As both a lawyer and a programmer, I tend to agree with the above. However, I've noticed among other lawyer/programmers, some further traits: easily bored, and extraordinarily focussed.
A quirky features of lawyers: can be unusually petty.
Quirky features of programmers: can be remarkably correct and still be very opaque.
I was driving the Model X a few years ago and ended up T-boning a minivan at ~45 MPH. Minivan rolled over. Our airbags deployed.
Post accident, I discovered my glasses remained on my face and it seemed that the airbag did not even reach my body -- with the webbing taking the bulk of the impact.
Car took months to repair and ~$30,000.
Not bad when you consider we were driving to the hospital at the time, and the accident prevented us from reaching the hospital as well as preventing us from calling on an ambulance.
3 'assists' that the car gave us:
1. Crumple zone is bigger;
2. Battery made our vehicle heavier;
3. (speculatively), the 'crumple parts', crumpled more and costed more -- leading to less (none) bodily injury.
The Model S and Model X were the first two vehicles to get 5 star crash safety in every category from the US and the EU. Supposedly broke the testing machines (leading to Elon saying 5+ stars)
I remember that when the release versions about 10 years came on the market, but I have not heard those claims in quite a while from any credible sources.
I am certainly not authoritative. My vague recollection is that offset crashes Tesla didn't do quite as well at, so since then Tesla's ironclad safety rating has since waned
This is one reason why I got a cybertruck. Tesla safety, now with even better protection! There are some crash test videos of a cybertruck getting T-boned by a metal sled at near highway speeds. Ever since seeing those, we always drive the kids around in the truck.
Main downside is the hostile behavior from the public, but it’s a small price to pay.
That doesn't sound like a good thing at all? Then again, I'm hardly surprised that the guy who tried to build an aluminum tank and sell it as a car would claim it is.
1. I've paid electric bills in four different cities. Rates haven't been increased at more than 1x annually in any of them.
2. California is getting what seems to be two overhauls: a) replacing/upgrading lines and vegetation practices to harden them against sparking fires; b) massive electrification of cars, data centers, appliances. The capex has to be paid somehow... and interest rates are a drag to that.
> Rates haven't been increased at more than 1x annually in any of them.
Do you mean 2x?
> California is getting what seems to be two overhauls
I believe large share of rate increase is because PG&E need to pay multibillion penalty for previous years of negligence which caused multiple fires with casualties.
This would improve efficiency if the number of electric vehicles on the U.S. roads was on a downward trajectory as they were in the early 1900s. But now the technology is quite different than the lead-acid used back then, and broadly accepted standards are in place. Moreover, the proportion of EVs to ICE vehicles has been growing, albeit more slowly, of late, but growing nevertheless.
That said, removing infrastructure for a growing portion of the fleet seems an odd choice.
Taking a more utilitarian approach, however, where the highest priority is to reduce federal spending, then this can make sense.
1. Must reduce spending;
2. Must reduce perks and credit cards among the U.S. employed workers;
3. Parking is a necessity if we are to avoid WFH... and improve productivity;
4. Giving free 'perk' to one group, without giving it to another, is a) unfair; b) costly.
5. Therefore, remove the discriminatory perk, and satisfy goal #1.
I have broken a collarbone; gotten a bruise 18 inches long; destroyed (one at a time) almost every part on my bicycle; hit an armadillo and ridden to 90 miles with a 20 mile head-wind in the final 10 miles. I've been happy pretty much every time even through some of these incidents, often because I had other riders with me.
I totally get that. I played soccer. The exercise was incidental to my need to play with my friends and team-mates. When Father Time finally forced me to quit I had to go on anti-depressants. Soccer was my drug.
