Full disclosure: I sold cars for 6 years, selling new FIAT/Alfa Romeo and used cars.

Let’s not forget that CR broke some of their own scoring rules in order to give the Model S the “best score ever”. If Tesla is mad about anything it’s that Consumer Reports realized they were drinking the Tesla Kool-Aid and returned to the real world.

Yes, to the same people who make phone calls on their landlines, pay for groceries by writing a check, and watch the evening news on their CRT Zenith television set from their Barcalounger.

I’ve seen a few in the wild here in the Bay Area. I kind of like it, to be honest (still hate the “dash”).

I’m not waiting for my December issue of CR, I’m rating it ‘poor’ before it gets to my mailbox.

On the one hand, they have a point. On the other, they sound insane.

Anyone under 60, probably not.

Is Consumer Reports relevant to most people buying a car? Not being sarcastic, it just never even crossed my mind to see what they thought before buying a car.

Demos. Advertisers say the older you are the more repeats an ad takes to sell you what they want to sell you. Any medium that survives on advertising wants younger demographics.

My problem as a host is just the opposite. I have friends that DO drink that wish DIDN’T.

You need more parentheses in your posts. Get on that.

I really don’t understand why not drinking is an issue. I don’t drink. I ask the bartender for a coke or a ginger ale. Very rarely, far less than once a year, I’ll have a beer, or a glass of wine. When I do, I don’t usually finish it. I have multiple reasons for this, none of which are anyone’s business, but mine.

I’ve been teetotal all my life, and it’s been a frequent and horrible experience that people deliberately leave me out because they automatically either assume I won’t be fun, or I won’t have fun, where people will be drinking.

I once had a girl walk out on me on a date when she found out I don’t drink; bullet dodged,…

Erm, no. What needs to be changed is the signage and traffic control, not for autonomous vehicles (or anyone) to do California stops. GTFO with that.

Not going to happen.

This is why the biggest benefits of self driving cars will only come in the distant future once every car is mandated to be self driving. Until then it will be a nightmare, which is a shame because this tech is so needed, with 40,000 a year still dying in crashes. Once every car is automated, the weakest link will…

I don’t usually write comments just straight critical of the article, but this is pretty brutal. You basically just summarized somebody else’s opinion piece. You could have just put a link to TPG’s site and been done with it. Even then, it should have come with a disclaimer that TPG is not exactly an unbiased…

I can only imagine the thought pieces and video blogs that would have been made about the Twilight Zone.

Some of us don’t.
I watched the first episode, decided I didn’t want a show like this in my head, and stopped.

I’ve read that LAtimes article about 20 times. The “facts” as you state are misrepresented. But if you want to play that game, Tesla has “4.9 Billion” in subsidies.