The problem comes when dealerships use maintenance as a cash cow. Most dealerships make very little money selling cars. Most of their income comes from financing and service.
I bought my Tesla online without going through a dealership. I was able to specify exactly what I wanted in the car. Furthermore, their goal is to not make a profit off of service. I have no complaints about the service I've had, it's far better than what I've experienced with dealerships.
Granted, I can't negotiate down the price of the car. Then again, when I bought my Prius years ago and that car was in high demand it was impossible to negotiate down the price and in fact many dealerships were charging a premium. It took me 6 months of waiting to eventually get my Prius with the options I wanted. It was my 3rd choice for color. I could have gotten one much sooner as long as it was white or possibly black.
I also waited about 6 months for my Tesla, but unlike my Prius, I got exactly what I wanted.
I don't miss the Toyota dealership frequently trying to push unnecessary service or raping me over the coals for flaws in my original vehicle. For example, the HID headlights burned out just after 3 years and though I had a 7 year warranty they wanted to charge me $340 per headlight to change it, charging $200 per-bulb despite the fact that I could buy the same brand-new bulb on Ebay for $50. It was a known flaw in the bulbs. Some customers got screwed further when the dealership charged to replace the inverters as well (which were not the problem).
Then there's the center console going out. The dealership charges at least $2000 in labor to replace it. I just watched a Youtube video on how to replace it and it takes roughly 20 minutes to do it yourself.
In the long run it makes sense to get the loan, since the cash not paid out immediately can earn interest higher than the loan interest rate. You end up with more money in the end by not paying cash.
They should have pre-treated the surfaces where this stuff can grow with something like Biocote or some other silver or copper infused coating. These coatings work quite well at killing bacteria without being harmful to humans.
Switzerland is not difficult to explain. Most of the guns are issued by the government but the ammunition is very tightly controlled. Their gun laws are also much more strict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Guns and ammunition are much more tightly regulated in Switzerland than they are in the US.
Your example of Switzerland is flawed. While guns are ubiquitous in Switzerland, ammunition is not, especially for the government issued guns. For target practice with the government issues guns, one picks up the ammunition at the gun range and it is accounted for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Higher-end routers have hardware dedicated to doing things like deep packet inspection and modification with less software overhead. For example, I work at Cavium and the CPUs I work with have a lot of dedicated packet processing hardware designed to offload much of that processing to the hardware which has many dedicated engines.
I work at Cavium on the SDK team (I do all the bootloader stuff for their MIPS chips). The Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite uses one of our old (2nd gen CN5020) low-end dual core chips and is able to handle 1M packets/second by running the packet processing on a dedicated core and Linux on the other core. Our current generation (4th gen) is far faster. I work with chips from 4 up to 48x2 cores (48 cores, 2 chips running in NUMA). There's a lot of support for offloading packet processing in our chips, for example, directing packet flows to different groups of CPU cores. There's also various engines built-in to the chips for things like compression, pattern matching, deep packet inspection, encryption, RAID calculations and more. We also are selling NIC cards (Liquid I/O) which can run Linux on the NIC card as well as dedicated software that can offload a lot. For example, it can perform all the SSL, VPN and firewall stuff on the NIC. I'm working on some of the new ones now. I'd love to see some inexpensive eval boards available, especially with our CN73XX or even CN70xx chip. Even our low-end quad core CN71xx can handle 10Gbps of traffic.
My employer deals with this on their multi-core MIPS processors. What we do is we can run Linux on one set of cores and dedicated applications on other cores. These applications offload most of the TCP/IP stack and only pass the relevant traffic to the kernel. The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite uses one of our lowest-end chips and handles 1M packets/second. Our higher-end chips can easily handle far more packets. Then again, the dedicated cores are also able to take much better advantage of the hardware offload support for forwarding and filtering. Even without using the dedicated special application we can handle 40Gbps or more of traffic on the high-end chips. We can also handle stuff like IPSec at these rates due to built-in encryption and hashing instructions if coded properly.
Having the right NIC card can also help since some NIC cards can offload things like TCP/IP segmentation and reassembly. I've also dealt with small gigabit switch chips that can offload stuff like NAT but Linux can't really take advantage of that as-is.
