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Tesla Just Did Something Big in the Car World
- thieving_magpie 11y agoNo disrespect toward OP but shit do I hate titles like this. I feel like the media collectively gathered in 2012 and decided they needed to get more clicks, no matter what. At this meeting someone complainied about a recent facebook post they read that drove them crazy. It said "I hate all horses and NO i dont want to talk about it". This individual was driven mad wondering why someone would hate horses with such passion. A lightbulb appeared over the gathering. "That's it! We'll use shitpost titles from now on, nobody will be able to resist". And so it was.
- dang 11y ago> shit do I hate titles like this. We all do.
- dang 11y agoThe story was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9904428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9904428.
- 11thEarlOfMar 11y agoOP Here. I chose not to change the title from the original article/URL. The point that the writer is making is that with this new capability, you can buy a car that is faster to 60 mph than virtually all commercially available ICE cars. He felt this is significant because it is one of the last remaining reasons a buyer may have for purchasing an ICE over an electric car. In order to buy a faster (in a straight line) car, you'd have to spend more than US$1,000,000. Therefore, the writer speculates that ICE engines will be out of production entirely in 20 years. There is no mention of this facet of the story in the original TechCrunch article, so I felt it was sufficiently interesting to post.