Sales of the A4 allroad were strong enough to justify certifying the A6 allroad here, from that point getting the RS6 certified here was easier, since the RS6 drivetrain is already to be used here in two models that were definitely coming stateside.

Wow, that is pedantic even for me.

Sure, you can test on public roads once your system demonstrates a level of competence to evade a woman walking across the road. This isn’t some stupid edge case that they’re trying to test, this is an incident that can happen thousands a times a day.

Not to mention those surgeons practised and trained many times over on pigs before performing a full on surgery. Coming around full circle to my original complaint, these autonomous cars should be practising on the proverbial pigs before being unleashed upon the public. 6 fuckin seconds to do something and it did…

What a terrible analogy. Those people that elected for those heart surgeries did it on their own accord. It was their decision. It isn’t as if the surgeon started slicing up random passerbys on the way to the surgery.

Just get a Honda Element. And if you so wish, maybe swap a S2000 motor in it.

C’mon, Lincoln, get your shit together. Make something like the Cadillac CTS-V just to whip up some excitement and make people remember you still exist. If you made a luxury performance sedan like the CTS-V you would probably stop being invisible and maybe sell some living room on wheels cars too.

Get a life, and you’ll understand.

They have too much brand equity and too much of a head start on the supercharger network for the company to simply go belly up. Worst case, another billionaire investor or VC group would buy it (even if out of BK) and continue the development.

You’re not even a fun troll.

Show me on the doll where PayPal touched you.

Right!? Except you’re way off about the refueling. Simply reading the generic spec numbers doesn’t tell you how you’re actually going to operate the vessel or the scenarios you have to plan for.

“The reports related to Mark purchasing a yacht are completely inaccurate as he did not purchase a yacht.”

I’ve tried racing one of the local French down a series of hairpins, on a motorcycle no less (1950 Nimbus, but still). The guy in the large van still outran me. Had fun though, but also remembered touring rule # 22: “Never race the locals. They know the roads and have less to live for”.

If you start at throttle up, and you get to 60 without taking off, stop counting; You’re probably not going to take off...

I would think they need to create swappable batteries and battery depots/networks for trucks, particularly long-haul trucks, to really ever switch to electric. Otherwise the market would seem to be smaller trucks, or trucks operating for specific operators where the company can help build out the infrastructure (I.e.…

“when you have to have a manual, you get whatever color you get”

What runs forever? Because you are not getting a Model 3.

Nothing wrong with white. It’s a great way to get contracts by adding black accessories.