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Only reason why Altima drivers aren’t on that list is because they don’t have insurance. Tesla drivers are essentially Altima drivers with arguably ‘nicer’ cars, that can afford to insure their vehicles. And Ram drivers being #2 for accidents and the coveted #1 spot for ‘incidents’ come at no surprise to anyone.

Guessing the Ram drivers tend to have DUI incidents and the Teslas have more speeding tickets. 

But, he said, “there don’t appear to be any answers or fixes relating to the system’s repeated failures to detect and respond to emergency personnel and other related hazards.”

Probably ambiguous because it’s confusing. I work as an analyst for an OEM, and tons of people who should be “in the know” on such things are confused about which vehicle will qualify for how much of the credit. 

A spokesperson for NHTSA said the probe found Tesla’s means for keeping drivers engaged were “inadequate.”

Journalism? Here? ROFL! 

“What might help in situations like this is workers coming together to support one another through collective bargaining.”

They don’t test everything, due to limited budget and time they only test volume sellers unless the manufacturer pays to have them tested. Walk into any luxury car dealer and you’ll see all kinds of cars without star ratings on the stickers.

The battery is not just energy storage, it’s the power delivery source. It’s why a long range (large battery) comes with a lot of power—the larger pack can discharge more power at a time safely. The motor just converts it into rotational work. A small motor will hamstring a big battery by limiting its work potential

To be fair, it was their first car designed from scratch, and probably their first motors designed from scratch. This was an early adopter product only a few years after this brand new car company barely survived The Great Recession and running on a completely new technology stack for the industry.

Not mentioned in this article but previously reported by Jalopnik in 2022 (https://jalopnik.com/one-tesla-model-s-has-gone-nearly-1-million-miles-and-n-1848362945),

How is this an “extra $120k”?

Very much in support of this.

It actually is industry standard, at least in the USA. You can check the testing methodology from any major automotive magazine. I’ll link C&D and R&T:

This is one of the dumbest takes I’ve read on Jalopnik all year (and that’s saying a lot). The “extremely lopsided on paper” comment completely OMITS what was admitted in the very first paragraph: the Cybertruck is towing a copy of the car it’s racing!

Does Rivian not subtract rollout? They could... Mainstream manufacturers and magazines have been advertising their performance without rollout since before Tesla even existed, so if you’re going to compare apples to apples, you subtract rollout. We all know it, but thats the standard now.

Agreed - I think this brief opinion seems to go out of its way to downplay what is not just a legit marketing spectacle, but truly noteworthy performance. Whether the 911 was the slowest model or not, it got smoked by a pickup pulling another car on a trailer. I’m not a Tesla owner or even a fan, but I think it’s OK

I have no idea what is more obnoxious and nauseating these days:

Vehicle that costs the same as a Porsche beats Porsche in drag race while towing another Porsche?

I mean, it’s impressive, if nothing else. All drag races are spectacle, really.

From the perspective of most drivers, you could just say: