I’m curious also what was the change. Hard to know what to think of the results without older data to compare to. And given the latest Tesla recall has nothing to do with self driving (it was dash symbol font being too small) it kind of shows the respondents are probably clueless about what the recalls entailed.

I doubt someone who has the means to buy both and also went ahead to do this stunt will care if insurance covers them or not. You can see much more reckless driving by people even with no insurance at all and that doesn’t seem to deter them.

Yep, the steering wheel detection is to mainly detect if you are paying attention. If you are adjusting the volume, that’s a pretty clear indication you are paying attention. It’s a very reasonable feature, especially for people that have a hard time satisfying the torque based nag.

That’s the gist I get too. The people complaining the most are the ones that are doing exactly the wrong things the update is trying to prevent. I read a thread where the person complained he can no longer send occasional texts without the car complaining, most people responded: that’s exactly the point!

I was skeptical of Autopilot, but with accelerator override it actually works quite well. Basically AP tends to err on the side of slowing down (and takes a while to pick up speed again). However, accelerator override does not kick you out of the mode, so you can use that all the time as necessary.

The arguments you make has been brought up by Toyota lots of times already:

Except that is a false comparison. Hybrids will never have zero tailpipe emissions, you can see that in the hydrogen ICE (which still generate NOx emissions despite having no CO2 emissions). This is to ignore even that with gasoline powered hybrids, by way of physics, there will always be CO2 and other pollutants gener…

On the Subaru, I’m reminded of this video where a stock subaru easily beats a bunch of “serious” off roader vehicles:

That’s exactly what I thought too. Probably the account shows the amount reversed so the seller thought it meant the check was forged with the routing number and account number of the seller. It makes zero sense for the bank to “verify it” if it really was the seller’s account number, especially given if it was a…

It was actually very easy to buy even after they took it off the menu, and plenty of people got one, you just needed to order it from a sales rep. I ended up spending the extra to get the true base model because it didn’t seem worth it to have some of the range locked out and no Autopilot.

Well, charge networks are huge money losers, so these are some of the few ways they can keep costs under control and get some revenue when few people are using them. The problem is the paradox that the best charging network is the one that has few people using it (everyone would rather arrive at an empty station than…

It’s not info they are after. They are trying to prevent taking a bath on transaction fees and also they need working capital to maintain and expand their network. If you buy a credit it also encourages you to use it. It also reduces costs in terms of payment terminal maintenance and connection.

I’m basing it on the wiki page which points to two below ground stations, although you are right, it seems it ended up with initially two above ground stations and one underground although it has expanded since then.

Given the throughput (4500 passengers per hour) handles the peak demand already, even with “stupid” vehicles, why does it matter that a subway might have more throughput? Las Vegas would just be wasting money on excess capacity that is overkill for peak demand, and ridiculous for daily demand.

The cost of the 1.7 mile Las Vegas loop, including the tunnels and 2 subsurface stations, and one surface station was $47 million. There is no way in hell you can do that with a subway, even the initial budget proposal (and in the US it is guaranteed to be over budget). I remember reading initial equivalent light rail…

Because it would have cost drastically more (even on budget, which they never are), taken much more time to build (even on time, which they never are), and scales poorly when there is lower demand (which is an issue for the convention loop).

It’s possible you rented one that was released prior to adding it, but I remember reading at least some RWD has the acceleration limited to chill and top speed limited to 120mph, as well as a bunch of settings locked out. People buying them used from Hertz reported needing to wait for account to transfer before they…

These are based on more insurance claims, not necessarily more crashes. There are other factors why cars like Teslas are more likely to have claims:

Hertz actually has custom software on their cars with special limiters and a profile system to allow guest usage of the Tesla app that regular Teslas don’t have. So if they wanted to add a special mode to disable one pedal driving, it likely is possible.

Yeah, other than the popping of the cover to pop the frunk, the procedure is not significantly different from jumping a typical ICE car.