There's a lot of room for improvement. Some years ago I was doing performance analysis for Atheros with respect to CPU cache utilization. The biggest bottleneck was the fact that the transmit path in the Linux networking stack would only pass a single packet at a time. Batch processing of packets for WiFi makes a HUGE difference since groups of packets need to be aggregated for 802.11N. It also would allow for more efficient packet processing for non-wireless as well. There are a lot of other areas that also could be improved.
The city I live in has a very low gun crime rate (and overall a low crime rate) as well and I suspect that the level of gun ownership is fairly low. From the crime reports I read, most of the crime is caused by people from other cities, especially Oakland. We also have a good police force, who unlike many other forces isn't afraid to leave their jurisdiction to arrest people in other cities like Oakland who commit crimes here.
The difference is that ammunition in Switzerland is strictly regulated. A gun without ammunition is no more useful than a club. There is also training involved. I doubt the average gang banger in the US has any sort of formal weapons training and thinks it's cool to hold a gun sideways to shoot.
The car has active suspension so it can raise and lower itself. My model S does that. It automatically lowers at highway speeds and if I tell it to raise up, it remembers the location so it will do that again the next time you hit that location.
I just drove my Tesla model S over 500 miles yesterday from central Oregon to the Bay Area, stopping at a few superchargers along the way so that isn't a big problem. It added about 3 hours to a 9 hour trip. Note that my model S is an early one. The newer ones charge faster than mine does. While there are still a number of places that are difficult to go, the number of places I can go is rapidly increasing as Tesla continues to build out their supercharger network. They started by building out the most traveled routes and are now building out the less traveled routes.
Sadly the crooks in congress made it illegal to import foreign drugs which often are a fraction of the price compared to the local supply that more than likely comes off of the same production line.
You do realize that the fact that they can't negotiate the prices of pharmaceuticals is due to the republicans and the Bush administration. That occurred before Obama took office with the Medicare part D aspect and now they're cashing in. I just read an article today about how the drug for treating toxoplasmosis went from $13.50/tablet to $750 overnight despite being a 62 year old drug. The drug companies are basically price gouging the US public. In another case they raised the price of Doxycycline, an antibiotic from $20/bottle to $1849/bottle.
I did similar stuff as a kid, but I didn't bring stuff to school because I knew they'd be to dumb to understand the stuff I did. I took everything apart, and I had a running disassembled digital clock running (this was in the late 1970s/early 1980s). Later I moved on to more advanced stuff than just disassembling everything and fixing stuff. I taught myself assembly language and started writing all sorts of hacks and whatnot (back then the IBM technical reference manual included a full BIOS listing and schematics). I now know a lot of stuff I did as a kid was a major shock hazard (if not a fire hazard), and I did frequently shock myself with mains voltage.
Of course I recall that with the digital clock I disassembled I was able to do stuff like put it in 24 hour mode which it couldn't do until I got my paws on it.
I was soldering CPU turbo boards for the Heathkit H89 Z80 based computer when I was 11 years old which my father sold. The small board would replace one of the chips and allow the computer to switch to 4MHz under software control.
I agree. I own a Tesla model S P85 (for 2 1/2 years now). Tesla brings a lot more to the table than just the car. They also have a nation-wide charging network that nobody else comes close to. Next week I will be driving from the SF Bay Area to Seattle, WA. I plan to take a leisurely drive, stopping in Grants Pass for the night. On my drive to Grants Pass I will spend less than 90 minutes charging out of about 8 hours of driving. Given how most superchargers are near malls and other amenities I've found that often I grab something to eat and my car is fully charged before I am.
Besides the charging network, Tesla is also addressing the battery supply with their gigafactory, which should significantly reduce the cost of their batteries. On top of that they're also offsetting their superchargers with solar power and are now starting to add grid battery storage as well to significantly cut peak power usage.
Nobody else comes anywhere close. Their service and support has been excellent, though I've also heard that Porsche is also quite good. Even though my car was one of the early ones manufactured (VIN in the low 5000s) I've had very few problems and no major problems. Most were just squeaks and rattles, which they quickly fixed. They've also made very rapid improvements to the car in the 2 1/2 years since I bought mine. It may look the same on the outside, but there are a lot of new features under the hood and Tesla has addressed problems quickly in their production run, not waiting for 6-month or yearly intervals like many manufacturers.
I have a 100A circuit for my house and another 100A circuit for my garage for charging my Tesla. At 80A (max continuous load is 80%) it still takes 5 1/2 hours to fully charge from empty, but that's drawing 20 KW.
