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Okay, but that assumes that they under invested in software, and that they could have saved enough money from doing slightly less good engineering elsewhere in order to properly fund the software development effort. My impression is that the software development org wasn't well managed, not...

People do seem to love the ID Buzz though. For me, the range is a show stopper, so I've never bothered to test drive one.

What's the head height when standing under the deployed awning? I've never considered doing something like that because I just assumed the head clearance would be annoyingly low. My wife would probably be fine with it, she's 10" shorter than me.

It was just a concept vehicle, which is something manufacturers rarely convert into a vehicle you can buy. No idea why that is.

A complaint about losing even basic dream drive functionality seems worth emailing to swfeedback@

I've had smart locks fail on me, and always want a backup plan. Most recently was just last month, where you could hear the motor running to pull back the deadbolt, but nothing moved. The key and internal manual knob both continued to work fine. My home has only one door at ground level, so a...

I get the point of PAAK. And the point of a fob (my personal preference). It's the key card I don't understand. Designing a system where you need a key card as a backup seems like just an incredibly bizarre design to me. I know there's been talk about the fob having a key card built in that...

No way to tell if a test driver is driving or if the car is driving. But the problem with the modern big-data approach to training autonomous driving AI is that there's probably a huge amount of terrible human driving included in your training data. Ideally you'd go through all the training...

The real test is asking @hmp10 to weigh in!

Absolutely. And I'd argue that the performance and the range combined is what makes a Lucid so compelling. I'd be much less excited about their vehicles if you only got one of the two.

I feel like the ultimate solution would be a fridge with an internal battery that fits in the sub-trunk, and retrofit in a little fan (like a 120mm 12V case fan) to the sub-trunk cover to circulate the air when it gets hot down there. The fan retrofit would require a little comfort with...

I suspect that it was much more politically convenient to ban Polestar, which only sells EVs, much hated by the Trump administration, and with a fairly small customer base to complain. Volvo on the other hand has a much larger number of customers who would raise a stink if the company was...

Don't know that it's actually all that weird: I select the inventory filters for GGT, any miles/availability/model year, 5 seats, 20/21 wheels, leather seats, dynamic handling, comfort. The results are just one vehicle from each model year.

Add in that every tech company I talk to is thinking about expanding hiring in oversees offices, just due to concern about US politics and the ability to get visas for foreign labor. Middle Eastern oil states lean heavily on foreign labor, and in my experience their visa system makes it easy...

For quite a few years I interviewed extremely senior software engineers and asked them to design an elevator control system as an interview question. Most failed due to the complexity, and the real insight was how they tackled a difficult problem, and not whether they succeeded or not.

Quick is a good idea. I've seen a lot of leadership changes at companies, and the rip-the-bandaid off approach has mostly been better than changes being slowly rolled out to minimize the disruption.

I don't have any concern about that. Announcing the '27 should be done just as their '26 inventory exhausted and '27s have begun shipping to studios. Otherwise you strand yourself with '26 inventory that you have to put discounts on because many buyers will want the latest model year, even if...

I think they do, but all markets have "table stakes". You have to get the basics right for your unique virtues to matter to people.

On the flip side, there is exactly one 2026 GGT and one 2027 GGT in the inventory finder that comes at all close to matching my desired config. Neither matches exactly, so both would require me to compromise, which I wouldn't be very inclined to do when spending that much money. My desired...

I wonder if awareness of this is contributing to some of the efficiency differences that people are reporting? My impression is that lowering the ride height at higher speed makes a real difference in efficiency, not just driving dynamics.