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odysseus2000 wrote:Who in their right mind puts a racing body out line on an shopping trolly MEB chassis?
Hallucigenia wrote:odysseus2000 wrote:Who in their right mind puts a racing body out line on an shopping trolly MEB chassis?
It's completely normal, it's just the spiritual successor to the Scirocco, which was a 2-door coupé based on the "shopping trolley" PQ35 platform used in the Mk5/6 Golf, Touran, Eos etc. Eeeks out a few more sales of the platform, and gives a bit of a halo to the badge when used for racing.
Hallucigenia wrote:odysseus2000 wrote:Who in their right mind puts a racing body out line on an shopping trolly MEB chassis?
It's completely normal, it's just the spiritual successor to the Scirocco, which was a 2-door coupé based on the "shopping trolley" PQ35 platform used in the Mk5/6 Golf, Touran, Eos etc. Eeeks out a few more sales of the platform, and gives a bit of a halo to the badge when used for racing.
odysseus2000 wrote:Yes, it used to be the way of selling more shopping trollies, but the world has moved on and no way is this comparable to Tesla in any way that matters to the Tesla target market, just mutton dressed as lamb.
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BobbyD
Tesla sell so few models that most new models will fall outside their 'target market'. That's a problem for Tesla though, not manufacturers which can handle producing more than 4 3 2 3 models simultaneaously.
odysseus2000 wrote:BobbyD
Tesla sell so few models that most new models will fall outside their 'target market'. That's a problem for Tesla though, not manufacturers which can handle producing more than 4 3 2 3 models simultaneaously.
Abilty to make lots of ICE cars is not something any shareholder in a legacy car maker should celebrate.
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BobbyD
An inability to exceed or even maintain 4 vehicles on the market at any one time is something a company with the pretension of becoming a successful car manufacturer should find deeply humbling. An organisation with its bandwidth determined by the attention span of a single man whose actually more interested in rockets isn't a viable company it's a vanity project. Tesla needs better leadership.
odysseus2000 wrote:One of the first reviews of FSD v10. Looks very impressive (26 mins);
https://youtu.be/at6pjzFKfzs
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onthemove wrote:While the technology is impressive for what it can do so far, from these videos, I certainly won't be betting on FSD proper being released any time soon.
Howard wrote:Having driven a Tesla in town (but not with the latest FSD version) I experienced a couple of situations where it will be difficult for the car to behave as safely as a human driver.
The first situation was following a car being driven slightly erratically some distance ahead. The driver ahead got in the wrong lane and suddenly moved to the next. In this situation the Tesla would still come up, in my view, too close to the car in front. As a driver, one is aware that a second erratic move is likely. Sure enough at the next roundabout the driver in front repeated the manoeuvre without indicating. The Tesla, left to its own devices, would have been too close and would have had to brake hard to avoid running into the back of the vehicle changing lanes.
Something similar can happen with pedestrians. In a line of slow moving traffic I saw a pedestrian ahead who caught my eye and indicated he was going to jog in front of me. He correctly guessed that I would slow down to allow him to do this. The Tesla software would have no indication of this almost imperceptible human interaction. I imagine It would only react to the sudden presence of a human dangerously close in front by braking sharply risking a collision from the car behind.
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Howard
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