2024, I didn’t ask the dealership guy what hardware powered it (because I don’t care), I reviewed it here actually: https://fuelarc.com/cars/review-2024-tesla-model-3-long-range-rwd/

I don’t see how it could have gotten much better with a vision-based solution, but who knows? Personally, it wasn’t in the same ballpark as acceptable quality for my use-case. I don’t expect incremental software patches will fix that to my satisfaction.

Again, I’m weird, never been in an accident and I drive a ton, I’m particular about my car not crashing because I used to be on an ambulance crew and treating car-crash victims really takes the shine off your apple.

Poor anticipation of turns and poor trailing distance. Didn’t spot many other vehicles on the road, too, that’s ultimately what made me pull the plug.

(saw that, I agree, I bet it will be Tokyo next)

Even on non-lethal accidents, Waymo generates something like 12x fewer.

I think that tech will be the automotive equivalent of the polio vaccine. Dying in road accidents will become akin to dying of rabies, a freak accident of extreme rarity. Probably, so will driving cars with no autonomous capabilities.

I’m glad for you!

Personally, I tried it. Wasn’t my cup of tea, bad safety margins (it doesn’t drive how I drive, and I am particular). There’s a consumer for that product, though. So long as you watch it closely, I certainly don’t mind, glad it suits you.

Love me some good Beeb coverage, this is great

It’s me. And yes, I’m bad at math, guilty as charged. I tend to make pretty simple points.

But, yes, when a publicly traded company promises exponential growth on their earnings calls, and then delivers double-digit unit delivery a year later, I do tend to point and laugh. All of that is accurate.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Figured I could trust you to find the link that says “WROTE A TUTORIAL.”

Linux, but you can run Android apps once you root it :)

It’s an excessively involved process at the moment, this individual managed it by using a common malware method, he imitated a legitimate OTA update but rewrote it to root the system. He was basically his own supply-chain-attacker: https://hackaday.com/2022/07/18/hacker-liberates-hyundai-head-unit-writes-custom-apps/

Didn’t realize folks would want a proof-of-concept of HOW it was done.

If you want a proof-of-concept, like steps for how to do the thing, that’s here: https://hackaday.com/2022/07/18/hacker-liberates-hyundai-head-unit-writes-custom-apps/

(This is the spirit of the post: Doom is a fun and silly demonstration of the software being hackable.)

MotorTrend noted one middleman/dealership tripled the price on a very basic F-150 Lightning: https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-f-150-lightning-ev-pickup-dealer-markups

Like, no product can survive that sort of scalper in the middle. Also, probably don’t ask a middleman to sell a new product and sell the well-established alternative to the new product. Recipe for failure, cunningly cooked.

Yeah, ditto. They’re stating June for final pricing announcement, and targeting “mid-twenties” for price atm.

The original Pinto Madness essay is worth a read, even just as a historical primary source:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness/

Interestingly, you’re right, I think. The Pinto wasn’t uniquely lethal, it was a vehicle with an obvious design flaw that horrifically killed people, but in a class of vehicle where that was weirdly common at the time.

The uncommon thing was that Lee Iacocca put things into writing like “Safety doesn’t sell” and actively de-prioritized safety, and THEN his Ford Motor Company pushed out the Ford Pinto.

But, w.r.t. the Tesla Cybertruck, the year is 2026, every single car on the road should be vastly safer than any 50-year-old subcompact deathtrap.

For me, it’s the social piece that gets me - I have to go get talked at by a series of increasingly greasier dudes until eventually I reach the apex greaseball and he tries to con me out of as much money as he can steal

It’s a terrible system TBH XD

I test drove one… They’re really really nice!

Personally, the used market has collapsed, but that’s also sort of a good thing if you’re shopping used.

If the car will make it to 200,000 miles, you’d expect a used one with 95,000 miles to be worth ~50% of original sales price.

And that’s just the baseline. Some vehicles hold value exceptionally well, like my Toyota Tacoma, the used prices are absurd, it’s worth something crazy like 75%+ what we paid for it in 2021.

Not so for a lot of EVs. I threw 3 examples into the article (Audi e-Tron, Dodge Charger Daytona, and then I guess the Ioniq 6 itself, the sporty ones with a speed markup). It’s newsworthy just because it’s unusual, it’s like the used market is saying something about the vehicle is not worth what the manufacturer thought it was worth on day one.

Pretty sure you’re joking, but I am who I am, so I got to do the math.

Here, Edmunds has a really crisp infographic. By the Edmunds used car depreciation percentages, this Hyundai should be worth about ~65% of what it originally sold for, but instead it is being sold for half as much: https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/how-fast-does-my-new-car-lose-value-infographic.html

Seems weird, right? My working theory is that EVs are being overvalued by the manufacturers with inflated MSRPs, and that the used market sort of reveals fair-market value in an unexpected way.

ICCU issue would be covered by recall if this unit was impacted. Recalls are listed on the Carfax, along with a repaired-already/not-repaired flag.

It has a single unrepaired recall… for a loose charging cap cover :)

I’m not a great automotive journalist, but I do try!

If you wouldn’t pay 1/3rd of MSRP for a car with about 1/2 the lifetime mileage left in it, you’re sort of proving why it’s newsworthy. A used ICE vehicle in the same condition would be snapped up with that pricing. Depreciation like that matters to folks when the product costs ~$40-50K new.