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A valid concern. The very first line: This post is about the movie Arrival; there are no movie spoilers here.

We're talking a difference of $10k/year, that's a lot of money. And you're speaking of miners at the lowest rungs of the ladder: what of those more experienced, or the geologists a…

Average coal miner's salary is a lot more than $32k/year. e: the salary info wasn't in the comment when I replied.

Is it really a mistake? I'm under the impression that automakers pursue FCVs because of the government incentives. I would think that a portion of the R&D could support other alter…

In E&M class, seeing Maxwell's equations be manipulated into the wave equations that predict a propagating EM wave.

That sales comparison you're using is based on the assumption that the Model S competes with large luxury cars, and it ignores the overlap between similar models (e.g., S-class and…

> Not only has Tesla created the greatest external challenge to the German auto industry that I can think of. The greatest challenge they faced is one they still face: the Japanese…

Is the current free Supercharger access tied to the owner or the car, i.e., if I bought a pre-2017 Model S where the previous owner had free Supercharger access, would I also have …

I was wondering how people with older eyes read HN on mobile (if they do at all?). Is there any way to make the font larger and higher contrast? This question, for example, is very…

To what degree will the recent NHTSA self-driving guidelines be covered in your program?

Ditto. It also seems strange to be able to retask their radar from secondary to primary control.

It was a secondary discriminating sensor, but the latest Autopilot 8 upgrade retasks radar to be "a primary control sensor without requiring the camera to confirm visual image reco…

Sorry, I thought I was in and out before anyone had seen my comment. I added a clear edit mark to fess up. I originally wrote "kill" to mirror your original comment, but I changed …

The documentation that the NHTSA is requesting are things that would already exist for a properly designed product. They are not asking for it to be generated de novo (and in fact,…

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards

And he would have needed to have performed the development under an appropriately rigorous development process.

For me, an omelette roulée. Quick, fun to make, doesn't need much cleanup, and infinite versatility.

Thanks for your patience :) I learned some new stuff too!

Nice find, that helps. My reading is that it's slightly more than an artifact: Tesla is guaranteeing a residual, so the sale to the bank is conditional and so cannot be recorded as…

Ok, got it now, thanks. Any idea why they have to list automotive leasing as a separate line item on their report? If they are selling it to a bank who is then responsible for the …

Sorry, not trying to be difficult, but this doesn't clear things up for me. Are you saying that Tesla does not lease directly to the consumer?