The whole Tesla experience is a beta test. The way the bugs die inside the tail lights or the fog lights fill up with water. FSD is just an extension of the experience. Maybe the 3 and y are better but you can really tell the Model S was the first thing they ever built. That being said I enjoy my Tesla a lot even…

Tesla owner here. FSD is a scam and a sham. Autopilot is barely good enough where I’m okay using it on roads, if and only if I don't mind it randomly flipping shit and giving passengers heart attacks because a road dips before a bridge... 

Even the most well built vehicles will have issues every now and then, at which point you would go to a dealer or call a robo-operated customer service. This is just a tweak to the customer service side, more personal and hopefully more efficient. I also think this would serve other purposes, such as ownership…

Sorry off the cuff comment. I don’t think a BEV, particularly a pickup, has a chance of being under 2800 lbs considering the current weight of other segments.

If sure makes life easier when you have it.  Lots of big and little problems go away quickly and easily. 

If we did that 90+% of cars in the US would be impounded. I’d really not appreciate Sarah McLachlan singing a sad car ballad about the storage of all the sad cars that have been wrongfully neglected.

I I think part of the issue is that lidar requires a lot of processing power to use in a high resolution system. And that becomes a problem for energy efficiency. So it’s a pretty tricky problem to solve with the various balances of energy efficiency and input and processing power. In a gasoline powered vehicle you…

I can make a conclusion. I’m a physicist. The camera resolution and resolving power are not good enough. I’ve done the math out of my own curiosity. The current hardware is not physically capable - even with the best theoretical software - to come close to matching human eyesight. Not only that - but even with…

Counterpoint, every single car on the road is designed to have a meat-bag in the driver’s seat and the NHTSA absolutely requires one to be operating any vehicle on the road. Just because the meat-bag in your car hasn’t fucked up yet, doesn’t mean it won’t someday.

Cop cars get hit all the time, as do those giant, bright yellow highway department trucks with flashing lights.

People use other senses when driving, too, particularly hearing.

Yeah, it’s actually something of a cliché for both the news and reality shows based on the lives of cops and emergency responders. People even run into larger and more conspicuous vehicles such as ambulances and even fire trucks that are sitting there with all the flashing lights going. An EMT friend in the Bay Area…

Right? This thing seems really cool and I hope they’re successful but at $75K it’s not really a truck. It’s a luxury truck-style transportation lifestyle concept. I would much rather have something cheaper with less bells and whistles that just lets me put that low center of gravity and all those torques to use.

Based on Suspended License Boy, the Telsa might be a better driver. If the meat bag had been in control, it likely would have center punched the troopers car and gotten the dead deer for the 7/10 split.

But does the car have a driver’s license?

Tesla Autopilot is getting really good. Here we see it pull itself into the nearest Charger.

Don't need a valid driver's license when the car's driving for you. That's just science. 

Kit cars or retrofit kits will be the only option.  Automakers see too much profit (and too much safety-benefit) to not add in ADAS. 

i was thinking the same things.. pros and cons.... i think a pro would be that this gives them full control over rear end gearing (which is different with an electric motor vs gas) thus reducing the number of gears/power loss. this also reduces drive shaft twist. lastly that leaves more room in the engine bay and…

I’ll take “Unsprung Weight” for £1000, Alex.