Right now, the pizza comes to my door. I don't need to put shoes on or a coat. This customer experience is worse. Why would I choose it when there are other pizza deliveries that will still deliver to the door.
Yes, the temptation to buy something you can't really afford is one of the downsides of credit. It's far more significant than some off percent you can invent on a particular deal.
Even if there's a zero interest deal, I still buy outright. It means I know I can afford it. And I have no risk of falling foul of something I didn't notice in the small print.
I feel the opposite. Now I own, I can do what I like with the place. Decorate, refurbish, knock a wall down. I don't need to ask someone else's permission.
As to travelling, when I was renting, I considered the rent on my home was wasted when I was travelling. Now that I own my home, there's no rent on my home to keep up when I'm not there.
I also don't need to worry if I were to lose my job. I don't need to scrape rent together, or face being homeless. I have the absolute security of having my own roof above my head. And that makes you feel free too.
Sell it? If I HAVE to sell it quickly I'll enter it in an auction.
Of course I don't want insurance. Insurance is simply a bet. And the insurance broker is the bookmaker who's making the profit out of your bet. In the long run, over a lifetime, you save money by not insuring for risks you could easily cover yourself.
I always buy outright. Never borrow money or rent. With leasing, someone is providing you with a service over and above the simple purchasing of a thing, and you'll pay for that service. Save money by buying.
No you don't. All the trucks have drivers. It's just that whilst the platoon is operating, the drivers in the following trucks don't do anything. But they have to be there for when the platoon breaks up.
They don't form a platoon till they are on the motorway. They break the platoon before they leave the motorway. Whilst they are in a platoon, they stay in the nearside lane.
No, they only give Americans trouble. In Europe they are everywhere and very routine. And I'm staggered that two lane roundabouts were considered a weird thing. They are very, very common too. Outside of America.
That's because you don't charge it to 100%. The fuller the battery is, the slower it charges, so you don't hang around for an hours of that time to trickle charge the last few percent whilst you are just stopping off on a journey.
Not only that, but charging to 100% all the time ill harm the battery. Do it too often and the Tesla will pop up a warning. There's a setting to tell it when to stop charging, and you do not leave it set permanently to 100%.
Any Tesla owner can tell you this. Including your friend.
Like I said, a supercharger charging session is typically 30-40 minutes.
If you've found any such thing, then it's some guy on the internet who doesn't know shit saying it. This is not a matter that's in question. There was an actual real life battery swap station.
Real life limes, for real life customers: 15 minutes for the first time a battery swap is done. 5 minutes for subsequent swaps on the same car.
Because you claimed: "Yeah yeah, stop and charge, but given it takes a few hours to charge a car, and this will supposedly have a MUCH bigger battery pack"
And yet there are not an undue amount of people getting hurt due to AutoPilot. i.e. There are not more people being killed or injured in Teslas with AutoPilot than in cars without AutoPilot.
And there are no shortage of people interested in AutoPilot.
Actually I think you just need to be able to recognise emergency vehicles that have their flashing lights on. Pretty easy as they have lots of markings in addition to their lights.
When one of them is behind you, as a human driver you find a safe place to pull over and slow down so it can pass. If instead of passing it keeps following you, then you know you are the one they're after and if you;re law abiding, you come to a stop.
Good post. Except for the last paragraph. Because you personally love driving, I think you are underestimating the number of people that don't take any pleasure in driving - at least real driving, much of which is stop/go taking place in congested traffic, down the same route twice a day every working day.
If cost wasn't an object I'd say most people would want a system that could driver the commute for them. And inevitably cost will not be an object for long.
You can play "what if" this and that. But it's not only Tesla that tried it and found no interest. There's been other companies that have explored the battery swap idea. No one has ever found any enthusiasm for it amongst consumers.
People feel that they own their car, including it's battery. They don't want a battery of unknown history replacing the one they have.
Any issues with MobileEye is irrelevant now, as current AutoPilot is completely different. Yes in some ways it's still catching up on features. But you don't know from that old source that there is any motorcycle problem in current Teslas. And it certainly does nothing to confirm LynwoodRoosters fabricated claim that they miss motorcycles 10 times more often than human drivers.
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The real pizza places around me don't deliver at all. And they still aren't as expensive as Dominos.
Not in the UK. Dominos pizzas are about the most expensive of the take away and delivery pizza companies. Their pizzas are stupid prices.
Right now, the pizza comes to my door. I don't need to put shoes on or a coat. This customer experience is worse. Why would I choose it when there are other pizza deliveries that will still deliver to the door.
It would have to be significantly cheaper...
Yes, the temptation to buy something you can't really afford is one of the downsides of credit. It's far more significant than some off percent you can invent on a particular deal.
