That’s what they do in some cases, just let it burn off.

Yeah, this sounds like exactly like the response by industry to so many policies, as if “not ready” is a valid excuse to continue to do nothing. Most of the time, when the time comes they figure something out, or if it really doesn’t have any alternatives, CA will delay the measure. However, some pressure needs to be…

It’s easy to handwave and say there are other options from other brands, but they either don’t have enough production to take advantage of pent up demand, or they don’t qualify for the tax credits. Tesla has both the production capacity and they also have room in their margins to play around with pricing. This is…

Abstract Ocean already sells a set of add-on buttons that is based on the OBD port. They work pretty much instantly and can be stuck anywhere. I wonder why they didn’t opt to go with a similar solution in this case, rather than through an app, which would have a delay.

You seem to be reacting to Uber hijacking the term ride sharing (or ride hailing), but in context to the article, I am just pointing out substituting in “taxi service” does not make sense given taxi services do not necessarily qualify for car pool lanes (even if you consider Uber to be a taxi service). I should also…

“As a driver with FSD Beta CURRENTLY, you’re wrong. I can activate FSD Beta on a single lane dirt road with absolutely no lines that’s completely gravel and doesn’t even have lane markers and is a private driveway. I know, I just did it. It’s a mile long. I was also impressed it worked.”

Carpool generally means community efforts (riding together with family, co-workers, neighbors, or via a community connection program). Rideshare refers to commercial services like Uberpool, Lyft Shared, or vanpool services.

Others mentioned subpoenas. An EDR reader can also be used to access the EDR in the car. However the latter requires the vehicle owner's permission.

FSD doesn’t activate on closed access roads like that bridge anyways, so I highly doubt that it was active. Autopilot could have been active, but it doesn’t brake to a stop like that.

It would have done well in the Volt era (when PHEVs were much more competitive), but given even GM abandoned the Volt, it’s too little too late. Now you can get EVs at practically the same price that has the same range all electric.

Others already pointed out the news, but even without that, there have been zero cases proven where Tesla have lied about the car having FSD or AP active or not (there are many cases where Tesla have said it was active). The Tesla EDR can be examined by third parties, so it would be relatively trivial to prove if…

Yeah, a lot of this has to do with the tax credit (the numbers given are not an accident). Most EV buyers aren’t stupid, they know the tax credit is coming, so it will take some enticing to take delivery now instead of wait less than a month and get the credit.

Didn’t Piers Morgan do something similar? Yeah, as an American I don’t really get it and don’t really see anything so serious she did that she deserves that level of hate.

Totally agreed. When I saw the $30k price, I thought ok, that probably is still acceptable. But with the real price at $70k+, no way people even bother.

A lot are on summer tires (and even the all seasons are designed for efficiency) and people get overconfident because they have AWD. But this is true of a lot of people with AWD cars.

Even though I would like AM in my car, which doesn’t have it, (there are some stations my parents might occasionally listen to), I think the claims are a bit dubious on how many people still tune into their car’s AM/FM radio, even in an emergency. Most people I know either listen to internet radio or they have their…

The Model X stumbled on the same rear area shape as the X6 (the slope on the back), but it was for aerodynamics (drag coefficient of 0.25), while for X6 it was a styling/market decision to have a “coupe” SUV (drag coefficient 0.34, not a whole lot better than the boxier 0.35-0.36 of the X5). The two are very different…

I’m not apologizing, just saying it is unlikely that the accident was by a car running FSD Beta.

Just hours before, a pileup happened that didn’t involve a Tesla. I travel there regularly and accidents happen there regularly. I would put it down as coincident given relative to the whole Tesla fleet, relatively few people have the FSD option and even less people have signed up for the Beta option.

That’s a bad analogy because Apple owns their own shops. Instead GM car dealers are independent, so they can work on all sorts of cars if they wanted to. They may even carry different brands, especially used vehicles (have you seen Apple stores sell used HP laptops?).