That’s a huge stretch. He’s familiar with timeline controversies enough (“3 months maybe, 6 months definitely” has been a meme for a while, v11 was later than he indicated) so he knows better now than to confirm a specific date.

This stood out to me given none of the NHTSA reports indicated this (in fact NHTSA specifically warns not to use the data for comparative analysis given data reporting varies greatly among manufacturers):

That’s completely irrelevant. The point is if the car halts in traffic and the police knocks on the window (as happened here) someone is inside to respond. The same thing can’t be done in a Waymo or Cruise given no one is inside.

FSD Beta (and even if the beta label is removed) is an L2 system which requires am attentive driver. So it doesn’t have these problems, given the driver is always there to override.

SFMTA have already pushed for restrictions and did everything they can to stop the expanded deployment without safety drivers. Unfortunately it is CPUC that has the last say. CPUC has shown they don’t care. All the issues only affect SFMTA, SFPD, and SFFD and not any state agencies. Police have limited jurisdiction on…

She was in no immediate danger of death or serious injury. She didn’t even do the reasonable minimum to verify her suspicions nor did she attempt other means of escape. Shooting someone in the head on a hunch shouldn’t fly for self defense.

Good point about hope, it reminded me of the MV Sewol incident. There was a lot more coverage of that, no doubt because there was still hope of rescuing people trapped inside, given the size of the ship relative to the people it carried allowed viable air pockets to keep people alive for extended periods of time. The…

Objectively a Titanic tourist sub being lost in the depth of the oceans is a more interesting story because of its uniqueness and suspense from the limited oxygen supply. Unfortunately, refugee ships capsizing are fairly common occurrences, so while they still make headlines, it’s generally a far less interesting…

“Lines and longer waits seem inevitable, and it would be understandable that they’d be frustrated when forced to wait for a non-Tesla to finish charging.”

It doesn’t make sense because Jalopnik can’t resist finding an anti-Tesla slant to everything and put wording that doesn’t exist. The actual exception isn’t worded that way, instead it excludes car companies that never had franchised dealerships in the state before the law came into action.

It doesn’t make sense because Jalopnik can’t resist finding an anti-Tesla slant to everything and put wording that doesn’t exist. The actual exception isn’t worded that way, instead it excludes car companies that never had franchised dealerships in the state before the law came into action.

A fine theory except for the fact similar exceptions have been carved out in other states well before Musk’s turn to the “dark side”.

Even standards adopted by standards committees have some level of patent encumbrance, just that it is supposed to be RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory).

Tesla has irrevocably waived their rights to sue for ALL their patents long ago (the list includes the two design patents that cover the connector and inlet respectively). However it is subject to certain terms, which others have deemed as “poison pill”. Essentially any party that uses Tesla’s patents can’t sue anyone…

Yeah, people don’t seem to get that the resources are far better utilized improving NACS than sticking with CCS. GM themselves said they estimate saving $400M with this move vs investing in their own CCS network. Putting some money in to develop the supercharger network into something all EVs can use makes a lot of…

It IS the same connector. NACS delivers both AC and DC on the same connector and inlet. The EVSE or charger communicates with the car to deliver the appropriate thing. So that matches your idea of that was what you were asking.

This move is like adopting USB-C (Tesla NACS) instead of USB 3.0 Micro-B (CCS, which similarly slaps an extra section to support extra functionality, with micro-B the analog to J1772). USB 3.0 Micro-B would have maintained backwards compatibility with older connectors, but I think most people agree the advantages of…

The only people who seems to feel this is bad are those that dislike Tesla. They can’t stand Tesla “winning”. The rest objectively can see NACS is the superior connector and this is a better direction to go.

Some supercharger locations have separate level 2 chargers (which aren’t actually technically chargers, they are EVSEs), and sure, you can use them, just like some people already do with adapters.

400k is only the amount with FSD. The amount with Autopilot is 830k as per end of article. Also as per warning by NHTSA, the data gathering by manufacturers is not equal.