People crashing a brand new high performance car definitely is more common than people think. Happens because that is the time when you are most likely to want to show it off or experience its limits (while at the same time you are most unfamiliar with it, which why it’s so dangerous).

Model Y is similar to the Model 3, except they added rear door releases in the door pockets. Some people added those themselves in the Model 3 (there is a pull cord inside the door from factory which is used in the factory to unlatch the door before the release buttons are installed/activated).

Yeah, I have no doubt a lot of people would agree with her takes, but struck me that it seems her mind was a lot more made up on Tesla already than the article above presented. Wouldn’t have had that impression without doing my own digging.

Apparently there is a bit more to the story. There are some deleted tweets that show the feud between the two is a bit more long running than suggested above and that she has had preexisting views that AP should be forced by NHTSA to be disabled (but no word on other similar L2 systems).

It’s more like a fear that you have a person that is against (or for) a certain specific company, not that it is someone that the entire industry dislikes. Kind of like Pai being from Verizon and getting into the FCC. The other internet giants who would be damaged by later rules didn’t like that, but Verizon certainly…

Except he’s not responding to the quote about human attention spans, but rather to the tweet of the people she had been following, many of them long running anti-Tesla skeptics. Of course, just because you are following such people, doesn’t mean you can’t be objective and make up your own mind.

I had the same thought, I read through the article expecting at least some detail on how long it took and what stops it made, but there was nothing. FYI for those who didn’t want to bother having to dig for it, they did the trip May 6 to June 12, 2018, with the major stops being all 30 MLB stadiums (plus 3 stops at…

Well I’m speaking in context to the OP, who is saying Tesla won’t survive long term (AKA other makes will kill Tesla off as they start entering the EV space). So this isn’t some strawman argument, it’s something I have heard a billion times in the EV space (which I have been for a long time, as you know). But my point…

The thing is even if they take EV market share it doesn’t matter, as it’s not a zero sum game. To “kill off” Tesla they have to be stealing from Tesla’s sales, but that’s not what’s happening. Tesla is still growing at rapid pace even though its market share percentage is dropping. This is because when the traditional…

That only matters if there is low demand for their cars, which is not the case so far. Right now they are stretched thin in terms of production capacity, so having an old platform hardly matters. There are other automakers that keep platforms around for a long time, with only modest updates (which Tesla have done even…

I wouldn’t say necessarily too ugly, just that it’s too expensive for what it is, likely thanks to the CFRP construction. They also bet wrong on wide appeal for EVs as city cars, when they are more appealing as commuters (for which a slightly larger car is more fit). Cities simply didn’t have the charging…

Yep, mine doesn’t either. Very few solar installations, especially ones installed years ago, have battery backup, even though it’s getting more popular. When the power company cuts off power, the solar panels are turned off (this is to avoid injecting power into the grid, which may electrocute personnel working on the…

Yeah, I see Ego a lot too. It helps they have an entire lineup so you can use the same batteries and chargers for the virtually all your powered tools. That way you always can easily swap instead of waiting for a charge.

NHTSA’s previous investigation pretty said as much. It’s not reasonable to expect AP to reliably react to ANY stopped vehicles that are partially in the lane.

Well any cruise control, ACC, and lane keeping system will also crash into partial lane objects and are not tasked with either automatically changing lanes or stopping for them, so if this is considered “unacceptable” I see a lot of cars needing to be recalled.

Yep, same thought, it was adding functionally that wasn’t there, so not seeing how this can be classified as a safety defect. If this is classified as a safety defect, it’ll probably lead to all L2 cars needing to be L3, as there are many other scenarios where a L2 car may crash into a stationary object on the side of…

That study has nothing to do with drowsy driving, only that drivers may pay less attention when using AP. Again, I’m talking about evidence for the claim that ADAS significantly increases the amount of crashes from drowsy driving (accounting for those that would have driven drowsy anyways even without the system). Or…

NHTSA says in 2019 there were 697 deaths related to drowsy driving:

Yep, that’s the thing people miss. You have to subtract from the accidents the system have prevented from people that were going to drive distracted or drowsy anyways, with the ones where people did that solely because of the system and had a crash. Only if the latter is higher is the system a net negative.

You mean two of the same connector coming out of the same cabinet being able to charge at the same time (not one after another)? Which network are you talking about that allows this? EA apparently doesn’t at least for the 150kW ones (350kW might).