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So who pays for any medical costs?

Not sure I'd base my livelihood on fraud.

"my driver"

What a world we live in. Most of the country (and planet) is so broke they are just scraping by, while programmers have "drivers" and personal shoppers. Wouldn't want to distract those people who have to get to work every day to figure out how to sell the poor people ads!

Your standard auto insurance is not going to cover using your car as a taxi. It will have to be disclosed, and you will pay for it.

The calculus is simple: liabltiy has increased and you have responsibility due to the commercial transaction.

What's so special about this, honestly?

Most people's experience with Mr. Fresco likely came from the Zeitgeist films, which were sort of a phenomenon and many people's first experience with the "vast, global conspiracy" (right as the world economy imploded in 2008). I count myself as one of those people.

In the end, it was like having an atheist trying to convince the pope about his convictions.

I think a better analogy might be "reading a single article on the internet, then projecting yourself as an expert".

I fully expect that the Pope could debate your average atheist into submission.

Option 1: Autopilot isn't where Tesla wants it, and they are trying hard to get it up to snuff, since so much has been made about how far ahead of everyone else Tesla is.

Option 2: In the opinion of a Tesla analyst who works for a bank that underwrote Tesla capital raises, it's a strategic move because the Autopilot is so awesome that it will eat away at Model S sales, though the mechanism by which that happens is unclear. And of course, Elon Musk is known for keeping things close to the chest.

I mean, it could be option 2, but I know where I'd put my money.

If given the choice I prefer a non-powered trunk opening

Being able to pop your trunk (and have it open) on your approach to the car is actually quite convenient. I didn't think much of it until I had the option. I wouldn't call it a deal-breaker though.

It's a design choice toward a self-driving world, where instantaneous road notifications are less important to a person in a car than they are today.

People sure are willing to reach with their rationalizations.

You might be right. But consider that, maybe, Tesla has to remove what they can because they now realize that making a $35k EV without losing piles of money is very, very, difficult.

at other auto companies, they are and the result is literally loss of limb and life.

Comparing the safety history of a company that has produced fewer than 200,000 vehicles ever to companies that produce many multiples of that, annually, and have been in operation for over a hundred years is ridiculous.

Man, if you can brand yourself a "tech company" the Silicon Valley technorati will apologize for anything.

Who cares? The very definition of "industry average" means that someone in the industry will be above or below the average.

People seem to think it matters when they claim Tesla is "above average" in autonomous driving capability, or automated car manufacturing.

But yeah, "who cares" about people getting hurt in blue-collar industries, am I right?

I'd bet that there is some PR firm trying to drum up anti Tesla sentiments.

Anything anti-Tesla is part of some PR conspiracy. Meanwhile, 10 vapid, fluff-pieces from Electrek or random Musk tweets show up on the front page every week.

Have you considered that, perhaps, it's not all rainbows and unicorns with this company?

It's incredibly dangerous advice to tell someone "take drugs, despite your psychological problems"

It's far more dangerous to tell people with psychological issues to avoid "drugs".

This is a brand that would benefit from stealing the popup idea

The brand is already hyper-exclusive and doing extremely well, and I didn't get the impression from the article that there is any concern about the bots.

Perhaps these people are fine doing what they're doing, and don't need to grow, grow, grow the brand. Perhaps it's Silicon Valley that should be learning some lessons here...

So now we can't castigate lawbreakers until we can prove someone actually adheres to the law?

No, but we could at least hold out on castigation until it's proven they've broken the law. A class action lawsuit isn't proof of anything.

He's gone on record that there's going to be an explicit or implicit write down, and China's average GDP growth is going to be well below 5% (averaging more like 2-3%) by 2020.

But I'd hardly describe that as a "reckoning". It sounds more like a predictable "regression to the mean"

China's unprecedented growth is unsustainable; people know this. Case in point: this article.

but most people haven't even progressed past a folk understanding of economics

There are a few subjects where the average HN denizen thinks they know more than the professionals by having read a mainstream book or two. Economics is one. You can identify these people when they ask, 'How come economists couldn't predict the crisis?'

Does Mankiw mention this in his "requirement for informed criticism"?

Are you honestly asking whether Mankiw discusses supply/demand price effects in his textbook?

if I could I'd take a giant antitrust bat to about half the technology sector (which would hurt profits).

That'd be nice on an island. Otherwise, have fun competing against technology behemoths from other nations, some receiving subsidization from the government.

I'm on HackerNews multiple times every day.

Imzy is a company that came, raised over $10MM in funding, and went out of business in 7 months. This is the first I've heard of them.

How on earth does that happen? It's inexplicable.

I think the problem is not that Ford can't make electric cars, but that Ford struggles to make good or competitive electric cars.

And you base that on what exactly? Their EVs are in the pipeline.

that also plays it safe with most of their lineup.

As opposed to..who? Who do you consider "living dangerously" in the auto industry?

Ford's current 2017 lineup still struggles a bit to compete with the original Chevy Volt

Have you considered that they aren't trying to compete in the market yet? That there have been precisely zero EVs that are being produced profitably?

Despite what HN conveys, the EV market is WIDE OPEN. Tesla hasn't won anything. The excitement is forthcoming, not decided.

Holy Crap!

It'll happen to all these dual-class shares when the tide turns and the tech sector falls from favour.

I use my tablet quite a lot to browse the web. It's an old iPad 2. Is there anything new in this tablet that would benefit me?

If you're fine with an iPad 2, the new Surface is probably overkill.

As someone who just retired an iPad 4 (first retina I think?), new tablets will be much faster and lighter. I'm currently using a $200 Lenovo tablet, mostly as an ereader, and it's snappier than the old iPad (though the screen is worse). Also, Opera mini is great on these old devices.

"These people".

Great phtograph of a beautiful kitchen, complete with a chef providing catered lunches, captioned with a description of how the company had to lay off staff because the company executives can't figure out how to make money. Perhaps that should come before the chef? Why is it such a badge of pride to provide perks on other people's dime? Silicon Valley in a nutshell.

I love how you believe that the government is standing in the way of you making a fortune investing. That's precisely why the laws exist. How quickly we forget average peoples buying million dollar homes without understanding the basics of interest rates.

Macchio was 23 in the first film, and 28 in Karate Kid 3. This information is at your fingertips.

The price difference has nothing to do with that.

Price has nothing to do with performance?

0-60 time is 0-60 time, regardless of how it feels. "Performance" can be measured. Maybe I'm still missing your point.

It is much more fun driving a lower powered car at the limit than an overpowered on at 25%.

Motorcycle enthusiasts understand this concept. Driving an overpowered (for your experience) bike isn't fun compared to throwing a smaller bike around.

Why'd you get a BRZ?

Good looking (subjective), reliable, quick, fun to drive?

Why did you buy your car?

I own a Tesla S85 and recently had a Cadillac ATS rental for a few days.

The MSRP on the Tesla is twice as much as the ATS, so I would expect performance differences.

and we rarely do 0-60 in actual real-life driving.

Many people would be mostly satisfied with great handling over speed in daily driving, but don't know what that feels like in a car.