I don’t have much disagreement with your other points, just wanted to mention Waymo’s real world training isn’t as useful for generalized cases given the millions of miles they travel is in small geofenced areas, sometimes even avoiding specific roads in such areas.

I don’t get ths gist the naming matters. The people that attempt dangerous things with it (like the person in this article) are actually well aware of the limitations, are expert users, and the naming is irrelevant to them. It’s newer users or people that have never used the system (but just are commenting on it) that…

Nope, most systems have a lane to light mapping that either is done by premapping or by AI on the spot. Tesla has one too, but it got confused in this particular one.

Looks like it treated the green light that was for the other road as for it.

That is a highly misleading stat and pushed heavily by EV skeptics. As mentioned in the Toyota article, first of all, the type of batteries hybrids use (power dense) is not the same as BEVs (energy dense), as such the ratio is much lower than Toyota indicates from this factor alone. The second is that BEVs can use…

For styling, the Model S had gone through a major change already with the nose come removal, and then another one with the Plaid that made it much wider looking. I think overall, the styling of the S holds up quite well to the times and is still modern looking.

Getting a 18% margin (dropping only 1% from 19%) is still mighty impressive given the massive price drops Tesla did. Plus as others pointed out, given the Model Y is poised to become the best selling car in the world this year (while still having comparatively large margin, keep in mind the competition at this volume a…

People criticize Toyota because their engines and transmissions, and infotainment systems are kept a long time too. But this is not the case for Model S: the battery, motors, inverters, have been through multiple significant iterations already throughout its lifecycle (not to mention a major interior/infotainment…

PHEVs aren’t popular because they are a middling solution. Their overall cost of ownership or even initial vehicle cost in general many times is more than a real EV. Practically every PHEV owner that have used BEV for a while have switched fully to BEVs. It was a stop gap that made the most sense when affordable long…

From what I can find back in July, there was a report of rumors Omead Afshar was being investigated, but no confirmation. The reports saying he was fired was simply embellishment (a common telephone game done by the media). In November, there was a report of rumors of him moving to SpaceX, again with no confirmations…

As pointed out elsewhere, that is simply a side effect of low supply of Toyota PHEVs, not necessarily higher demand. For example, the RAV4 prime sold 18,567 units last year in US, the MachE sold 39,458 units.

I don’t think looking at Toyota PHEV vs BEV sales are instructive. First of all, they’ve kept PHEV supply low, so while that means inventory is low, it doesn’t actually mean they sold that many.

As others mentioned, I don’t see nostalgic weird/rare cars getting hate. Maybe what you say would apply more if you showed up with a newer performance SUV. Like if you showed up in a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT or a Trackhawk? But even then, I don’t see people laughing, especially the Trackhawk.

Well, your Jetta was outputting 15–35 times greater the NOx than dictated by the US standard. Bringing up other sources is just whataboutism (similar arguments have been used to argue to deregulate car emissions in general).

Actually while the compression strength is much worse than tension, it’s not zero. I highly doubt their engineers didn’t calculate it, otherwise it wouldn’t be able to make multiple trips down. Most likely they chose this material given its weight to compression strength is still higher than the metals other subs…

The problem is most of the public believe the same thing, that this was its maiden voyage, when that is far from the case. The Titan did prove that you can make a composite submarine work, just that it eventually failed. A lot of people handwave away the idea from believing it failed on its first try, but the actual…

Yep, Tesla price war is in full swing. Previously these other EVS were marked up like mad due to limited supply and Tesla not qualifying for tax credit. But now that supply has stabilized and Tesla have dropped prices dramatically, it's going to be really hard for them to compete.

They likely did set the margin high enough to cover moderate variations, but didn’t account for 2-3x increase in price based on roof shape and condition. Not sure if this is all based on general roofing factors or if a significant part is specific to the technology they use (how the connections are done between tiles).

I think in this case the issue is they signed an actual contract with the price, it wasn’t just a general estimator with price subject to change later based on an in person estimate.

I would have to see a video of actual use, but from what I see that is just suggesting based on starting SOC but the base data relies on the accuracy/capabilities of Apple maps. There doesn’t appear to be any integrated station status/pricing, no prediction of soc at every stop, no prediction of charge time at every…