I’m an automotive engineer who works in automotive lighting design. We were hoping this would go through- our incoming platform is set to include advanced adaptive headlights that were going to be kneecapped on US market vehicles- looks like we may be ready-to-market with this when it gets formalized! Very exciting!

Good observation- I’m a mechanical engineer but I didn’t think of that until I saw your comment, so it’ll be the buckle side of the belt for me tonight.

One thing that definitely helps them is that the mass of the projectile is actually a surprisingly small amount of the total rotating mass, but that alone probably…

It’s because the UAW reps all of the Big Three, so until Tesla and other startups, “Domestic” was basically analogous to “Big Three” and most of these parking/brand perks are union-negotiated one way or another.

The worst part is that they literally redesigned the BMW i3 without stopping to be like “hey, but did the i3 do very well?”

No. It didn’t. Used ones in perfect condition are <$15k and plentiful, and you can even get them with range extenders.

So... this is a BMW i3, but literally a decade late?
Sounds like typical Mazda, despite how much I still love them.

From having ridden in one, having been around them on the road, and from watching this- they’ve got some weird insistence on being in the right lane as much as possible. I think that’s what did it in and caused the weird slaloming effect.

I mean... from the image it seems pretty clear what happened. Taco driver drifter cleanly and quickly into oncoming traffic with enough leftward speed to carry them to the guard rail. The Merc seems to have been hit square on, and it’s still dead-nuts in the middle of it’s lane, minus the obvious beginnings of a…

Would be interesting to see someone pick up the chassis tooling and start building more Tesla Roadsters

I can’t help but notice that this teaser doesn’t once show it on anything other than a flat, immaculately paved surface.
Not an implication of it’s capability, of course- just a very odd marketing choice... It’s like the cinematographic version of saying the quiet part out loud.

I apologize for being abrasive, wasn’t my intent. I was trying (and failing) to extend an out if I was misunderstanding you.

I think ultimately we’re both right. Neither model is perfect and there will be people left out in the cold either way, but I would definitely disagree that LESS people will be served through a…

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…