People keep saying that, but the extra trips I need to make because of charging in between, the rentals for long trips, and the air travel for places I could have driven will easily eat up the money saved on an EV.
I'm curious how far it could actually tow something like a camper without having the battery totally die on it anyway. Most camp grounds worth my while are over 200 miles away with no place to charge.
It's possible to clear the roads in winter enough for it to work. It's just that no jurisdiction I have ever lived in has done that because it would be incredibly expansive for a Canadian province to do that everywhere.
You know what that's called? That's called playing people. Elon Musk is playing people because he's smart enough to know what people will think yet he does it anyway.
How do you live in the world without acknowledging that most people are not that smart? I agree licensing needs to be more strict. They need to have extended licensing for drivers of cars with any kind of autonomy. And when they can figure out how 'engaged' a person is, they should be required to activate it.
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So it goes below -3? Because to me that is tropical. Just speaking from personal experience.
Lol it only goes down to -3C in Norway; that's going to melt just from the tires. I'm talking about -40C!
You're saying Norway doesn't have plowed roads? When it snows in Norway they drive through the snow out of necessity?
People keep saying that, but the extra trips I need to make because of charging in between, the rentals for long trips, and the air travel for places I could have driven will easily eat up the money saved on an EV.
I drive my SUV in 2-3 feet of snow regularly without a problem. Would I have a problem with a model X?
I'm curious how far it could actually tow something like a camper without having the battery totally die on it anyway. Most camp grounds worth my while are over 200 miles away with no place to charge.
from your driveway?
It's possible to clear the roads in winter enough for it to work. It's just that no jurisdiction I have ever lived in has done that because it would be incredibly expansive for a Canadian province to do that everywhere.
You know what that's called? That's called playing people. Elon Musk is playing people because he's smart enough to know what people will think yet he does it anyway.
How do you live in the world without acknowledging that most people are not that smart? I agree licensing needs to be more strict. They need to have extended licensing for drivers of cars with any kind of autonomy. And when they can figure out how 'engaged' a person is, they should be required to activate it.
Ok well I guess we'll see how they do first blizzard then. They may be in the ditch with the first and second year drivers.
They allowed Google to do what they did, they allowed Facebook to do what they did, and I was like, "WHAT, REALLY?"
Now the bird has flown the coop.
Meanwhile, Florida is investigating two more Tesla crashes.. Isn't this ratio to Teslas on the road getting kind of high for $80K vehicle range?
There aren't even the correct sensors available for a fully autonomous vehicle. Maybe with a $2 million array.
So people think they can get in their car and set a direction and set a speed and it will go there. Thus making Autopilot a BAD FUCKING NAME.
I read this yesterday and immediately concluded that Elon Musk must not care if he kills people. Flamethrowers were just the beginning.
Lane assist doesn't even work in the winter here, even if there is a frosty/gravelly haze on the road in the middle. And winter is ALWAYS. Fail!
Clearly Tesla would be level 5 autonomous by now if people didn't keep setting them back by setting fire to their showrooms.
Ask yourself, would Donald Trump do this??
People have to get their raises somehow.
But that's not at all what I was talking about.
R&D? You mean for the buttons that they are now cancelling?
Ask yourself why you're so afraid of negative language to describe the same thing. In the eyes of many, this is a handout.
So lower taxes for all them, if you can do that and still pay for city services. Otherwise you have to accept it or enter a race to the bottom.
But how good are these jobs, really? Are they jobs people want to do?