In the NYT reporting, they said the 1 dead person was found inside the car. My guess is that the moron’s fuse didn’t work and it blew up part of the payload while he was trying to get the rest of the bomb set up.

Elon doesn’t make any money directly. Arguably he loses a bit: locking in massive depreciation for all Model 3 owners (“yo bro I’m not paying $25k for your used car, I can get it at hertz for $18k”) means the effective cost of buying new directly from Tesla goes up.

During the VC riches days, they’d pay gig-workers a ton to drive around and get them charged and redeployed by any means necessary.

At least the 2026 cars are getting slightly smaller, along with their very weird active aero and engine deployment rules.  Formula E can put on a decent Monaco race, so it’s not like it’s impossible for the track to be good.

It’s very clear: you’re on the hook for a level 2 system.

Dontcha know, it’s the release that’ll fix it.

Well, if trump voters turn back when confronted with an electronic voting machine, I’m happy.

Huh, I wonder if used car pricing has the same collusion-via-server that the feds are going after landlords for (google RealPage). If enough dealers in an area use the same pricing algorithm, then the provider of the pricing algorithm can hike prices regionally to the benefit of the dealers and detriment of customers.

He makes the point near the beginning and at the end that your particular use case is an excellent use of peltier coolers: mobile, temporary cooling. Fridges and heat pumps do very poorly when moved.

Max has sucked in particular since the summer break.

I know this thing is hurting for every joule, but speccing LFP batteries might’ve been a good idea. Crashes will eventually happen, closing a highway for half a day every time one does seems like a bad tradeoff.

The solar farm usage is only viable if their satellite is as big or bigger than the farm itself. Solar input is ~1kW per square meter, so even assuming they can focus the whole reflection perfectly, a square-kilometer solar array would need a square kilometer satellite to keep it fully fed.

Paxton is probably extra-aware of how the data is being abused, since his other underlings are likely using location-broker data to enforce his insane abortion restrictions.

They’ve overbuilt cars every single quarter for 5 straight, IIRC. That still says there’s a large net oversupply of Teslas, whether the composition of that oversupply is changing or not. If you’re building 10k-50k more cars each quarter than you sell, those are ending up on a lot somewhere.

That’s some serious budget cuts. Good ol’ private equity...

All the reviews I’ve seen, even from very skeptical people, tend to call out the steering as quite pleasant. I guess 0.125ms ain’t great, but if it’s not pissing off people who are actively looking for issues, then I guess it’s not a problem.

Maybe Elon should expand on how people who care about climate change are communists. That’ll get people rushing to hand him money for climate-friendly vehicles.

From other coverage I heard about it, the software teams had only had the cars for 2 months, so I’m actually somewhat impressed they got to within 20 seconds of kyvyat.

You and halfkidding are both right. It’s cheaper to fuel an EV over an ICE, but not as much cheaper as it is in Europe because of the lower gas taxes. The US automakers seem content to only make EVs that are $60k+, and with the Bolt dead, there’s no cheap EV like a Renault Zoe or BYD Seagull available to be an…

With bonus points for their 787-and-later corporate structure emphasizing subcontracting over in-house design.