andykellr

A quick Google search turned up this excerpt of his analysis of the Challenger disaster (beginning on page 14).

https://blogs.stockton.edu/hist4690/files/2012/06/Edward-Tuf...

I'm ok with quiet, unmanned, self-driving delivery trucks that automate the package delivery process. I am not looking forward to delivery drones buzzing around overhead becoming a normal occurrence.

I do prefer a Tesla with a nicer interior. Like this Porsche, it doesn't exist.

My point is that the interior, which is actually great but could possibly be better, isn't really important to me when nearly every other aspect of the car is amazing and better than anything else I would consider in its price range.

This is a common complaint by people and I'm starting to believe it's just the only thing people can find wrong with it so it seems to stick. I read the same thing yesterday on a different article about this new Porsche concept.

That said, this is the first car I've found interesting since I bought a Tesla. With everything else, it's eh--it's probably loud, vibrates, has jerky acceleration, drips on the garage floor, makes me stand in the cold while I fill it with gas, uses old "tiny explosions under the hood" technology.

Should we criticize the best because it could be better? Of course, that's how we make progress. Would I prefer a different car with a better interior but a bunch of other compromises? No way.

On public wifi, I use https://www.getcloak.com

I also uninstalled Flash.

"This small trick has intellectuals furious"

I was shocked when I saw these defaults on recent trips to NYC. I lived there before these machines and 15-20% has always been the standard--less if the driver was rude, reckless, or deliberately slow--but almost never more than 20%.

Including the surcharge is fine because it's part of the fare, but including tax and tolls is unreasonable.

I typically choose 20% or Other. Now I will be sure to check the software as well.

I don't typically drive more than 250 miles a day, so I charge at home almost exclusively. Everyday I start with a full charge.

Imagine every few days having to take your cell phone to a special store to charge it. That's what we've been doing with cars and we just accept it as an inherent part of car ownership.

Fueling at home is extremely liberating, more than making up for the rare need to find a charger.

As a Tesla owner, I actually feel like the press is too generous in their comparisons to similarly priced vehicles. Unless I was buying a car for a special purpose like track racing, I can't imagine spending the same amount or more on a legacy vehicle with a lower passenger capacity, less storage space, more mechanical complexity, and the constant hassle of having to stop to buy gas.

We're in the process of replacing our second car and that will end up being less than half the price of the Tesla. But if I were going to spend > 60k, I would buy a second Tesla without the slightest hesitation.

In 37k miles I've never experienced limp mode and don't know much about it. I regularly drive for over 2 hours at Midwest highway speeds.

Can you describe your half-day jaunt through the mountains in more detail? I'm having trouble figuring out how this is out of the question.

Your generalizations about Michigan are misinformed.

There are many people in Michigan that think that companies that sell things should be able to sell them to people that want to buy them. There are also many people that can afford a Tesla.

When I got my car in March 2013, I decided it was so amazing that I should buy some stock. I don't really invest in individual stocks so I bought 100 shares at $20. A few weeks later I sold 50 for $35 (an amazing % return). Then I watched it climb to $280, wishing I bought 1,000 instead and hung on.

Despite my missed opportunity, I think the car is far better than any other vehicle on the road. There really is no comparison. 8-speed double-clutch automatic with paddle shifters? I prefer no transmission. I could go on and on.

Hopefully, someday in the distant future, all of our cars will be non-smoking.

I was there with my wife in November and in one small town you have mountains, a castle, cheese, a Tibet museum, and aliens. His art was far more provocative than I anticipated. I thought it was funny that there was an adults-only room. Some could argue that nearly everything belonged in there. Across from the museum is an amazing bar that he designed. You should go there.

They'd still be selling a cheap printer with expensive ink. That wouldn't make it a new business model and neither does Gillette selling a new handle with (existing) expensive blades.

"But here’s the true innovation: Gillette’s new razor will use P&G’s current blades"

I'm confused. A new handle that let's you keep using existing $4 blades doesn't sound like a new business model. It just sounds like an iteration on the handle that will encourage people to buy their handle over the competitions' handles and thus sell more $4 blades.

What am I missing?

They're going that way. Check out the 2014 map. Bryce might be tricky, but Zion should be easily reachable.

Even on the 2015 map, northern Arizona above Flagstaff remains empty. Obviously the Grand Canyon is a factor in the northwest, but it's probably also due to them having trouble finding a location in the reservation. I've driven from Flagstaff to Moab 4-5 times, which is a lot of someone that has only lived on the east coast and recently the midwest, and it's never involved New Mexico.

Right, there's an average around 1 cent (across all domestic and international travel) and you're suggesting that you should save them for when it's to your advantage. I agree.

Personally, I've never seen a flight where redemption matched the article at around $0.10/mi, e.g. a $5000 ticket for 50,000 miles. Let me know when you see one and I'll book a ticket and we can discuss this over coffee.

The typical redemption estimate of a mile is 1 cent. Often $250 tickets are 25,000 miles, $500 tickets are 50,000 miles, etc. When you find a $1000 ticket for 25,000 use miles. I've seen $600 tickets for 125,000 miles. That's a bad use of miles.

Many credit cards give you about 1% bonus (points, miles, whatever) and miles cards give you a mile per dollar spent. 1% of a dollar is 1 cent. So this math makes sense.

He got 1000 miles for 2.50. If each mile is worth 1 cent, that's a 4x benefit. Great, but not amazing. He got a tax deduction too, so maybe it was a 5-6x benefit. Sounds like a bit of a hassle, but the other perks sound great.

Anyway, the article should say $15,000 worth of miles. The airline might sell them to you for $150,000 but that's why you should never buy miles unless there's a tiny gap in what you have/need for a flight. For example, United will sell you 50,000 miles for $1881.25 which you can then redeem for a ~$500 ticket and not earn miles on that flight.