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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...

Slate needs to get themselves added to carsized.com. Telo is there! https://www.carsized.com/en-us/cars/compare/telo-mt1-2024-pickup-crew-cab-vs-ford-maverick-2021-4-door-pickup/

The EPA cycle produces the same highway and city measurements regardless of drivetrain, which is one reason why MPGe exists. It's the same flawed "highway" cycle of course. A more useful "highway" measure would be range at 70 mph. Better yet, a 2-d graph showing range at constant speed in 5...

"It's so plastic!" As I like to say, that's the kind of car I like to pay for!

I like the frame rate shown in this video!

My Prius C has a > 10 sec 0-60 time. My 500e is around 8, but like someone said, the number of times I'm behind someone who thinks 35 mph is a fine speed to try to merge onto a highway at is annoyingly high.

Out of curiosity, where are people seeing Slate marketing? I don't think I've seen any advertisements for Slate at all. And I only sometimes use ad blockers (I have a couple ad supported web sites that I want to support by not blocking.)

Slate will be good at the things that you want to use it for. They're just marketing to what they think will be the most lucrative group. Maybe they figure people like you already know how great it will be.

To figure it out, no. To get government funding for figuring it out, yes. :)

Self-driving cars wouldn't make human drivers less safe than they were before, so they shouldn't affect insurance rates for human drivers.

Assuming of course that the Blank Slate is successful enough to spawn a second model, because of course it will be, what makes sense for Slate the company to build for their second model? Full size truck? (Four door option, two door with very long bed option? Body on frame? Three row SUV...

"Could" Also, the 12th Imam could return and endorse Slate, driving all other car companies out of business.

Every Lightning owner I've seen comment about it says they love their truck. I don't want or need something that size but it made me slightly jealous; I wish someone would make an EV version of my favorite car that was so excellent. Ford canceled it (for now) because it was less profitable...

Melinda Gates? :) Though even in her case, her parents were middle class enough to send her to a private school.

Their money actually doesn't sit. It gets constantly reinvested in things like Slate.