When comparing between states it’s misleading to only look at misdemeanor vs felony without looking at sentencing differences. In Texas, a Class B is has 2x the fine as a standard California misdemeanor, a Class C has twice the jail time and 4x that of the CA’s fine, while still having a lower bound below that of CA’s…

Right. The biggest complaints if you look online still remains things like panel gaps and paint quality, which typically is easily addressed after delivery (if car is not rejected). The things pointed out (roof falling off or steering wheel) are just one-offs.

I think both sides have blame. Union Pacific for laying off (although practically every company was doing so also during the pandemic, so not sure how much blame they should shoulder there), the city also for failing to do their part.

But that’s irrelevant to the tweet where you claim Musk was lying. In reference to the question he was asked (which was talking specifically about the FSD Beta trial), what he said appears to be true and this accident has nothing to do with what he was talking about.

Yep it warns you about a slow leak or in my case it would have been useful when my plugged leak developed into a bigger one (after being fine for a long while). I had a blowout in my previous car because of this. TPMS is something I’m glad modern cars have now, and I have no doubt if my previous car had it, I would…

One thing about an EV is you can adjust the heat lower and it’ll use less energy and you can get through a storm a lot longer. If you use heated seats instead, it’ll extend things even longer (and you don’t have to worry about killing your 12V battery). Using a 12V heated blanket is probably also a good idea.

The coast to coast promise was made in October 2016, targeting end of 2017.

Yeah, I rented a Focus once that had one of those transmissions. Overheated going up a hill that my old 90s Camry had no problem with. Had to wait for it to cool off before being able to park the car at that hill.

Well, you lucked out in picking the best model. The AWD ER model gets most of the performance in the lower end, and is faster than the GT in the higher end (due to strange and so far unresolved overheating/power limit issues). The ones who waited for the GT got the short end of the stick and it remains to be seen if…

That’s why I kind of roll my eyes when people claim Tesla doesn’t test their software enough, while traditional automakers are “fully tested”, when the reality is there is plenty of software used by automakers that run into issues when used in the real world (it just isn’t as widely reported). VW ran into similar…

Actually FSD Beta is a completely different code base than AP. Currently it handles only the city portion and it does a ton more than the old AP code base. It has to due to the fact it has to handle making turns (including unprotected lefts), respond to traffic signals/signs, going around double parked cars or…

Tesla never marketed AP as “sleep on your way to work” though.

He said FSD Beta, not AP. FSD Beta only launched in fall of 2021 and currently is still in limited beta (not everyone has access). This case was in 2019 on the regular AP system.

“Donald Slavik, a Colorado lawyer who has served as a consultant in automotive technology lawsuits, including many against Tesla, said he, too, is unaware of any previous felony charges being filed against a U.S. driver who was using partially automated driver technology involved in a fatal crash.”

And I don’t think the test regiment runs it as slow as 15mph. From what I can find, the range depletion part of the test is done using the WLTC Class 3b test cycle, and given it travels 23266 meters in 1800 seconds that is an average of 12.93 m/s or 29mph.

Maybe because it doesn’t? The changes in range is likely to do with other changes, in which the processor change only play a small part in. You will notice the other models also are affected at different percentages, which points to other changes being the cause.

Yep, this has been going on for a long time with Teslas and no sign of any negative effect on resale values. And due to long lead times, as you say, there are even well used Teslas selling for more money than new (which is insane).

I didn’t click through the slideshow, given like many I don’t want to support the slideshow format, but I’m not surprised that’s the case. As per my other comment, a lot of these concepts are more like “driving planes” meaning they still have all the hassles of a plane (pilot’s license, still need runways to…

A long running problem of these is a lot of these are “driving planes”, not “flying cars”. Basically many of the concepts are planes you can drive on the road, but to fly them you still need to takeoff/land at a runway and need a pilot’s license.

But the other idea is the vehicle has to be small enough that it can also drive on normal roads when there isn’t traffic and also fit in a normal sized garage or parking space. That’s the whole point of “flying cars”.