depending at what stage they were caught in.

Those are test results, not real-world results. Is there anything that shows the loop has actually moved 4500 people in an hour?

Thanks for the research. I have looked up employment laws in the past due to previous discussions and from my impression it is totally legal to fire him for his wife’s occupation (as you say, it’s unlikely the employment contract had a provision that would have prevented that). What you point out makes much more sense…

Makes sense given that’s pretty much literally what they did in the original versions. The headlights and tail lights fit each other, and the front seats are the same with risers.

Yeah the Y was never a looker IMO. It looked like a bloated Model 3. At least this time they tried to make it look a bit different than the 3. But IMO, the refresh 3 looks a ton better than the Y refresh.

Citation needed.

Which is fine for a carnival ride at a convention center where the cars are extremely far apart, but for real life, that this is being advertised for, a few cars all stopping at the same station will backup into the tunnel and then you’re stuck.

This had been discussed already. A proper light rail would cost drastically more and take much more time to construct. It will also create an overcapacity in lower traffic days and is probably a poor fit for a convention based location (the trains can’t be used by others or be brought in as needed, whereas for this,…

Presumably the drivers are trained and the vehicle fleet size is predetermined to reduce chances of congestion, so there will be less chaos than at an airport loop.

Well if you compare walking one stop to the subway, it’s also doable and probably takes around the same time, but plenty of people would rather not.

If you look at a station, the cars pull to the side for loading/unloading, so a car to a different station can drive past. This is less practical with a conventional train system, but trivial for their design given it just uses cars.

You misremembered. What Apple refused to do is to add a back door for law enforcement to access encrypted locked phones, because that back door is rife for abuse and compromises phone security. But Apple provided literally gigabytes of the user’s data based on law enforcement requests:

Any privacy policy only applies to regular requests by third parties. The part that was cut out was this: “Tesla never sells or rents your data to third-party companies.” Where other car companies failed is they do sell your data to third-party companies (like what GM did).

How are you going to do that when the car is stolen and the plates swapped (as it is in this case also)?

“You think the For profit electric companies aren’t going to become like the Big oil of old at some point?”

But how much efficiency can that tech squeeze from already very efficient engines? The Prius 4th gen engine is 41% and that’s already very good. Say you squeeze out the theoretical 50% with a 6-stroke engine. That may give you 70 mpg in a hybrid, but so what? You can get similar with a PHEV and an EV easily beats that…

Not even close. There’s plenty of battery chemistries and types (lithium air, lithium metal, lithium sulfur) not yet explored if the goal is more energy density. The last couple of decades have been mostly focused on lithium-ion batteries with liquid electrolytes. But extreme energy density isn’t even the goal in the…

Probably trying to repeat the Plaidessy (A Honda Odyssey body on a Tesla Model S Plaid chassis):