Cost is a factor but it alone does not always win the day. After all, if up-front and operating costs were the only winning factors, we might all be driving heavily depreciated Gen 2 Priuses (with catalytic converter shields), with 200k miles on the odometer.
Many of us value the various benefits of EVs. Some of us also value advanced driver assist features, including those Tesla is developing under the names 'Autopilot' and 'Full Self Driving (FSD)'. With FSD, Tesla is selling access to a software product they are actively developing and that remains feature incomplete. IMO, Tesla has a track record of eventually delivering most of what they promise, although their schedules are prone to slippage. Autopilot and FSD have no effect on the ability to manually drive the vehicle, and when in use, the driver can take over at anytime if they want to do so. On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 13:26 EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 Mar 2021 at 16:36, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > > > Tesla lawyers recently admitted the $10,000 option that Tesla > > sells as Full Self-Driving Capability is not, in fact, capable of full > > self-driving. > > Good grief. Completely apart from the outright deception here - ten > thousand dollars! In some places you can buy an ENTIRE CAR for $10k. > > I'm not talking about some third world nation here. Granted, it's not an > EV, and it's a bit spartan, but in the EU the Dacia Logan starts at 8400 > euros (US$9996). > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > What has allowed so many psychopathic personalities to rise > so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they > are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled > with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what > happens next. > > -- Kurt Vonnegut > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210311/9dd95480/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
