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IMO it would make more sense to sell the kits as a complete rolling chassis, with a brand new F250 frame, and let coachbuilders slap on whatever body they want.
Technology Review covered this back in 2016 after a driver falsely claimed their Model X crashed into a wall on its own.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/06/08/70845/tesla-know...
Last month, a court in China ordered an owner to publicly apologize and pay damages after falsely claiming her Model 3 had a brake failure.
https://pandaily.com/a-tesla-owner-ordered-by-court-to-apolo...
see also:
Global energy use for heating: ~150 trillion kWh/year
Waste heat from semiconductors: ~1 trillion kWh/year
> advanced people who are going out to talk with the rural people
> They are hooked up, trapped by, entirely captured by a gigantic propaganda machine
> rural people's opinions about renewable energy as such are relatively shallow and easily shiftable
> find people who speak [with a rural accent] and train them
The host's condescension towards rural Americans could not be clearer
I read that Cruise vehicles are controlled remotely about 3% of the time. Does that mean a 10-minute intervention every 5 hours, or a 10-second intervention every 5 minutes?
Seems like extortion to me, so I certainly wouldn't want to put my career or my family in the crosshairs of a group that's willing to sink to such lows.
When the mafia demands protection money, it's prudent to fly under the radar.
Toyota: 5 or 6 years
In impacts below 20mph, pedestrian deaths are rare. Right on red is a 0-10mph maneuver and that's being generous.
> labour unions that, at least on paper, actually represent the interests of the majority of people (since most people are workers and not shareholders)
Though workers outnumber shareholders at some companies, Tesla shareholders almost certainly outnumber its employees due to (1) nearly all employees being shareholders from stock grants, and (2) unusually high retail investor interest (large number of shareholders)