Same reason why cruise systems let you set the speed to above the speed limit (even if it has maps that tell it what’s the given limit on a road, and it’s strictly illegal in many jurisdictions, including California). It is expected behavior to break the law and the car following expected may be safer than someone…

The way you sound to a microphone is different from how you sound to yourself just singing or talking. It’s much closer to how other people perceive you sound.

If this is a way to cheap out on motors, then it sucks. If this is still using regular motors and trying to reduce the wear, or if it’s an anti-annoying kid feature, that is moreunderstandable. But it should be toggleable and a choice by the owner.

Yep, that is the core issue. The issue isn’t that they can’t be fully recycled, but rather it costs more than you get in raw material value. But we have existing ways to address this sort of: a core charge.

These old batteries are torn apart and sold on eBay regularly. Works great for DIY home energy storage. I would gladly take some if it was provided for free and they can't figure how to dispose, but they still have commercial value, so are sold for good money.

Answer is pretty simple, they don’t even have enough parts to make the profitable models, they certainly won’t bother to focus on a cheaper model at this point, given presumably it’ll require more volume, volume that they can’t really deliver at the moment (it was a miracle that they got the volume they got last year,…

If you look at the Cybertruck design, it seems they are going for a continuous surface from the hood to the windshield. Doing the conventional design would create a lip, which they are probably trying to avoid.

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…

Blindly looking at “near misses” (which in the article you are referencing is defined as satellites passing within 1 km of each other) is a very misleading when the actual relevant metric is a probability of a collision (which is kept track of by the satellite industry in a meticulous manner). Counting simply “near…

You are talking about something completely different. This isn’t talking about internet access to the poor in highly populated areas. There are far better tech for that (including cell coverage). No one ever claimed satellite internet will be the solution to that (Elon was very clear highly populated areas are not…

Yeah, I don’t know where people get the idea of cellular internet being cheaper, especially for rural coverage. To add internet coverage in the middle of nowhere, all the hardware it takes is a $500 receiver with LEO satellite. To add cell coverage it takes considerably more than that, especially given data speeds and…

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…