You’re mixing all this up. After FF started popping up in the news, I read the SEC filings, and here’s the story (all publicly available info, it's worth a read if you like legal-ese):

Just a quick note: I think Brian Krolicki is the Chairman of the Board, not the CEO

This is the real answer.

I’m honestly surprised I didn’t find a Pixar’s “Cars” reference. You’re slippin’, Torch

COTD.

I have never played Mario Tennis. I am addicted to this game.

“It would be inappropriate to speculate about the cause of the accident based on the information you have provided.”

Yeah, it’s not really beating a dead horse when you’re reporting on lives lost due to negligence.

As more and more software is required for every vehicle, there’s bound to be bugs that don’t get noticed. Cars of today have way less problems than yesteryear when it comes to mechanical quality, but the software is still maturing.

To be fair, they also admit in that review that they LOVE the Wrangler for what it is: a fun off-road beast. They scored it low because, as a daily driver for the average “consumer”, it’s terrible. And they aren’t wrong.

Pre-production mules generally don’t worry about things like that. It’s probably for vehicle package evaluation or, if it’s a functional car, dynamics testing.

Based on a few sentences, it sounds like FF has great engineering and technology. That’s what makes this so difficult to read about. It’s the bullshit around the engineering that’s getting in the way.

That’s a wrap, boys. We peaked for for the day.

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I help out a lot with UI UX research in my current role, and let me just say....

I think it was only intended to be a short ban, like a few days or so.

Goddamn, David. Every single one of your articles has been entertaining, educational, or (more likely than not) both.

I’ll tell you something based on my direct knowledge of the situation (albeit from a working-level engineer, so not the most high level knowledge).