Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag
by dsfyu404ed on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:57AM
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>And seriously who on earth cares about acceleration beyond a certain point.
Being able to launch the car and be going highway speed nearly instantly is really useful whenever you have to merge in a short distance or take a right turn into high speed traffic. You can get by with an under-powered vehicle just fine in most of the country but if you're commuting in/out of a east coast city between DC and Boston it's going to come in really handy (possibly daily if your commute includes a really bad merge). Just last night some dude in a Maserati cut me off taking a right onto a two lane road where I was going ~70mph in the right lane. Had he been driving anything else I would have had to brake but he mashed the skinny pedal and I didn't have to do anything. If I had to take that turn every day I'd want something fast too. Sure it's a luxury feature but damn does it make things less stressful when you're in that situation.
Being able to launch the car and be going highway speed nearly instantly is really useful whenever you have to merge in a short distance or take a right turn into high speed traffic. You can get by with an under-powered vehicle just fine in most of the country but if you're commuting in/out of a east coast city between DC and Boston it's going to come in really handy (possibly daily if your commute includes a really bad merge). Just last night some dude in a Maserati cut me off taking a right onto a two lane road where I was going ~70mph in the right lane. Had he been driving anything else I would have had to brake but he mashed the skinny pedal and I didn't have to do anything. If I had to take that turn every day I'd want something fast too. Sure it's a luxury feature but damn does it make things less stressful when you're in that situation.