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If we accept your math of 780 accidents per lifetime, then EVERY SINGLE FSD DRIVER would have been in an accident this year. Or several. Clearly that's not true, and with it goes this comparison.

1% savings from 300 would be 297, not 290.

so in fairness to you, you did say That ' mark for foot wasn't familiar to us, read instead as 0-60mph. That said, the conversation was about drag performance, and you're asserting that the A5 2.0 is faster off the line than a M3P. Though 60' escapes the disadvantage of gear shifting...

When I took the ERC class long ago (BMW purchase includes a voucher for either MSF class), there were two Harley owners debating the safety of taking their bikes out of the garage on a misty day. Harley seems to have the ride or die types, that logs tens of thousands per year, and then the...

was it not nonsense when it was on the upper right corner? Looking down and looking right all not the same.

I put in over 100k miles on motorcycles, and somewhere over 250k on MT cars. I still had the Outback with the 6MT for about 6 weeks after getting the Y, before sending it to a suitable snow state where my mother can use it to take the miles off her trucks. And nope, don't miss shifting...

uh, which model Audi are you claiming to do 1.7 times with ease? And when you said heavily modded, did that involve strapping a rocket engine to its ass?

love the effort, but the fact that run 1 and 2 at 45psi show nearly the same delta as 45 vs 35 means no conclusion can be drawn here, and potentially challenges the trust we can place on the short term data coming from the Energy display. It could just demonstrate the number of uncontrollable...

It might have been fun to take them up on it, and then schedule the first oil change and see what happens. Back to the recent posts on the 3/Y display: Over the past year, I've untrained the constant looking for the nonexistent screen behind the wheel. But still not a fan of the location...

nah...people who live in higher cost zips subsidize you. Basically those in NY and CA. It's fine to admit being a bit parasitic, but it's not the fairness you suggest it is. It was an attack on blue states. But back on topic, the AMT reached well beyond the top quintile of earners...

sigh....it's not like the toll lanes on 580 were recently implemented, like the stretch on the peninsula on 101. No CHP cop should be clueless at this point....or ever really. File the written dispute, complain to the local CHP office about this waste of everyone's time. Maybe throw a bone...

AMT was a much bigger issue in 2017 than 2018 onward, as the Trump tax bill took effect and the deductions that pushed middle tier tax payers into AMT were mostly eliminated.

Dealers have long played this game. I remember nearly 30 years ago having a dealer pretend I was the unreasonable one for wanting a Toy Truck 4x4 with 6k miles on it for less than the price my mother paid for a similar new model 3 weeks earlier. She paid 18.3, they wanted 20+. And would not...

the onus remains on you to contribute a useful alternative. It's your circus, mate.

but no more than anyone else who bough a popular car or truck and paid a 10k ADM. It's hard to predict when bubbles pop, and quite a few have been broke trying to short the market. In my case, I needed to get my existing vehicle (subaru) to my mother before winter. At least I was on...

I also believe there was a gap year for the EVSE in 2022, while solar still had a 26% rebate. Both went to 30% with the IRA, and potentially immediately. Now I had my solar company both slightly expand my system and install the EVSE module to my solar inverter on the same job, so I'm going to...

People waited up to 18 months on the potential of the 4860s that still seems to be more a benefit for the company than the customer. We also had the rolling transition from Atoms to Ryzens, the headlights, the wiper heaters, and the shift toward AS tires on the P. And at the same time...

I still use an XS, though I've dropped it a number of times and cracked the glass on the back, so I am likely to change it out (demote it to foreign travel duty). New models have higher resolution, brighter screens, better cameras, and much faster processors, which don't matter for phone calls...

well, there's still the possibility someone made the kilo/lb error on the first doc on the US page and then the next person propagated it. Pulling any batteries off makes sense regardless. If some jerk manages to break the lock, make them pedal away at full effort.

We all know that. What the OP didn't understand is that any talk of battery longevity defines it as the latter. I'm sure you know this too, but you want to really mash against the grain here about some.....thing. Surely there's a thread more in need of quotations from the dictionary.

if you have to rely on the dictionary to make a technical argument, you're usually in deep waters.

denial is strong in your veins, man. We all saw what you wrote. You're wrong.

unfortunately, you have quite a wait before you can benefit from it. If you have any stocks or the like you wouldn't mind selling now, you could balance it out. If you understanding your withholding patterns well, you could adjust them, but that's hard to do if your income varies and the state...

but apparently not at business school.

the sock puppet dates back decades before new AI stuff. With EVs in particular, there are a lot of industry shills, self interested mechanics, and senior citizens with too much free time. AI tools do pose the threat to make this sort of behavior even lower effort. The IRA is going to make...

umm....the point of blinkers is for others to see your intent. The point of side mirrors is for you to see, though to actually make a lane change, you need to look over. So they have nothing to do with each other. There was another thread on this, perhaps 2 months ago? I think your legal...

wow - 3 weeks have passed and you missed the beatings? I'm guessing the recent roller coaster of Tesla price decreases and increases was rough for you. But surely by now you can tell us the proper course they should take. It's basic economics, right?

hey- this is super useful pointer. I had weighed renting a truck from HD by the hour (plus mileage, I think) to do a haul off of garden debris but was able to borrow a nephew's vehicle. But at $15/day, perfectly cheap for the occasional awkward piece of furniture or exercise equipment...

