If you would otherwise be taking money out of your savings to buy the vehicle, and expect those savings to generate returns greater than the financing rate, the correct answer is to take the loan.

The whole “Tesla slammed into parked firetruck” genre is generally down to radar’s shortcomings (radar is low resolution, so it can’t distinguish between a stopped in-lane firetruck vs a roadside bush), so maybe they’ll be able to do that less now that they’re fully vision-only.

...eBay, where the specialty resellers buy their supply from so that they can sell them to true enthusiasts after another layer of markup.

I don’t follow - was the cyclist or two wrecked civilian vehicles playing stupid games?

The cops can control their reactions. If the cops hadn’t chased, the idiots wouldn’t have hit the cyclist or smacked into cars. They would’ve gotten the infiniti to a chop shop and eventually been caught.

That was a surprisingly good race, given the circuit it was on. It had on-track passes for the lead, actual suspense, and of course HAM and VER going at it for the 4th straight race.

They could probably use a boat-by-wire system make the big model boat accelerate/decelerate/turn like the real one would, even if the model is capable of much greater performance.  Same as how Airbus tries to make all their planes fly the same from teeny A318 to A380.

Moron: “Gee, they should just can the car business and sell credits.”

Uhhhh... the one on the weekend was straight facts and no opinion. That was posted yesterday. You may want to have your memory tested.

So rich (Teslas ain’t cheap), people driving recent-model cars on the highway (where AP is intended to be used) have fewer crashes than rich people driving recent-model cars on a mix of freeway and not-freeway? I’m shocked.

Criminal 1: I have a great idea. Let’s rob an AV!
Criminal 2: Aren’t those absolutely covered in high-res cameras and always-on data connections? Also, why would their doors even be designed to open anywhere except the warehouse? Like, we could coerce a human driver, but the robot ain’t openin’ no doors, onesie.
Criminal…

Do you think perhaps the reason you hear about the UAW’s misdeeds is because there’s a lot of incentive for GM/Ford/FCA to play up whenever the UAW overreaches or fucks up?

Valuable in terms of marginal performance gained? Sure, probably.

Particularly in Tesla’s case though, if you keep the stock price up it can help the company when they do a stock issue. Elon has not been shy about issuing new shares when he thinks the price is high. Tesla has a huge cash pile because they took advantage of the high stock price with several stock issues last year.

The Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) and Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) were deleted.

And the UK worked hard to end the slave trade (oddly, with US help) by force:

Actually the cameras that did this descent video were COTS FLIR industrial cameras, and the 30gb video was put onto non-hardened storage. So they used your basic off the shelf image sensor and put it on your basic, off the shelf storage device (probably an SSD).

$98.8M seems like a shockingly low price for an entire mission. As cheap as SpaceX is compared to other launch companies, it still costs $50-$60M minimum to launch a Falcon 9, plus mission integration costs or government-paperwork costs.

How do you get an end-of-life ICE to a recycling center?  It gets towed to the auto recycler.  I don’t see why it’d be any different with an EV.

The first time I got a $1k bike, I immediately realized “oh that’s why all my other bikes have been uncomfortable, unreliable, and just sat in the garage”.