Electric vehicles with drive assist are awesome and are the future,
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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Sooo...100% of future transportation should be done by train or bus? Gonna build an express line out to grannie's house in the woods of rural upstate LargePlace? Maybe with a few local stops at some hiking trailheads? Can't forget to add a direct line from there to the closest grocery store two towns away, or maybe granny can just hop on the train to CenterTown and take the connecting bus over to Nowhere'sVille, and grab another train from there. God forbid she wants to visit Aunt Sue in Isolated Harbour. Or maybe we should just seize both their properties and relocate them to Dense Village, which was specifically designed to be public-transit friendly.
Yeah trains are awesome, and we should utilize them more (especially in the US). But public transit is not the solution to all long-distance travel. So why flat-out reject a theoretical improvement, on the basis that it's not a literally perfect solution?
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I'm in the market for an electric vehicle. What are my options, @BettyWhiteInHD ?
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how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now?
While I agree with the basic premise of your argument, this isn't the knock you think it is. The majority of passenger cars won't be on the road in 10 years, let alone 20. Between poorly designed cheap econo-cars, people who want the latest new thing, and people who abuse their car (insanely long commutes, deferring maintenance, etc), they just don't last that long on average. I rarely see a 2013 model or earlier let alone a 2003 or eariler.
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Embarrassed for people who buy them nowadays.. There are so many better EV out there lmao
I'm just over here sittin' in my lil 2006 civic hybrid, eatin' popcorn and celebrating 200k+ miles without so much as a loose screw.
I would have totally considered a Tesla3 for my partner if not for all the reasons listed here.... Price wise they seemed like a good enough deal for a new Model3, but I couldn't get past the Musk factor, and the quality control issues - I would not trust my life in the hands of that company.
I probably wouldn't buy one now because of my extreme disdain for Musk, but also there are at least comparable alternatives available. Musk is a disaster, and maybe you can argue that if not Tesla, then some other vehicle would have jump started (heh) the EV movement, but I'll at least give Testa credit for helping make the EV as popular as it is now. All that said, I still don't own an EV because the last time I needed to buy a car it was still prohibitively expensive and I had no way to charge it overnight; I suppose there's a whole separate discussion on considering an expensive car you can't charge overnight because you rent an apartment that only has street parking and maybe the real need is to focus on a better housing solution before a new car...but anyways.