The Tesla superchargers typically are wired to 3-phase at 480V in the US. In Europe 3-phase is much more common from my understanding. Tesla maxes out at 120 KW in the US (135 in Europe) though I've heard plans to upgrade it to 150 KW.
None of the existing charging standards can handle 300 KW. Tesla is currently the highest and they top out at 120 KW (135 KW in Europe). Tesla is talking of upping theirs to 150 KW in the near future. CCS and ChaDeMo talk about handling up to 100 KW but most charging stations only handle a fraction of that. Tesla has a ChaDeMo adapter but customers have been complaining that it causes a lot of ChaDeMo chargers to overheat when they're asked to pull 45 KW continuously.
I have had my car for 2 1/2 years so far and have over 31K miles on it. I have not noticed any degradation in range in my P85.
Not easily. With Tesla you're getting a lot more than just a car. You're also getting access to the largest network of rapid chargers along major routes. Next week I'm driving from the SF Bay Area up to Seattle in my Tesla. At least from the Bay Area to Grant's Pass OR I'll spend around 90 minutes charging for that route with most stops being 20-30 minutes. Right now I can drive from San Diego to Edmonton Canada or across the country to the East Coast on Tesla's superchargers. There's already a huge amount of charging infrastructure in place with more going online quite rapidly. There is nothing equivalent right now for non-Tesla EVs. Sure, there's a lot of ChaDeMo chargers in urban centers but there are many places where it's quite difficult to go. I have a friend with a Leaf and it takes him at least a couple of days to reach the Oregon border from the SF Bay Area since he has to spend a significant amount of time charging at RV parks since there's no infrastructure between major urban areas.
Also, I don't think there are many CCS chargers that could output anywhere near enough to charge the Porsche to 80% in 15 minutes. Tesla's supercharger network outputs 120KW (135 in Europe). Also, unlike the mish-mash of CCS and ChaDeMo chargers, they're being installed along major routes. It will be at least several years until CCS catches up with where Tesla's network is now. As it is, Tesla owners with the ChaDeMo adapter have been complaining that many ChaDeMo chargers can't even handle 45KW without overheating (even in the dead of winter when it's 0F outside).
Tesla also will have the battery manufacturing capacity to significantly cut prices on the batteries. Additionally, they're already starting to offset their charging stations with solar and grid-tied batteries to significantly reduce peak electricity usage and cut costs. Also, nobody has talked about the price of the Porsche. You can bet that it will be a lot more expensive than Tesla.
Out of all of the accidents I have been involved in over almost 30 years of driving, technology like ABS, automatic emergency braking and stability control would have prevented just about all of them. In most cases it was the other driver's fault (the one case it was my fault I was young and had a parent screaming at me when traffic suddenly stopped (AEB would have prevented that one if both my car and the one behind me had it). I've been rear-ended twice (both times totaling the car) because I had to stop suddenly and the person behind me wasn't so fast. The only one that wouldn't have been prevented was when an Asian driver who spoke little English panicked when trying to change lanes and side-swiped a bunch of cars (I was stopped in an exit lane). Even then, it's possible that stability control might have helped, though most of this I attribute to a very inexperienced driver. These systems work because they can react far faster than a human can or doing things that are just about impossible to do otherwise (i.e. stability control controlling each wheel's braking independently, ABS managing each wheel's brake independently for maximum stopping power while maintaining control). A properly designed AEB system can recognize and respond to an emergency stopping situation far faster than a human can.
I'm mixed on traction control. My Toyota Prius had it and it sucked. I'd go over a pothole and lose most of my power. On my Tesla it's not very noticeable other than the blinking indicator when it kicks in. Since the Tesla responds instantly with TC (about 1000 times per second according to Tesla) it's able to apply maximum power to the wheels without slipping, much like how ABS works for braking My Prius, on the other hand, behaved as if it suddenly lost most of it's puny power for about a second.
I've never owned a car with AEB though I'm pretty sure my next one will have it. Hopefully I'll never have to use it. Given how fast technology is moving forward, my next car will likely also have self-driving capability since at this point when I eventually replace my car it will likely be another Tesla.
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The problem comes when dealerships use maintenance as a cash cow. Most dealerships make very little money selling cars. Most of their income comes from financing and service.
I bought my Tesla online without going through a dealership. I was able to specify exactly what I wanted in the car. Furthermore, their goal is to not make a profit off of service. I have no complaints about the service I've had, it's far better than what I've experienced with dealerships.
