You are assuming SF chose them instead of them choosing SF. If you read the actual article SF isn’t exactly welcoming them, only that SF doesn’t have jurisdiction to ban them (that’s up to CA which had been relatively lax in approving their operations).

The locks may disengage, but you don’t want the latches to open. That increases the chances of the passengers being thrown out in a crash.

This was the driver, not the passenger, so there’s no excuse.

Electronic door releases is fairly standard for modern frameless doors that drop down to open, it’s not a special Tesla design.

I'm just commenting because it misleading suggests there is no manual release. Perhaps they could have designed it in a mode obvious way (but it’s already very obvious, most people grab that by default when they first get the car, the door button actually people have a harder time finding, to the point they had to add…

“I, for one, really enjoy the mental image of firefighters dunking a burning car being craned into a tank of water. It has a sort of carnival game ring to it.”

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.