Given just how little energy is require to land on and take off from the moon compared to Earth, I suspect that once full it’ll stay in lunar orbit for several trips down to the surface and back over months or years, returning to LEO for refuel or resupply as needed.

Its almost like its not a good idea to hold significant value in a completely unregulated and manipulable market.

That’s right, Tesla makes money from selling its products now.

Neutral: 9,583 miles, Upstate NY to California and back, hitting about 20 National Parks along the way, mostly in SD, CO, UT, AZ, NV, and CA.

I don’t think he’s looking for sympathy here, I think he’s just stating, as he’s done in the past, that he spends more time solving engineering problems when he’s working than he does business management ones, and that’s his preference. As a fellow spectrum-y engineering type, I can’t blame him.

Important to note here though that “the dummy itself has functioned nominally” just means that the dummy performed as expected, it collected data during the crash test. It doesn’t tell you whether or not that data would indicated a walk away crash or a fatality. Very different than saying the car functioned…

Fortunately Russia doesn’t have all those job killing freedom hating government overreach regulations.

Lots of people who actually live in areas where there’s no good broadband, or areas with crappy broadband monopolies, are pretty damn excited about Starlink. I have little doubt they could have 5+ million users in the US alone since there are more homes than that that have dial up, slower more expensive satellite…

There’s very few RHD cars in the US and basically all of them are either used by postal workers in rural areas so they can access street side mailboxes without getting out (faster), or classic cars. You can’t import a non-US spec car until its 25 years old, so by the time JDM RHD cars show up, they’re classics anyway.

I wouldn’t say there’s a high likelihood of being genuine unless you can find at least one case of a Tesla airbag being improperly secured where the reporter’s entire premise wasn’t already admittedly a lie.

Of the pre-production Plaid cars that were seen driving around testing, several had round wheels instead of yokes. Its entirely plausible that they installed the yoke at the dealership for whatever reason and just hadn’t finished installing the airbag yet when this opportunist saw his chance.

Its exactly the same, the fix apparently is just adding a chime when TACC is turned on without autosteer. It currently only chimes when autosteer is enabled. Saying it’s activated automatically is a lot less honest than saying someone activated it accidentally without realizing what they’d done.

This is a good example of the power of design. You have to design around the idea that people won’t do things perfectly every time, if you’re making mistakes figure out ways to not allow the mistake. The easier the mistake or the more serious the consequences, the more important it is to design around it.

Warming the front brakes and tires when moving slowly, typically behind the safety car or before the race start.

Gotta serve those takes while they’re hot, not tempered by the cool breeze of information.

Rimac isn’t in production yet, and while 25 cars isn’t a lot, the car appears to be finished. Rimac says the cars they were showing off are about 80% production ready.

You can only load games while the cars are in park, and it won’t let you put the car in drive until you exit the game.

Its strong but brittle, which means it can’t hold much shock but can hold a great deal of force.  I’m sure its being used with this in mind, Tesla has weak points, but drivetrain design (with the exception of some very early Model S bearing failures) isn’t one of them.

If I were a Hyundai dealer I’d be on the phone right now trying to cancel 80% of my Santa Cruz orders.