Granted, I can't negotiate down the price of the car. Then again, when I bought my Prius years ago and that car was in high demand it was impossible to negotiate down the price and in fact many dealerships were charging a premium. It took me 6 months of waiting to eventually get my Prius with the options I wanted. It was my 3rd choice for color. I could have gotten one much sooner as long as it was white or possibly black.
I also waited about 6 months for my Tesla, but unlike my Prius, I got exactly what I wanted.
I don't miss the Toyota dealership frequently trying to push unnecessary service or raping me over the coals for flaws in my original vehicle. For example, the HID headlights burned out just after 3 years and though I had a 7 year warranty they wanted to charge me $340 per headlight to change it, charging $200 per-bulb despite the fact that I could buy the same brand-new bulb on Ebay for $50. It was a known flaw in the bulbs. Some customers got screwed further when the dealership charged to replace the inverters as well (which were not the problem).
Then there's the center console going out. The dealership charges at least $2000 in labor to replace it. I just watched a Youtube video on how to replace it and it takes roughly 20 minutes to do it yourself.
In the long run it makes sense to get the loan, since the cash not paid out immediately can earn interest higher than the loan interest rate. You end up with more money in the end by not paying cash.
They should have pre-treated the surfaces where this stuff can grow with something like Biocote or some other silver or copper infused coating. These coatings work quite well at killing bacteria without being harmful to humans.
Why do you think Tesla developed the automatic charger? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Switzerland is not difficult to explain. Most of the guns are issued by the government but the ammunition is very tightly controlled. Their gun laws are also much more strict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Guns and ammunition are much more tightly regulated in Switzerland than they are in the US.
Your example of Switzerland is flawed. While guns are ubiquitous in Switzerland, ammunition is not, especially for the government issued guns. For target practice with the government issues guns, one picks up the ammunition at the gun range and it is accounted for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Surprisingly, the percentage of people killed by guns in Mexico is only slightly higher than it is in the US. Mexico has 11.17 gun deaths per 100,000 people, the US has 10.64, and that's with all the drug cartels fighting it out in Mexico.
Look up the 410Nv. It has 4 SFP+ ports on it.
Higher-end routers have hardware dedicated to doing things like deep packet inspection and modification with less software overhead. For example, I work at Cavium and the CPUs I work with have a lot of dedicated packet processing hardware designed to offload much of that processing to the hardware which has many dedicated engines.
I work at Cavium on the SDK team (I do all the bootloader stuff for their MIPS chips). The Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite uses one of our old (2nd gen CN5020) low-end dual core chips and is able to handle 1M packets/second by running the packet processing on a dedicated core and Linux on the other core. Our current generation (4th gen) is far faster. I work with chips from 4 up to 48x2 cores (48 cores, 2 chips running in NUMA). There's a lot of support for offloading packet processing in our chips, for example, directing packet flows to different groups of CPU cores. There's also various engines built-in to the chips for things like compression, pattern matching, deep packet inspection, encryption, RAID calculations and more. We also are selling NIC cards (Liquid I/O) which can run Linux on the NIC card as well as dedicated software that can offload a lot. For example, it can perform all the SSL, VPN and firewall stuff on the NIC. I'm working on some of the new ones now. I'd love to see some inexpensive eval boards available, especially with our CN73XX or even CN70xx chip. Even our low-end quad core CN71xx can handle 10Gbps of traffic.
My employer deals with this on their multi-core MIPS processors. What we do is we can run Linux on one set of cores and dedicated applications on other cores. These applications offload most of the TCP/IP stack and only pass the relevant traffic to the kernel. The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite uses one of our lowest-end chips and handles 1M packets/second. Our higher-end chips can easily handle far more packets. Then again, the dedicated cores are also able to take much better advantage of the hardware offload support for forwarding and filtering. Even without using the dedicated special application we can handle 40Gbps or more of traffic on the high-end chips. We can also handle stuff like IPSec at these rates due to built-in encryption and hashing instructions if coded properly.
Having the right NIC card can also help since some NIC cards can offload things like TCP/IP segmentation and reassembly. I've also dealt with small gigabit switch chips that can offload stuff like NAT but Linux can't really take advantage of that as-is.