Who would those people be? Even Cathie Wood isn't that bullish. But let's do the math. TSLA at 40,000 would mean a market cap of 126.6T $USD. The market cap of the entire S&P 500 is about 35T. So no, this isn't going to happen.

6 months ago, there was no way that Tesla would sell the CT at the specs they floated for the price they suggested. These days, not so obvious. But...a used R1T should sell below MSRP, shouldn't it? Esp when a lot of people are still getting them on the cheaper, pre March 2022 pricing...

I think humans are better at multiplication than division. If you get 3.1 miles per kWh, and each one costs you 20 cents (or 3 or 54), it's more straightforward to do in the head than working with 320 or 260 Wh/miles. Also, a lot of muscle memory around miles per gallon. At least in the...

my cell phones last 3-4 years. If you fully used your EV battery daily, you'd be driving 80-90k miles per year, and 4 years would be longer than most cars' lifespan. back to the point - 10 5% charges is less than a single full cycle. They are not the same.

So cutting to the chase, Rivian does not lose 160k on each vehicle. Got it. (already knew this)

I see that, though I generally buy cars to own for 10+ years. I'm not thinking about selling it in 3 years. And the OP, with 30k driven per year, will more rapidly incur depreciation to the point where it doesn't matter. On a side note, I'd expect a lower cost gas powered MB to depreciate...

what about the (moderate) difference in the acceleration? For my car, the driver is clearly the problem, esp at the beginning. My average is 320/mile. When the tires do wear down, I will contemplate the switch to a 20" rim, esp if it means better pricing options for tires in that size, or if...

This is not correct. Charge cycles are not charge cycles, independent of how much juice is applied. With EVs, where the manufacturers have great incentive not to give bad advice, the messaging is generally ABC (always be charging), within a belt of 20-80%. But the obvious solution to this...

but isn't this a case of sunken cost fallacy? Whether or not it was a mistake, the prior car was purchased. But the decision is made on future costs and savings. Emotionally, I think the DMV fees are harder to let go of, as CA charges full sales tax + 2% for registration. Some states...

but only once all the other makers combined make more vehicles available for actual purchase. Like you, I had multiple orders in. Tesla delivered in 6 weeks (11 months ago). The other is still "2024." This suggests Tesla will first feel real market pressure in 2025.

compare the expense Rivian will incur to build the second plant in GA with what Tesla spent to acquire NUMMI and tell me that this wasn't a lucky circumstance. Meanwhile, I hope Quad will show me the parts list that make an R1T 240k to produce.

what an ironic post.

Except no one tows, so this is essentially irrelevant. The trucks don't suffer the hit when carrying cargo, it's just the trailers that don't pencil out well for the people who want to travel the country with a 5th wheel for some reason. As for Rivian losing money per car - name any new...

where was the math on that? Without knowing the OP's power rate, that seems like a guess. Baltimore averages 17 cents/kwh. But, seems like with the right chargers, there is a TOU plan that would allow for 3.75 cents/kwh...

> Reiterating - hi, Pot!

And yet, the yahoos that insist on backing in ARE a threat to me as I walk through the parking lot. All the Fing time. You already state you agree that parking assist is inadequate, yet you still try to argue it's better to back up into a narrow space where you have compromised visibility...

yeah,. that was some funny BS.

and why does it seem like the folks who insist on doing this do so because they're such terrible drivers to start with? As to the logic - why back in to the narrow space rather than back out to the giant open space?

So does anyone in the thread use PA and like it? My temptation would be if it could reliably navigate my very narrow garage door (1.5" to spare on each side with mirrors out - ~87") and stop more reliable at the right spot inside. I used a hanging plushie to mark the spot, but I often go...

It's like he walked out of court (yet another jury on drugs) and said, RAISE AWAY! As an 2022 owner, great. But it certainly is more fuel for the cranky types in the thread.

once you've paid a non refundable fee to place the order, there is a contract. Many of the other brands that have taken orders for 2024 are reserving the right to reset pricing, but they then have to give back deposits for anyone that bails out. Last year, when the Tesla backlog was so long...

If it doesn't support WPA3, it's antiquated. And if you don't have devices that need the reach of 2.4, turn it off. Keeps lurkers away, and less congestion for your neighbors. Are you sure it doesn't have a 5 radio? The trouble cases people had were addressed by separating the SSID...