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By themselves, recalls don't bother me. If anything, I view them in a slightly positive light. Few other products have a system where manufacturers proactively reach out and correct discovered problems across their customer base, entirely at the manufacturers expense. How the recall is...

As the GPS system was developed as a tool for the US military, it includes the capability to distort the location signaling to everyone who doesn't have a military grade GPS receiver, and I assume that's been put to use in the area of the gulf.

My guess is that although Tesla has offered to license it, the terms are far from attractive. It doesn't surprise me that the big manufacturers think it important for them to develop their own driving technology. But the fact that not even a small manufacturer has licensed it would seem to...

He's not joking. Unfortunately.

A car company should also recognize that we're a bit more forgiving of human failures, and less forgiving of robots killing people. For robotaxis to be acceptable to society, they cannot match human performance, they have to dramatically exceed it.

This seems like yet another example of immature software. The vehicle ought to know when it has a good GPS fix, and do something sensible when it loses it. Between cell towers, wifi networks, and the vehicle knowing when it's driving or not, the software should know that there's no way it went...

The absurd amounts of time that service keeps a vehicle before looking at it is a symptom of the same problem. It's one thing to be understaffed for service. It's an entirely different problem to not be able to plan the workflow, and get cars in close to when they'll have time to look at them...

Haven't tried it myself, but apparently some brands of polarized glasses have the polarization rotated by 90°, and then they don't block the HUD.

I don't know what the actual data shows, but I agree it is what should ultimately be listened to. But as far as I'm aware, we don't have good data to analyze. NHTSA has some crash reporting requirements, but they say they don't have miles driven data, and so they cannot calculate crash...

I'm not seeing the comment you're replied to, since I've made use of the ignore button. But I'll note that Musk has well documented instances of lying in response to press reports he didn't like. The one that immediately comes to mind is when Reuters reported that Tesla had canceled their low...

Indeed. I worry the most when I hear someone say how much they can relax when an autonomous system takes on the driving for them. To me, that's a strong sign that they're not going to be prepared to leap in and take over when necessary. FSD fans may be most guilty of that, but I've seen...

Well, for new destinations. But horses are decent at knowing how to take you home. But I still want more than 1 HP in a vehicle. The obvious solution is to breed teacup horses, teach them how to drive, and give one to every customer.

I think there's a lot to love about the Gravity. But I 100% disagree with you about the keycard. First off, it's ridiculous that you even need to have a keycard. No other vehicle I've owned has done that, instead the fob itself has backup access for when the fob battery is dead. Now when...

I think the market is mostly driven by short-term thinking, and I'm not sure anything about green energy is going to change much in the next handful of quarters.

Might want to clarify whether your prompt to Gemini was for Canadian law. If not, it probably recognizes you're in the bay area, and only considered the rules for the USA.

I'm coming late to this thread. I don't have any advice on how to fix the squeak, but I would advise against spraying WD40 down into the seat mechanism. WD40 contains a lot of solvents that can potentially degrade both plastics and factory applied lubricants. It also isn't designed to be a...

While there are some advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to building a vehicle, repairability can be done relatively poorly or well with any given design. Lucid's repairability isn't great right now, but as the OP notes, they're hardly the only manufacturer struggling with...

I'm not so sure. If they set up a Cosmos line in AMP-1, it's still a new assembly line. And we have no idea how staff might move from an Air or Gravity line in AMP-1 to a Cosmos line in either AMP-1 or AMP-2. I think it's far from clear that an AMP-1 assembly line would produce a higher...

I did the same to the guy who recently showed up extolling all things Tesla. It made reading the forum much more pleasant. And reading replies quoting his comments that I cannot see is sometimes oddly humorous.

I normally enjoy driving myself around. But stop-and-go traffic kills the joy, and that's one of the few scenarios where I'm happy to have a computer take over.