There's a lot of room for improvement. Some years ago I was doing performance analysis for Atheros with respect to CPU cache utilization. The biggest bottleneck was the fact that the transmit path in the Linux networking stack would only pass a single packet at a time. Batch processing of packets for WiFi makes a HUGE difference since groups of packets need to be aggregated for 802.11N. It also would allow for more efficient packet processing for non-wireless as well. There are a lot of other areas that also could be improved.
The city I live in has a very low gun crime rate (and overall a low crime rate) as well and I suspect that the level of gun ownership is fairly low. From the crime reports I read, most of the crime is caused by people from other cities, especially Oakland. We also have a good police force, who unlike many other forces isn't afraid to leave their jurisdiction to arrest people in other cities like Oakland who commit crimes here.
The difference is that ammunition in Switzerland is strictly regulated. A gun without ammunition is no more useful than a club. There is also training involved. I doubt the average gang banger in the US has any sort of formal weapons training and thinks it's cool to hold a gun sideways to shoot.
Yep. My only cost driving up to Seattle turned out to be the food I bought along the way, since I stayed with a friend half way.
The car has active suspension so it can raise and lower itself. My model S does that. It automatically lowers at highway speeds and if I tell it to raise up, it remembers the location so it will do that again the next time you hit that location.
I just drove my Tesla model S over 500 miles yesterday from central Oregon to the Bay Area, stopping at a few superchargers along the way so that isn't a big problem. It added about 3 hours to a 9 hour trip. Note that my model S is an early one. The newer ones charge faster than mine does. While there are still a number of places that are difficult to go, the number of places I can go is rapidly increasing as Tesla continues to build out their supercharger network. They started by building out the most traveled routes and are now building out the less traveled routes.
Sadly the crooks in congress made it illegal to import foreign drugs which often are a fraction of the price compared to the local supply that more than likely comes off of the same production line.
You do realize that the fact that they can't negotiate the prices of pharmaceuticals is due to the republicans and the Bush administration. That occurred before Obama took office with the Medicare part D aspect and now they're cashing in. I just read an article today about how the drug for treating toxoplasmosis went from $13.50/tablet to $750 overnight despite being a 62 year old drug. The drug companies are basically price gouging the US public. In another case they raised the price of Doxycycline, an antibiotic from $20/bottle to $1849/bottle.
I did similar stuff as a kid, but I didn't bring stuff to school because I knew they'd be to dumb to understand the stuff I did. I took everything apart, and I had a running disassembled digital clock running (this was in the late 1970s/early 1980s). Later I moved on to more advanced stuff than just disassembling everything and fixing stuff. I taught myself assembly language and started writing all sorts of hacks and whatnot (back then the IBM technical reference manual included a full BIOS listing and schematics). I now know a lot of stuff I did as a kid was a major shock hazard (if not a fire hazard), and I did frequently shock myself with mains voltage.
Of course I recall that with the digital clock I disassembled I was able to do stuff like put it in 24 hour mode which it couldn't do until I got my paws on it.
I was soldering CPU turbo boards for the Heathkit H89 Z80 based computer when I was 11 years old which my father sold. The small board would replace one of the chips and allow the computer to switch to 4MHz under software control.
When they outlaw clocks, only outlaws will be on time.
(a quote I came across here.)
I agree. I own a Tesla model S P85 (for 2 1/2 years now). Tesla brings a lot more to the table than just the car. They also have a nation-wide charging network that nobody else comes close to. Next week I will be driving from the SF Bay Area to Seattle, WA. I plan to take a leisurely drive, stopping in Grants Pass for the night. On my drive to Grants Pass I will spend less than 90 minutes charging out of about 8 hours of driving. Given how most superchargers are near malls and other amenities I've found that often I grab something to eat and my car is fully charged before I am.
Besides the charging network, Tesla is also addressing the battery supply with their gigafactory, which should significantly reduce the cost of their batteries. On top of that they're also offsetting their superchargers with solar power and are now starting to add grid battery storage as well to significantly cut peak power usage.
Nobody else comes anywhere close. Their service and support has been excellent, though I've also heard that Porsche is also quite good. Even though my car was one of the early ones manufactured (VIN in the low 5000s) I've had very few problems and no major problems. Most were just squeaks and rattles, which they quickly fixed. They've also made very rapid improvements to the car in the 2 1/2 years since I bought mine. It may look the same on the outside, but there are a lot of new features under the hood and Tesla has addressed problems quickly in their production run, not waiting for 6-month or yearly intervals like many manufacturers.
