Amazon probably was being shitty, but it’s still wrong to just dump the packages into the forest. Unless the driver scanned every package and signed for it as delivered, it wouldn’t show up as delivered anyways, so I’m not sure what it would have accomplished anyways in terms of getting credit for having done the…

A lot of cars already have this (NHTSA said in 2022 47% already have it voluntarily), so NHTSA pushing it to all cars isn’t much of a surprise.

That only works for departments that have to deal with little or no crime. For most places all it results in is overworked cops that are paid a ton of overtime. That has real negative impact on response to calls, especially to property crime (a huge factor in the results of local elections this cycle).

That’s Cruise (which GM just announced they are shutting down), not Waymo. Both of those companies have remote operators and in Cruise’s case I believe they intervene every few miles. I’m surprised so many people upthread are unaware the self driving taxis out there have remote operators (and not in a 1:1 ratio!)

Actually we can’t conclude it failed, because every AEB system out there allows you to override them to avoid false positives causing you to be rear ended or interfering with other avoidance maneuvers (for example swerving). This includes Tesla’s system (bold emphasis mine):

“Pedal confusion is usually in short bursts and a person quickly stops pressing once they’re realized their error. A couple seconds at most.”

What you say would be true if it was cash, but it’s giving him stock options, not cash. The stock options tie him to the company because it benefits him for them to be worth more.

Electrocution risk is actually extremely low for EVs in a crash, and I am not aware of any incidents where rescuers got electrocuted by an EV (nor could I find one in a search).

Yeah, trees usually win no matter how well you design your vehicle. The only other variable that might help or hurt is your speed, which the police here suggest it probably was high.

While in stock vernacular it means that (more accurately “market capitalization”), in this particular context, it doesn’t. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to do it based on market capitalization given that has no direct relation to a vehicle’s market share and varies daily.

Taxis are not their own cars though and is far less flexible. Keep in mind this is not talking about ride sharing fleet owned autonomous vehicles, but on that is owned by the owner themselves.

It’s probably colored PPF, which is a relatively new niche product. The vast majority of products out there are either uncolored PPF or vinyl. It’s not like they buy random urethane sheets, it has to be suitable for automotive applications and has to come in the right color.

Ultimately that didn’t matter for its sales, there was nothing else like it in the EV space. The risk for being too late is some other competitor comes out with a similar product first or you get stuck in the development stage while your company burns through cash just for general operation. Too many examples of this…

Sorry, no insider knowledge, especially as it relates to what is happening so recent, I have been following them since the Roadster days from the outside, so would know a bit more than your average commenter.

It worked for him in the past with Tesla where the engineers missed his ambitious timelines, but still came out with a vehicle much faster than most of the industry was doing (even more difficult for a startup to achieve, especially on a brand new chassis and relatively new technology).

Good point about correlation factors. The nature of the brand (being all EVs) will tend to concentrate the cars to certain states and driving locations. Without controlling for those factors, it's anyone's guess why the numbers. It also matters if the fatalities are talking about in-vehicle or to others.

I was kind of beat to it, but here’s the more detailed explanation:

“Door locks are used for locking the door. In many cars those are automatically released on release of the airbags.”

It’s cheaper because if you actually examine the design in detail, the mechanical door pull is just a simple lever cable. This design eliminates the need for a lock mechanism because the “lock” is 100% software based.

The rear door releases are hidden to prevent children from pulling it. Putting it in an obvious place would defeat the purpose of child locks.