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I'm hoping the rest of the episodes show more of the driving experience and abilities of the vehicles. This one seemed to be a lot of self-aggrandizing. But this portion of the drive is also partially on paved roads and around more population. Further west it will be much further between...

Watch Rivian R1T Electric Truck Tackle The Trans-America Trail Watch the Rivian R1T go where no EV has gone before. Sep 19, 2021 By: Steven Loveday If driving two Rivian R1T electric pickup trucks all the way from Patagonia to Los Angeles wasn't enough – that's 13,000 miles in very...

Imagine if you had been driving an ICE vehicle. Ever punctured a gas tank? Ever had sparks near a punctured gas tank? Good deal on Tesla with the underbelly protection. A few years back there were a few Teslas with punctures to the battery packs that caused a couple of fires. But Tesla stepped...

Compared to the number of ICE vehicles that catch on fire (I regularly see either the hull of a burned-out vehicle or the charring of some pavement after a burn along the highways and bi-ways I drive) I would really not consider the total number of EV fires to be a reason yet to avoid EVs. It is...

Let's hope that Tesla can keep the military applications training fully separate from other uses so we don't accidentally trigger an assassination training protocol while using a teslabot around the house. On the other hand, I see a number of Hollywood scripts coming wherein the mentioned...

And people have been saying that a CT was too large to find parking anywhere on the street. LOL. If you are a downtown business where there is on-street parking out front, do you put up signs saying that it is a no Bolt zone?

I like this idea. Not for a Tesla. But for vehicles that totally evoke an earlier era (it's not steampunk but a similar concept for the 1940s to 1950s maybe), I love the dash switch for a CRAZY mode.

OMG, I want to know the specs on the Nobe pickup. I'd love to tool around town in that. I still want a CT for a ton of reasons. But for a short trip to the hardware store, or to drive to work, I'd really like this Nobe pickup.

Let's Check In On Nobe, Everyone's Favorite Estonian EV Maker There's a new pickup truck in the works and lots of carbon fiber By Jason Torchinsky Image: Nobe I first wrote about Nobe, the small Estonian company attempting to make what appears to be the most retro-cool three-wheeled EV I’ve...

Note to self: Don’t park within 50 feet of a Chevy Bolt. Ever. That thing has cooties. Serious fire cooties.

Yes, raccoons can get large enough to cause damage. But at least $3500 wasn't a total loss of the vehicle. I've totaled a vehicle from hitting a deer before. My fear with FSD not slowing down for deer is what will happen in the case of moose or cattle. Many kinds of deer are small enough to...

Speaking of dogs, I was once hit by a dog. Notice, I did not hit the dog. The dog hit me. On a side street going slowly through an intersection where I had right of way and the cross street had stop signs. It had been a sunny afternoon but lightning and thunder had just started and there was...

Progress. I have to say though. Every time I drive that very monorail street, I as a human have a difficult time figuring out what to do. Somehow I always end up turning right onto that street, being in the right single lane to the right of the pillars, but needing to turn left about 2 blocks...

I get what you are saying. But I would expect FSD cameras to be able to see deer fairly far ahead and then slowing down in anticipation of a deer possibly crossing in front of the car. The slower the car is going the more options become available. But sure, if you don’t see the deer till the...

I’m waiting for the argument to surface where someone says we need to explore other planets in search of cancer curing compounds. Seems like every other exploration endeavor uses that justification. And if that doesn’t get enough cash support traction, the ante is upped by saying we have to go...

Yes, there are lots of those videos which is why I’m curious about FSD not handling them well yet. Other animals get far less video and I assume far fewer actual interactions. On a recent road trip though I just barely missed hitting some kind of tortoise on the freeway at night while I was...

Oh, and I’ve yet to see a video of FSD avoiding a neighborhood cat. Personal experience is that cats, squirrels, raccoons, skunk, etc are pretty regular animals that get into difficult scenarios. They of course won’t do significant damage or generally endanger your life. But the psychological...

I’m curious if they are training it to handle things like alligators, monster pythons, or large turtles. I’ve seen enough videos of deer, moose, dogs to assume there will be plenty of training there. But various animals have very different modes of transport and with that very different...

Coincidentally Wham Bam TeslaCam just did a video comparing Autopilot to Humanpilot. This is far from scientific. But it is interesting to see situations where Autopilot saved the day compared to situations where it didn’t respond at all. I assume these videos are all not using FSD version...

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