Well, I hold auto journalists to higher standards than the general public. Because if even auto journalists make zero effort to use the correct units, there is no hope for the general public to learn. Also, when auto journalists get it wrong, unlike in this case, sometimes it’s not possible from the context to tell if…

Yep, the latter EVs are not suitable for. That’s why EVs designed for city use have largely been a failure, because in the city most likely you have street parking with no practical way to have overnight charging. Another common use case for cars in the city is to use them only for longer trips or when you need to…

The car doesn’t have 85kWh of capacity though. Seriously auto journalists need to get the units right this day and age.

That’s FSD, not the Autopilot that the person had. Tesla didn’t release the first version of the FSD software until after late 2021, well after the accident happened.

Nope, there is no issue paying attention at all. It’s just like using cruise control. If you are an irresponsible person, you can play games, text, watch videos even on cruise control and nothing will stop you. If you are a responsible person, you won’t do those things. These are just people that want to shirk…

No it’s not. The point of the systems is to reduce driver fatigue from not having to do micro adjustments to the throttle/brakes/steering to keep the car on the road, in much the same way a plane’s autopilot works, as well as the general idea of cruise control in the first place. It is not so you can play videogames…

They don’t necessarily have to either. The lawyers are making a very specious argument about the game being open on the phone not being proof it was being played, but I don’t think most people would buy that argument. I looked up the game and it’s not an AFK game where leaving the game open in the foreground would…

Autopilot in the plane doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay attention to the conditions, it still requires the pilot to be paying attention, as it would happily crash you into a mountain, another plane, or some other obstacle.

Nope not true at all, Infiniti’s system doesn’t even use steering wheel monitoring (you can even leave the seat completely).

Who says we are going to evacuate 7 billion people? It was always going to be just a subset of people, just so humanity is not completely eliminated. And who said anything about it being a drop of a hat? It’ll be a long process, but this is just a start of it. He never suggested that it’ll be mission accomplished even…

Except it’s not, you left out my second part that explains why it’s not. The Mars colony is just a plan B in case something apocalyptic happens, like for example a meteor strike that that destroys the earth, it’s not “we fucked up Earth” especially not specifically climate change as this article was suggesting.

I think that’s a false premise, I don’t think Musk ever suggested that making a colony to Mars means we should give up trying to fix climate change on our planet. And the apocalyptic event that such a colony is supposed to address is not climate change in the first place (but rather something that makes Earth…

Probably the same reason why some vulnerabilities are not made public in exchange for bounties (namely so they don’t get used by other actors, as it’s not a given all networks have addressed them). Even though it is bad policy to rely fully on security by obscurity, the fact of the matter is that many times it is…

“With China- lots of accusations are thrown about, but very little is actually proven. Even with Huawei -lots of accusations but thus far nobody has seen any evidence that Huawei is doing any hacking or spying.”

People aren’t selling checklists, but it’s not hard to find people also doing similar new car checklists for other brands (just a quick Google of the German big 3 for example):

Yeah, I laughed when he pointed out the MachE as a positive example, given all the horror stories I have heard (many reported in the news). It had so many serious problems that the Teslas look a lot better in comparison. As much as people here like to harp on panel gaps, they largely don’t matter to most people, which…

Yeah, this doesn't bode well and seems like desperation. It sounds like a great deal, except for the high probability the company goes bankrupt and you would be left high and dry if you need service. Heck, even if it survives, service may still be a challenge.

There’s also this one, which still has the same point about assuming it was the touchscreen and also includes a claim about the windows being unbreakable, which we now know is not true.

The WSJ passage is here:

Sure but the “suck in multiple ways” have nothing to do with this incident, especially given now there is finally confirmation that the car had physical stalks (see below comment). There was zero evidence in the first place it had the touchscreen system (the initial WSJ article never claimed that), it was only some ”jo…