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by lallysingh 2165 days ago
It's also essentially a regular car with a 144v battery and larger starter motor. Otherwise, very conservative.
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Closi 2165 days ago
By the same metric, isn’t Tesla just like a regular car but with a bigger battery, no engine and a really big starter motor?

I mean cars before that had all the adaptive cruise control stuff anyway which is the same but just a bit better right?

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lallysingh 2165 days ago
No, the interior and it's controls are completely different. The touch screen interface is a huge difference.
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Closi 2165 days ago
Like the touch screen a Prius has, but without the buttons?

I’m just saying if you can trivialise the huge R&D effort that went into the Prius, you can trivialise the Tesla in the same way. I think anyone who appreciates the nuance in engineering knows that it wasn’t just putting in a slightly bigger starter motor, they invented a whole category.

But the iPad is just a big iPhone, and the iPhone was just an N80 but it had a touch screen and you couldn’t install apps.

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