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Model 3 now starts at 39500 with Autopilot.

60k will get you the Performance Model with 0-60 in 3.2s and 11.6 1/4 mile


Yes, go test drive one and see for yourself.


The guidelines are pretty simple: When you engage autopilot it reminds you: Keep your hands on the wheel: Be prepared to take over at any time.


They do for legal reasons. Are you saying autopilot is no better than adaptive cruise control and lane assist found on many cars - Not the impression they want you to have at https://www.tesla.com/autopilot ...


Sure. And I'm skeptical that's really enough to keep most humans alert enough to actually be effective at taking over at any time.

Most users will say it's fine, of course. And, as here, Tesla will certainly use it to quickly blame the driver in an accident. But I'd like to see objective measures of attention compared over the long term.


You can't ask a human to do that. It's like selling a gun with a trigger that pulls if you wave at it.


Didn't work for trains, now did it?


Exactly. Train drivers have whole protocols to counter attention issues. And they are trained professionals.

A tape repeating "put your hands back on the instruments" can only buy you that much safety.


The main problem here was the lack of turnout not that those who voted tended to vote for HRC. Black voter turnout dropped significantly from 2012 to 2016.

"The black voter turnout rate declined for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, falling to 59.6% in 2016 after reaching a record-high 66.6% in 2012."

Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/12/black-voter-...


Granted this is an extreme case but large, complex critical systems need a certain amount of stability and upgrades across Java releases are not quite as easy as just touching the servers.


Tesla released their patents on charging back in 2014 in the hopes that others would adopt their tech: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

Have you seen Tesla's charging connector? It's way superior to the bulky standardized connectors. And as said by others, there really is no other game in town right now for long distance travel in an EV.

Disclosure: I own a Tesla Model S.


"Tesla is still producing cars completely manually."

This is blatantly false. Back in November they were doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xor2ubHr8Ag

The current bottlenecks are in the battery production at the Gigafactory, they screwed up and had too much faith in a contractor doing the battery pack assembly lines.


Ok, I found this link which is interesting and agrees with the "Batteries bottleneck" version

https://insideevs.com/musk-says-biggest-model-3-bottleneck/

> “To date, our primary production constraint has been in the battery module assembly line at Gigafactory 1, where cells are packaged into modules.” “We had to rewrite all of the software, from scratch. We managed to write 20 to 30 man-years of software in 4 weeks.”


The fact that nobody has mentioned the word torque shows the lack of Tesla owners on these comments. Driving a Tesla can make you forgive all the other shortcomings.


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