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on Friday August 28 2015, @07:20PM
from the vroom-vroooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmm dept.
from the vroom-vroooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmm dept.
A score of 103 out of 100 could be called kind of... Insane. This is exactly what the Tesla Model S P85D in 'Insane' mode received during testing by Consumer Reports (CR), a score so off-the-charts good that it actually broke the scale and forced CR to revise how they measure things. The official score with the new, updated methodology will be 100/100.
What made the Tesla break the ratings was the combination of supercar performance and extreme energy efficiency. These things haven't historically been found together, and so CR never had a car that go such high scores in both columns.
Impressive, but alas...traffic.
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The New Tesla Broke the Consumer Reports Rating System With a Score of 103%
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Rich on Saturday August 29 2015, @01:29AM
I get it. The Tesla Model S is, in "sedan" territory, the one to go for, technically. Pricewise competitive with the E-Class and 5-Series, with a drivetrain providing comfort and pleasure not only unheard of before, but unheard itself. There's a Model S owner down my road, I had a chat with him, and he's never going back to a petrol engine.
But don't any of these owners counted in the reports have any worries about the always-on-tracking and phone-home-habits of their cars? Are people ignorant to that fact (even when they get letters to use less supercharging based on their movement profiles), or is it plainly not counted in the report?
In general, it baffles me a bit that there is zero backlash against the upcoming permanent surveillance of cars under the guise of "emergency calls", anyway. I'd think all that information in the hands of widespread state authority is more of a danger than what the NSA shares with its few selected friends.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 29 2015, @08:14PM
You're already being tracked by toll cameras and traffic cams and credit card transaction at gas stations
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 30 2015, @03:39AM
> You're already being tracked by toll cameras and traffic cams and credit card transaction at gas stations
The first two are fixed locations, not minute-by-minute updates. The last is easily circumvented - I haven't used a credit card to buy gas for 4+ years now. Nowadays I go to the local walmart gas-station, ask the attendant for a $20 gas card, immediately spend it at the pump where it gives me a 3-cent/gallon discount and then chuck it in the trash.