Recycling of EV batteries is still in its infancy, but it is being worked on.

“adequately trained and properly followed procedure”
Which is great. Except that both the training, and the procedures, were inadequate.

The MAX 737 conversion course was an hour or two on a tablet, no simulator time requirement for pilots of non-MAX versions, and didn’t mention MCAS.
Similarly, the flight manual…

A lot of the media and Boeing initially try to imply some sort of lack of training or pilot error but as the facts came out it appears that the crew was both adequately trained and properly followed procedure. By the time those facts came our the media had slowed its reporting on it (of course). So, the lesson learned…

I just paid $50 to fill up my compact Audi A4 with Premium Unleaded. At this rate my next car will definitely be an EV because it just feels like I’m throwing money away at this point. 

It’s amazing how much people like to hate on Tesla. I think they’re lacking a true corporate focus (luxury vs mass-market, can’t really do both) but otherwise deliver a substantially good product. Now that gas prices are entering the stratosphere, maybe demand will tick up. 

Motortrend published a real world test where they got 365 miles with 11% remaining.

Model3 isn’t far behind.

I don’t call it “drinking the kool-aid” when you look at the progress and say to yourself, damn this is progress. I’m very close to ordering my own.

Jason, this is very arm-chair quarter-backing on the requirements of self-driving.

The presentation yesterday was very interesting. I’m sure there are only a few people in the world who have the technical background to fully understand whether they are full of shit or way ahead of the competition. And most of the people who could competently comment are probably at competitors, so they aren’t going…

That is, almost literally, what he said yesterday.

His engineer that gave the presentation was a bit more impressive, though, and to a layman like me the case he was making makes sense. Maybe they are full of shit? Or maybe they are indeed so far ahead of everyone else that they are doing things others think are…

To be clear, Musk’s statement was that the ability to handle all the necessary edge cases in order for a car to navigate from endpoint to endpoint without driver intervention would be finished before year is out, which does technically mean level 5 autonomy, but he explicitly went on to say that Tesla being…

Also, gonna need a citation for that first one

Yeah remember that chart. No one ever bothers to check if they go anything right and I’m glad you did.

That’s a bullshit chart, from an anti-Tesla source, that doesn’t even include all companies, nor does it consider cost of the implementation.

I have a model 3

The problem with Navigant Research is their methodology is highly flawed. I remember back in the day when they did one for batteries.

Computers aren’t that great at learning these human communication methods. So what if they just... crashed sometimes? Problem solved.

I am not a big fan of Tesla, but I dont see what the deal is. He is saying the car will offer more aggressive modes, which are probably on par with how most people drive in these areas anyways.   I think you just like getting angry at Elon because he makes it easy to write article and then you don’t have to work as…

IMO, Aaaron should listen to that conversation again - in some environments certain maneuvers are very hard to execute without a very assertive driving behavior and owners will have an option to take a level of risk that they are already taking when driving themselves - cars default will still be “timid” behavior. It…