The menu controls on the screen are snappy and load as quickly as you’d expect from a regular phone/tablet. Miles ahead of all other manufacturer’s which indeed always seems to be slow as hell.

Web browser and Netflix/Disney+ are still fucking ridiculously slow on the “older” though. It’s been significantly improved with the new hardware in the model s/x and 3 highland refresh, but still not good enough IMO.

It’s great for Tesla, for one reason - modularity.

Not really as far as the touch controls on the steering wheel goes. The icons are static and can’t be changed, so their functionality is kind of tied to the icon.

As for configuring additional controls for them, it’s exactly the same as if they were physical buttons, it’s all a wiring harness going to the computer either way, what that computer does with the input signal is not any less configurable for a physical button. The limiting factor is the static icon, not whether it’s touch/tactile.

In regards to selling incomplete products, this is unfortunately not even limited to Tesla. All car manufacturers release several updates and bugfixes for new cars, they just can’t send them OTA, they need to get them in the shop. My colleague’s VW ID4 has been in the shop for no less than 3 SW updates to fix various bugs and add basic features such as battery preheating for DC charging, it fucking shipped without that!

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They also don’t ship with the yoke by default anymore, the default is a regular round one and have been for a while.

Cornhole

Assuming regular cold tap water as starting point (that’s ~10°C for me) you’d need a power output of something like 50kW to heat a gallon (3.8L) of water to boiling in 30sec, assuming a 98% efficiency.

Damn, thats a pretty short list of supported models

Aside from battery and the electric motor itself, mechanical parts are easy to come by from other sources than Tesla. Parts related to e.g. suspension, brakes and steering are all easily bought without involving Tesla at all, and can be changed by any mechanic.

Tesla stock is a pyramid scheme.

maybe we can get those on the cheap and install linux on them?

They’re pretty much never thrown out when decommissioned, they’re mostly sold to refurbishing companies that clean them and sell them to consumers or developing countries. So it should be pretty easy to get your hands on them actually. I recently bought a thinkpad T470 for $200 with decent i5 CPU, 16gb ram and 256gb NVME.

how can they cram 350 people in an aircraft that holds about 200 passengers

Ryan air figured this out apparently

The thumbnail alone is reason to avoid the video entirely.

1.44kWh Is roughly 7-10km of driving, depending on the car and weather. In 12h that’s an absolutely useless amount of power for anything other than small e-scooters and short-range e-bikes.

don’t sub to similar communities on multiple instances. Then you’re going to see dupes.

This is the biggest problem with how the fediverse works IMO. By design it fosters fragmented, and to some extent isolated, small communities, which makes it harder to engage with content and find information. Or you have to wade through an abundance of dupes which gets incredibly frustrating really quickly.

IDK about everyone, but personally I love the screen based interface style that car-design is trending towards.

The Steve jobs of the automobile industry

The bumpers are full of sensors, all pastic, and repairs are expensive.

This is the same for all semi-modern cars. Plastic bumbers, even without sensors in them, are surprisingly expensive even on cheaper cars. But the good thing about plastic bumbers, is that they are fairly elastic and most often just bounce back into shape after the amount of deformation a slight fender bender can cause. And scratches are only a cosmetic concern since they can’t rust.

Also, Tesla removed the ultrasonic sensors from both front and rear bumpers a while back.

Features of whatever external devices you bring to your car, is not a feature of the car.

AFAIK, only Tesla has native video streaming from the interface screen in the car, so most cars still don’t have this functionality.

The “we can do it by end of this year” he’s been toting since 2016 wasn’t a giveaway?

At least those are illegal (although perhaps not enforced well enough)