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Ouch, that one slices both ways. F150 Lightning.

This is not a PEBKAC problem. Activating the wipers isn't the problem. These problems interact: Enabling cruise control ("autopilot") enables auto-wipers. Auto wipers always seem to be enabled. Getting the auto-wipers to stop in situations where running the wipers generates self-inflicted...

As a Tesla owner, I'm familiar with this argument - but I don't believe it. I've rented FSD for a month in my car and I found it to have a long way to go. It's been nearly a year and the windshield wipers still react incorrectly to self-induced streaks. It's been a year and autopilot still...

That's not the question. The question is: why is the new interface better than the standard interface cars have had for most of the last century? One you answer that question, then the question you answered (about adaptation) becomes relevant. I'm adaptable. What I'm not convinced of is that...

If I remember automotive lore correctly, push button shifters were considered problematic because they were error-prone. I haven't driven a stalkless Tesla yet, but this could be a dealbreaker for me. (I'll test drive one to be sure before I make any big moves.) my Model Y is missing several...

It's a self-selected group. The people who bought the Model 3 generally like it, the peoe who don't like it generally don't buy it. Assuming, of course, that we're only looking at the subset of people who have the means, the motive, and the opportunity to buy a Tesla.

If you have to ask this question, you should consider selling bitcoin and buying an index fund like VTI. Buying VTI is placing a bet on the growth of capitalist economy of the United States of America, which is a relatively safe long-term bet. The returns can be lower, but the risk is...

The weather & climate issues don't need to break the insurance market, but TPTB in Florida need to be able adapt & mitigate when nature throws them a curveball. Palm trees bend instead of breaking.

Large homeowners insurance providers are leaving Florida. This isn't a murmer, it's a fully-developed trend in the insurance industry. As with any major industry trend, it has multiple causes: Floridian laws, Floridian politics, Floridian weather, Floridian hurricanes, and Floridian effects of...

I've been through multiple credible threats of a massacres, and also a worst-in-modern-Ameican-history massacre on the academic campus where I worked at the time. While the real thing is worse, false alarms are deeply traumatic as well -- especially when you are aquinted with the ongoing...

Asking myself *when* this was the case was my route to wisdom. When, exactly, were the good old days? And for whom? Were all Americans from all racial and ethnic groups included at that time? And, of not, where those really the good old days? I didn't like the answers I got, but they were...

An astoundingly bright future is already priced in to TSLA's stock price.

Look no further than the per-kWh charges at Superchargers. The majority of my Supercharging has been at $0.44/kWh. My home electricity costs about 1/3rd that, so Tesla's markup can be as high as 200% (300% of their costs), assuming they're paying retail prices for electricity -- but they're...

The funny thing about automotive accounting is that it has to be based on the number of units you expect to sell - in order to provide any actionable information. If you change that sales-expectation number, everything else changes with it. This is a business where you spend a billion dollars...

Big castings aren't the only way to make an EV. Given Tesla's unique access to capital (remember that Musk's genius is in generating investor-hype and the stock is priced an order of magnitude higher than the conventional pricing models suggest it should be), making a big capital investment...

Here's the thing. The way traditional auto companies work, what we see on the road is what they were designing 5 years ago. The way Tesla works, we see what they're designing now -- and in the future. Back in the beginning, this was the only way Tesla could operate - because they're a startup...

Being a major stockholder on a mine is great work, of you have a few million dollars to buy your way in. Same with owning farmland. Actually doing the work that farming & mining enterprises requires isn't particularly profitable (at the personal level) if you're a rank-and-file employee...

The ridiculous markup is why that truck is still on the lot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias Standard business advice for car dealers is to turn over their inventory and keep it turning over. Every vehicle that doesn't sell is taking the place of a vehicle that will. This...

HCOL = high cost of living area, like San Francisco or New York City. The cost of living is high because the jobs picture is great and everyone wants to live there. LCOL = low cost of living area, like the rural backwater where I grew up. The cost of living is low because there's no economy...

I'm not going back to an ICE car either. My MYLR is the best car I've ever owned. But she makes a six figure salary, likes living in an MCOL, and can't stand Elon Musk. She can do what she likes, automtively speaking. If her automotive hill to die on is a paid-off Honda Civic then, yes...