No sweat! Just didn’t want it to chain into a larger misunderstanding

I agree- but for the record, you read my bit too fast. I agreed that the OEMs aren’t switching to DS.

I said “...they fight Direct Sale not because it would most likely result in their OEM’s switching to Direct Sales, they fight because...”

But yeah, this lines up with my understanding and I stand by me thinking the…

Woah, no need to be a dick, I genuinely thought you made a mistake.
There are a couple presumptions here that don’t think hold water-

1) “Sight Unseen”? The direct-sales companies aren’t idiots, they know people want to test drive these things. The cost of driving out in a vehicle for someone to test is ultimately…

I’m asking specifically about locations targeted both by Jeep and Rivian, like state parks in the US. I’m just idly musing at who will get to them first, considering Rivian probably has the head start, but less established acting power.

It’ll be interesting to see how many locations Rivian can beat them to.

Right, so- unless I’m grossly misunderstanding your argument here -isn’t this exactly why we know this is nothing more than anti-competition bullshit coming from the dealers?

They know DAMN well their relationship with the OEMs is symbiotic and practically carved in stone- they fight Direct Sale not because it would…

I’m forced to assume you’ve typo’d pretty bad here, because the truth is the opposite. In reality, Direct Sale would serve MORE people than the dealership model, because Direct Sale doesn’t rely on there being a dealer nearby. They can afford to serve everyone because they don’t have to have a brick-and-mortar nearby…

I could go into the details but at the end of the day, it all relies on the trust I have in the ~dozen friends I have that have worked for Nikola for years, not in leadership roles, but as grunt engineers. And my own knowledge as a electromechanical engineer, who spent a lot of time up close with that vehicle,…

The thing about the Nikola hit is that it looks on the surface like everything they reported was real, but just because something is true on the surface doesn’t actually mean it’s a big deal that proves a company is a fraud.
On the issue with the truck that was rolled down a hill for a shoot, for example. Hindenburg…

Do you honestly think that any viable business built on engineering IP would let their actual bread and butter into the hands of anyone other than employees and institutional investors?
As an engineer of a tech startup that’s been in the news- people in the general public who think they know everything about the…

I agree, I was being polite. This is basically what happened to Nikola- very few people actually read the Hindenburg report, they just read the sensationalized news around it and it made that WAY worse for Nikola than it needed to be and played perfectly into Hindenburg’s hand, helping them make shittons of money.

You would think, but you have to remember there’s a LOOOOT of grey space between “the explicit truth” and “lawsuit-grade slander”.
That zone leaves lots of room for embellishment and overstatement.
The general public is so woefully underinformed on tech issues and the development cycles of vehicles and the like that…

This all seems like legit research, but I strikes me as disingenuous to not once mention that Hindenburg is a SHORT SELLING firm- they release this research specifically to profit off of the resulting stock collapse. As such, it’s always good to take it with a grain of salt.

That being said, the commonality with Nikola…

Plenty of those cars have din/double-din trim adaptors.
I’ve been thinking about upgrading the stereo in my ‘04 TSX.

Since GPS isn’t the only localization strategy our phones use, my guess is they have PLENTY of data to at least report accurate expected error, so I would say that if 12 yards was the reported error from the GPS data, it was probably pretty spot on about it. 12 yards is pretty good in a large building like that.

I’m extremely excited for the R1T. My desire for an EV and something tech-heavy has always been at odds with my desire for something Tacoma-esque.
No other car or truck has checked so many boxes for me simultaneously- so much so that this is the first time I’ve ever saved up for a specific vehicle.

“I took the time to rip dozens of CDs to my computer and then developed an elaborate system that kept me bound to the physical media.”

But honestly, not a bad hybrid. I’m a visual person so I see the allure of wanting to pick from a list of physical things, but still queue and play at the speed of digital media.

It’s like reverse uncanny valley- I was CERTAIN the headlining image was a dramatic photoshop for the clicks. The GLA looks BLATANTLY photoshopped onto that image to me, how wild!

I know source vetting is apparently a lost art, but usually the very first check is “does this source financially gain from what they’re publishing” and that should have been a colossal red flag on that hindenburg report. They made SO much money convincing everyone Nikola is a fraud, and largely on outdated…

To be fair, no matter how you cut it and whether Nikola is happy about it or not, their best chance at success (or simply un-failure) is shutting up, putting their head down, getting pen to paper, and focusing on their core business model.