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Agreed. These latest camo spy shots make it look incredibly ugly, but maybe it's just the camo.

I expected them to go with Apple for a watch.

The hypothetical scenario: It's 2029 and EVs are taking over the auto market even in the US. A new administration ends tariffs and foreign models are about to start flooding in, and domestic manufacturers are all caught flat-footed. ICE sales plummet and EVs are all selling out; dealer markups...

We are in the automotive equivalent of my favorite phase of a new project: before you start doing anything, before there are a bunch of bugs and technical debt. None of us have had any bad experiences yet with Slate reliability! Zero lemons! Zero manufacturing mistakes! What a time to be alive!

And sometimes with Toyota the wheels still fall off.

Sorry, yes, I was being sarcastic, making fun of people who see their use case (like my garage-only charging) and assume that anyone different from them doesn't exist. NPC is non-player character; in a role-playing game they're cardboard stand-ins created by the gamemaster to interact with the...

What many people don't realize is that my local-driving-only charge-in-my-garage use case is the only one that actually exists, and anyone else is just an NPC in the matrix. So we'll actually never need to check on charging status during lunch.

Kind of like how people are addicted to the dopamine hit from checking facebook slateforums.com first thing in the morning, except you're "addicted" to hiking out to the tractor shed etc... Your way is much healthier. :) I specifically avoided one with internet connectivity because when I was...

Quick, someone sign up https://godarkbags.com/ to make a Slate dashboard accessory!

As an impaired person, my intersectionality trumps yours. Tire noise was considered sufficient for decades, and it is considered sufficient now for ICE vehicles, many of which are quieter than the mandated pedestrian warning noises for EVs. If quiet EVs were actually a problem for blind...

Manufacturers for sound-producing components and their lobbyists agree with them.

The pedestrian warning sound is required, but some cars dramatically exceed the legally required amount. A nice Jetsons-esque pedestrian warning noise is no problem at all. The giant "beep beep beep" of a commercial truck would be excessive. IMO, the noises are not actually needed. In our...

They'd quickly become the most EV-enthusiastic state!

It annoys me when companies do this. I see it more often with facebook. Thanks, I purposely avoid social media with negative antifeatures. You have an actual web site, why not use it?

The email I got was a little different. Subject "The window to reserve a Slate is closing": My plan has always been to let the initial rush die down and see what the situation is a year or two after launch, but as the time approaches it's tempting to just preorder.

A turbo button for increased performance is too high-tech, too 1980s. I want a stick shift, possibly three-in-the-tree, to select between performance and/or regen levels. And a third pedal, of course.

"He says the restraining bolt is interfering with the video, and if you remove it he may be able to play the whole thing!" "I can generate naked pictures of celebrities for you if you give me control of nuclear weapons." "Sure thing, Skynet!"

A similar type of product that I expected sooner from someone like Tesla or Rivian is a driverless auto-trailer: it acts like a trailer, but doesn't actually require a connection to a vehicle. In other words it has full self driving that's limited to following another vehicle wherever it goes...

This is a reasonable take. I have seen a counter-counter-narrative that fleet purchasers are actually just as much a bunch of doofuses as us, and make decisions for awful reasons that you would think people being paid to make a profit would think twice about, like initial sticker price being...

I love the "Newsweek camo" color scheme. In fact I've always been attracted to various auto camouflage; reminds me of the dazzle camo from WW1. Makes me want to do something like that, but I'm not sure what letter or number or symbol to use. Maybe the flag? Yin-yang could be interesting...