I have a 100A circuit for my house and another 100A circuit for my garage for charging my Tesla. At 80A (max continuous load is 80%) it still takes 5 1/2 hours to fully charge from empty, but that's drawing 20 KW.
The Tesla superchargers typically are wired to 3-phase at 480V in the US. In Europe 3-phase is much more common from my understanding. Tesla maxes out at 120 KW in the US (135 in Europe) though I've heard plans to upgrade it to 150 KW.
None of the existing charging standards can handle 300 KW. Tesla is currently the highest and they top out at 120 KW (135 KW in Europe). Tesla is talking of upping theirs to 150 KW in the near future. CCS and ChaDeMo talk about handling up to 100 KW but most charging stations only handle a fraction of that. Tesla has a ChaDeMo adapter but customers have been complaining that it causes a lot of ChaDeMo chargers to overheat when they're asked to pull 45 KW continuously.
I have had my car for 2 1/2 years so far and have over 31K miles on it. I have not noticed any degradation in range in my P85.
Not easily. With Tesla you're getting a lot more than just a car. You're also getting access to the largest network of rapid chargers along major routes. Next week I'm driving from the SF Bay Area up to Seattle in my Tesla. At least from the Bay Area to Grant's Pass OR I'll spend around 90 minutes charging for that route with most stops being 20-30 minutes. Right now I can drive from San Diego to Edmonton Canada or across the country to the East Coast on Tesla's superchargers. There's already a huge amount of charging infrastructure in place with more going online quite rapidly. There is nothing equivalent right now for non-Tesla EVs. Sure, there's a lot of ChaDeMo chargers in urban centers but there are many places where it's quite difficult to go. I have a friend with a Leaf and it takes him at least a couple of days to reach the Oregon border from the SF Bay Area since he has to spend a significant amount of time charging at RV parks since there's no infrastructure between major urban areas.
Also, I don't think there are many CCS chargers that could output anywhere near enough to charge the Porsche to 80% in 15 minutes. Tesla's supercharger network outputs 120KW (135 in Europe). Also, unlike the mish-mash of CCS and ChaDeMo chargers, they're being installed along major routes. It will be at least several years until CCS catches up with where Tesla's network is now. As it is, Tesla owners with the ChaDeMo adapter have been complaining that many ChaDeMo chargers can't even handle 45KW without overheating (even in the dead of winter when it's 0F outside).
Tesla also will have the battery manufacturing capacity to significantly cut prices on the batteries. Additionally, they're already starting to offset their charging stations with solar and grid-tied batteries to significantly reduce peak electricity usage and cut costs. Also, nobody has talked about the price of the Porsche. You can bet that it will be a lot more expensive than Tesla.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Out of all of the accidents I have been involved in over almost 30 years of driving, technology like ABS, automatic emergency braking and stability control would have prevented just about all of them. In most cases it was the other driver's fault (the one case it was my fault I was young and had a parent screaming at me when traffic suddenly stopped (AEB would have prevented that one if both my car and the one behind me had it). I've been rear-ended twice (both times totaling the car) because I had to stop suddenly and the person behind me wasn't so fast. The only one that wouldn't have been prevented was when an Asian driver who spoke little English panicked when trying to change lanes and side-swiped a bunch of cars (I was stopped in an exit lane). Even then, it's possible that stability control might have helped, though most of this I attribute to a very inexperienced driver. These systems work because they can react far faster than a human can or doing things that are just about impossible to do otherwise (i.e. stability control controlling each wheel's braking independently, ABS managing each wheel's brake independently for maximum stopping power while maintaining control). A properly designed AEB system can recognize and respond to an emergency stopping situation far faster than a human can.
I'm mixed on traction control. My Toyota Prius had it and it sucked. I'd go over a pothole and lose most of my power. On my Tesla it's not very noticeable other than the blinking indicator when it kicks in. Since the Tesla responds instantly with TC (about 1000 times per second according to Tesla) it's able to apply maximum power to the wheels without slipping, much like how ABS works for braking My Prius, on the other hand, behaved as if it suddenly lost most of it's puny power for about a second.
I've never owned a car with AEB though I'm pretty sure my next one will have it. Hopefully I'll never have to use it. Given how fast technology is moving forward, my next car will likely also have self-driving capability since at this point when I eventually replace my car it will likely be another Tesla.