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Wait, is checking a box seen as "jumping through hoops"? Ever tried to get rid of Google's or FB's tracking? When buying a car (or anything), you are opting in to the 'offer' of that merchant. You can definitely opt out/demand better by not purchasing. So long as they're crystal clear with...

Lol, Ford Ka? Fiat Barchetta? and that's just on the first row, I don't think this vid would be a good use of time. One of those "2hrs of logs burning" would at least have some therapeutic value.

I guess I, too, was surprised the Taycan didn't outbreak the others by a good margin. At the same time, it seems it was 1 test? With an unclear tire situation? Even track surface alone could explain the differences. And - gimme a break - "on my mark, brake!" as the test methodology? I like the...

@bsclywilly it doesn’t look like a test mule. Was this a factory test, or it this already made its way to a dealer or private owner? Thanks for sharing, very cool.

Exactly. The specialized software of the various car systems is relatively trivial in comparison to the UX and its myriad of user touch points or upstream dependencies. Clever != complex.

Can't do that, prior art. (Tom Walkinshaw Racing?)

@tigerbalm it seems to me the focus is on automated integration with the HiL test benches - and you'll probably appreciate, if you have done QA with HW, as not being trivial at all. The large number of QA engineers is probably a reflection of the different locales with their respective...

Clearly not an SUV, 0 utility value. “Ultra GT: you can go anywhere. Bring only your wallet. (The thin/sleek kind. Seriously - pack light.)”

(M)eh. Not all of us want or need the same things (in the same order) from a given car. Don’t let anyone else tell you how you should spend your money.

It’s disappointing that, having met some of these folks, and discussed the matter in person, the “better” comparisons persist. @daveo4EV and @whitex i know you know better - it’s not lack of skills, it’s an UX philosophy. It’d be trivial to do any of the things you enumerated in both your...

Yes. <Dad talking to the ensembled family>: "One lucky member of this family gets to ride with me. You decide who, I'll be outside in the car." <walks away, stops briefly> "I'll wait for 5 min." You cannot coddle them. Life is harsh. (And then we die.)

(It seems I'm the only one who took your message tongue-in-cheek as intended.. right?)

I guess this is precisely the point I'm trying to make, and which, again, didn't 'click' with me until I tried it myself: you may get there faster, but probably more tired, stressed, with a headache. (Besides, not sure what else one would do after a 1k mile trip in a day, other than have a beer...

Answering with my 2c. Because (pick any or all of the following): - road tripping is subjective - for some, time spent traveling is a cost, whereas for others it's part of the experience (maybe even the best). Hence time is not necessarily to be optimized away. And as I've often said, stopping...

@Jonathan S. thanks for taking the time. “Electrify America has established contractual requirements to reasonably resolve critical issues with all stations within a maximum of 72 hours.” ?? (passed out)

@daveo4EV you're in the area! Not sure if the planets will align, but I'm literally a few miles East of your route as you'll drive back South. You also wrote a few (== many) other things, some of which do stand out: - it's perfectly okay for something to be better/the best, and yet not matter...

Wait, that's not okay? The few times I tried it - because, you know, exchange offices aren't ubiquitous - Canadians seemed peeved to take USD, but had no problem giving me a 1:1 exchange rate (and the change in CAD).. I see that @thecoloradokid has deleted his posts, but surely you must have...

To add my own tendentious data point, the fully loaded Model X in your example is a good 65k pounds (sterling, at today’s exchange rate) than my car, or almost 1.8x as expensive. The point I’m trying to make is that I got a lot of car for my money compared to a Tesla. To your initial point -...

You’re right; however, Porsche have not made an attempt to correct this in 3+ years, and that is unacceptable in its own way.

Not sure if you read through. Tl;dr: Tesla service advisors would run remote diagnostics and hide the existence of other problems detected in response to a range complaint. Further, customers calling about range would be blocked from opening subsequent cases. Allegedly. Some customers do like...