You can’t buy a new Tesla on the site that gave the stat, which is a major variable (considering that Tesla has a huge majority of EV marketshare). In fact, that may be enough to throw out the results if you want to make a generalization about EVs. So even if that played a factor, I doubt it was reflected in the stat…

Or more accurately, the car will treat itself as a “human,” as all of its moves are trained by human driving. Even humans don’t tend to make decisions necessarily that will consider an altruistic  move, but would rather be an instinctive reaction, which usually will try to preserve self first. It’ll make the most…

Yeah, that’s the immediate thing I see. Taxing unrealized gains may have weird effects on the market, like for example forced selling of stocks. Haven’t looked into it in detail, but the short bit I heard in local news says economic experts say it’s a bad idea and haven’t worked in other countries.

Wow, you have some serious issues if you need to resort to personal attacks to make a point. I'm just reporting the number shown in my lifetime meter which includes highway usage obviously. Vampire losses is around 1 mile per day, which even with my relatively low amount of driving (I drive only around 5000 miles a…

Well, most people don’t even know what the technical SAE definition of L2, L3/L4/L5 means (which is what CA DMV is basing their standards on), including many authors here (I’ve seen glaring mistakes in articles here, for example that nap rating article). The reality is the line between end-to-end L2 and a L3+ system…

Elon says the hardware is capable, but obviously at the moment the software is not. FSD Beta is still testing L2 software (City Streets, which is a L2 feature, in a more generic sense, it’s known as end-to-end L2) and as such, it’s not required to have trained drivers testing it. Eventually they may release L3/L4/L5…

Tesla doesn’t need trained drivers because they aren’t testing autonomous vehicles with FSD Beta, according to DMV filings:

California passed “right to charge” laws to address this:

Yeah, my lifetime average on the SR+ is 220Wh/mi or about 4.5 miles per kWh and I’m not driving particularly efficiently. It’s actually not that hard to get in mixed driving. Sure, that doesn’t include AC to DC conversion losses and other idle losses, but if comparing supercharger miles that doesn’t matter (as that’s…

Putting aside the Teslas out testing are not an autonomous vehicles (according to DMV filings they are only L2, so semi-autonomous), FYI companies are already testing autonomous vehicles unmarked without any public notice. If you are in California like me you would spot a lot of them.

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…