The only thing I’ll trust a salesrep about is when they can point to the button and tell me the button is at this location. I do not trust the salesrep when they tell me “this car 100% has that button”. I do not trust the salesrep when they tell me “this unidentified button 100% absolutely certainly does that thing you want.”

When it comes to all the other things the salesrep says, my expectation is that the salesrep is just filling the air with words they expect I want to hear.

Here is the extent of information transfer I can trust from sales reps:

Me: “Can I drive it” Them: “Yes, here are the keys”

If they can point out features of the vehicle and demonstrate them, great. Sometimes I’ll miss stuff from the documentation, sometimes I don’t quite understand what the documentation is trying to tell me. But this is the “salesrep pointing at the button and telling me where it is” level of communication: I missed something obvious, the salesrep did something uncharacteristically useful.

Remembering Westley from The Princess Bride: “life is pain, and anyone telling you otherwise is lying or trying to sell you something.” In the case of car sales reps, they are both lying and trying to sell you something.

Who says they don’t have a good work environment?

Tesla does, by claiming their workers have better conditions than the union mandated minimums, while refusing to join the union agreements.

Liquid cooled cables don’t need larger conductors because the cables are kept cool by actively cooling them. The reason passively cooled cables need larger conductors is that resistance heating of conductors is a self-reinforcing cycle where the resistance increases as temperature increases, and temperature increases as resistance increases. So you use much larger conductors for passively cooled cables to keep resistance heating within the capabilities of the passive cooling of that conductor.

Hey remember when Toyota was the serious car manufacturer and Tesla was the one we laughed at with their 100,000/year goal?