Even if there's a zero interest deal, I still buy outright. It means I know I can afford it. And I have no risk of falling foul of something I didn't notice in the small print.
I feel the opposite. Now I own, I can do what I like with the place. Decorate, refurbish, knock a wall down. I don't need to ask someone else's permission.
As to travelling, when I was renting, I considered the rent on my home was wasted when I was travelling. Now that I own my home, there's no rent on my home to keep up when I'm not there.
I also don't need to worry if I were to lose my job. I don't need to scrape rent together, or face being homeless. I have the absolute security of having my own roof above my head. And that makes you feel free too.
Sell it? If I HAVE to sell it quickly I'll enter it in an auction.
Of course I don't want insurance. Insurance is simply a bet. And the insurance broker is the bookmaker who's making the profit out of your bet. In the long run, over a lifetime, you save money by not insuring for risks you could easily cover yourself.
As we've seen there's always a catch. In the stated case Apple make their extra money out of mandatory Applecare+.
That's the one exception. When I need something now that I can't afford. But that's in the knowledge that I'm losing money, and losing freedom.
Nope. That scheme requires that you take out Applecare+ insurance. That's where you are paying extra.
I always buy outright. Never borrow money or rent. With leasing, someone is providing you with a service over and above the simple purchasing of a thing, and you'll pay for that service. Save money by buying.
No you don't. All the trucks have drivers. It's just that whilst the platoon is operating, the drivers in the following trucks don't do anything. But they have to be there for when the platoon breaks up.
There are no red lights on a motorway.
They don't form a platoon till they are on the motorway. They break the platoon before they leave the motorway.
Whilst they are in a platoon, they stay in the nearside lane.
They have the answer for slip roads. Increase the gaps in the platoon as they approach slip roads, then close them up again.
No, they only give Americans trouble. In Europe they are everywhere and very routine. And I'm staggered that two lane roundabouts were considered a weird thing. They are very, very common too. Outside of America.
That's because you don't charge it to 100%. The fuller the battery is, the slower it charges, so you don't hang around for an hours of that time to trickle charge the last few percent whilst you are just stopping off on a journey.
Not only that, but charging to 100% all the time ill harm the battery. Do it too often and the Tesla will pop up a warning. There's a setting to tell it when to stop charging, and you do not leave it set permanently to 100%.
Any Tesla owner can tell you this. Including your friend.
Like I said, a supercharger charging session is typically 30-40 minutes.
If you've found any such thing, then it's some guy on the internet who doesn't know shit saying it. This is not a matter that's in question. There was an actual real life battery swap station.
Real life limes, for real life customers:
15 minutes for the first time a battery swap is done.
5 minutes for subsequent swaps on the same car.
https://electrek.co/2016/05/10...
Because you claimed: "Yeah yeah, stop and charge, but given it takes a few hours to charge a car, and this will supposedly have a MUCH bigger battery pack"
Repeat:
"it takes a few hours to charge a car"
I corrected your comically wrong assertion.
I didn't claim any such thing. Learn to read you complete fucking imbecile.
And yet there are not an undue amount of people getting hurt due to AutoPilot. i.e. There are not more people being killed or injured in Teslas with AutoPilot than in cars without AutoPilot.
And there are no shortage of people interested in AutoPilot.
Actually I think you just need to be able to recognise emergency vehicles that have their flashing lights on. Pretty easy as they have lots of markings in addition to their lights.
When one of them is behind you, as a human driver you find a safe place to pull over and slow down so it can pass. If instead of passing it keeps following you, then you know you are the one they're after and if you;re law abiding, you come to a stop.
Automated driving can do the same.
Good post. Except for the last paragraph. Because you personally love driving, I think you are underestimating the number of people that don't take any pleasure in driving - at least real driving, much of which is stop/go taking place in congested traffic, down the same route twice a day every working day.
If cost wasn't an object I'd say most people would want a system that could driver the commute for them. And inevitably cost will not be an object for long.
You can play "what if" this and that. But it's not only Tesla that tried it and found no interest. There's been other companies that have explored the battery swap idea. No one has ever found any enthusiasm for it amongst consumers.
People feel that they own their car, including it's battery. They don't want a battery of unknown history replacing the one they have.
Any issues with MobileEye is irrelevant now, as current AutoPilot is completely different. Yes in some ways it's still catching up on features. But you don't know from that old source that there is any motorcycle problem in current Teslas. And it certainly does nothing to confirm LynwoodRoosters fabricated claim that they miss motorcycles 10 times more often than human drivers.
I see that you are employed by the oil industry. You must be sucking the cocks of the Cock brothers.