counter-point - virtually every single industry in this country has been profitable on the backs of implicit or explicit tax subsidies and/or govt research funneled into the private sector. Tesla is doing nothing unusual or underhanded here.

Yep. Lutz is a true industry insider who is thouroughly entrenched in the old ways of doing business. He was an executive at Ford and Chrysler through the malaise era when the cars churned out were garbage and the companies obviously didn’t give a shit about their customers. Lutz is now an angry old man who is afraid…

Bob Lutz is the Rush Limbaugh of the auto industry: standing on the side lines and cheering for failure.

1st Gear: Tesla’s Q3 Win

It was as if Ferrari decided to leave Formula One for a regional dirt track series in the American South.

GM deserve to be punished for their awful “real people, not actors” campaign.

That was a driverless truck.

A barrel roll is a low positive G maneuver - so gentle that most airliners could manage it without falling apart.

a helmet

Yeah, no.

My parents married in 1984. Their combined income at the time was $34k/yr. Adjusted for inflation, that’s about $80k, or $40k each in 2016 money.

THEY BOUGHT A HOUSE AND TWO CARS ON THAT INCOME.

I make $80k/yr myself, and I’m nowhere near being close to being able to purchase a house, much less a new car. And,…

THE DECADE ENDED IN 1972

Patrick George & Michael Ballaban

I passed a car down in my family so that some of our grandchildren could learn to drive a manual transmission. I told our older grandson that it would be a good way to impress young women. Maybe I was right? Maybe I was just preparing him for a successful career in auto theft?

Elon is probably yelling at someone right at this second about that.

the Tesla’s driving style would be just fine in Boston, where driving patterns are all unpredictable.

Already there.

Am I the only one thinking it is driving fairly aggressively? Accelerating pretty fast, changing lanes quickly, braking hard. I get it, it can make decisions much quicker than a person, but it should still be predictable to other drivers around it.

One must crawl before one breaks into a full sprint.

Hence, these features will not be turned on for quite a while, but with the hardware now onboard, they will be in a passive learning mode.

Calm down, people. It’s not meant to be 100% error free yet. Were you 100% error free as a 16 year old with a Learner’s Permit?

And…

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