The seat heater button is right on the screen if you look at the article picture. Tesla fixed it with an update after people complained (even before then was only one screen away on the climate screen). A later update also allows you to customize the scroll wheel on the steering wheel and use that to adjust it.

Due to a recent update, you can now adjust the temperature or fan speed using the scroll wheel on the steering wheel, making this less necessary for those that prefer physical controls.

Total weight the truck is capable of we know because it was tested close to legal limits by Tesla getting 500 miles of range at 81k lbs, carrying jersey barriers. The max allowable total weight in the US for battery trucks are 82k lbs, normal truck are allowed up to 80k lbs (federal law allows extra 2000 lbs for…

The only implementations where it would be hard to determine from a log are the end-to-end implementations like Wayve and Tesla’s V12 experiment. Those are the only implementations that are like how you characterize.

“The intent doesn’t matter. The outcome does. Because we can’t actually determine what its intent was (neither can we for humans, btw; a rationalization and a reason are two different things).”

I think it does matter, because the car didn’t drive forward to get off the pedestrian. According to the statement Cruise released, it drove forward to pull to the curb to reach a “minimal risk condition” that it was programmed for, it wasn’t to get off the pedestrian.

68% y/y on a low number is still a low number! That’s 4,342 vs 2,574. That’s another misleading way to present data (kind of like how people quote super high percentage growth for some of the lower volume EVs and say they are doing amazing compared to Tesla, when the hard numbers tell a different story).

Those people were talking about driving off the person after that person was pinned (implication being actually getting out of the car and seeing where the person was and which direction to drive to get off if was even possible), not just blindly driving forward not knowing where the person was.

Well, I compare to the Prius because that was the example brought up in the article, plus it’s pretty much the iconic representative hybrid (everyone thinks of it when talking about hybrids). Just to show how misleading it is to look at weeks of supply as an indication of demand.

Yep, that part is a total lie too. It’s more like the opposite, Tesla is selling well more than 3x the EVs than Toyota is selling PHEVs. If Toyota put their heart to it, they should have been able to do lot better in EVs (for example back then if they released a Prius EV instead of naysaying), but instead it is…

I didn’t look at 2023 because the numbers aren’t fully in yet, but the Prius isn’t doing any better in 2023. So far they sold only 25,654 units as of end of September. If Q4 is like last year they might squeeze in another 10k for around 35k-36k sales in 2023, still worse than the closest EVs from GM and Ford.

They just posted Toyota PR without verifying it with hard numbers. I posted in a different post the Prius they are saying is selling well compared to EVs (which they use misleading comparisons of the F150 Lightning supply vs Prius) actually is selling worse than mediocre selling EVs, much less hot sellers like the…

Quite misleading, Toyota’s EV sales suck because their EV sucks and is not competitive.

The problem was the CRZ was neither efficient nor sporty. Unless Honda drops the ball hard, it’s fairly hard to make the same mistake with an EV. Given Honda is using GM tech, they can just take the Bolt drivetrain (which already makes 200 hp and gets a real world 0-60 under 6.5 second, even quicker than a Civic Si)…

Smog is the haze from pollutants from cars and industrial activity, but it doesn’t cause the same low visibility conditions as fog and smoke.

Travel savvy people typically have a credit card that already has rental insurance coverage (which the guy mentioned), so they always opt out of the car rental insurance. The problem is Turo is not technically considered a rental car company, but more like a car sharing company. That's where this guy got tripped up.

“Being replaced by a program called Clean Cars 4 All which aims to do what the CVRP was supposed to do in the first place: help low income buyers purchase EVs.”

I think the problem is while every manufacturer has their own approach to making their EVs look different, Tesla went with a design that still looked largely sporty and conventionally “good”. Same deal with the Taycan and the Audi equivalents. The EQS instead looks too much like an egg.

People actually already did tests years ago, it won’t even crush a banana:

I don’t have a Model X, but I have a Model 3 with a powered trunk lid and it also senses resistance and stops. I imagine the X works works the same way. As others pointed out, the kid seemed to have slipped out before there was even any resistance at all.