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> If toyota wanted to be less conservative and start using blazing new technologies in their cars, I'm sure we'd see the same issues there. The Toyota Prius wa
by tjr225 6y ago
> If toyota wanted to be less conservative and start using blazing new technologies in their cars, I'm sure we'd see the same issues there.
The Toyota Prius was the first mass produced hybrid vehicle and is notoriously reliable.
- lallysingh 6y agoIt's also essentially a regular car with a 144v battery and larger starter motor. Otherwise, very conservative.
- Closi 6y agoBy 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?
- lallysingh 6y agoNo, the interior and it's controls are completely different. The touch screen interface is a huge difference.
- Closi 6y agoLike 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.