Half of me says this is not true.

That’ll save all the spam callers a little time not checking and then ignoring it.

Legal matters are all about pedantry.

“Take athletics. Americans love sports, and that cultural centerpiece is being corrupted in an orgy of greed and speculative ferver.”

Professional (and collegiate) athletics has always been corrupt - now it’s just more visible.

The only thing needing abolishing is the advertising of gambling.

Say it ain’t so Joe

Yeah, I’m not following on the split angle, unless cells are somehow more efficient if not perpendicular to the sun.

Same, regarding LG slowly occupying all the home appliances spaces. As long as they behave like a good guest in my home I’ll keep buying their stuff.

That’s going to separate force-applied from force-required while riding - a much more comfortable pedal action.

That is what gears are for. The only time gears fail is when you want to pedal harder without going faster - charge the battery. Downhill with a tailwind the cautious can reach this situation, but most just go faster.

gears with a chain is more energy efficient.

The way I read it is if you use throttle-only you can reach 20 mph, but then if adding pedal-power you reach 28 mph. The pedal is probably not generating sufficient force to add 8 mph, but it’s telling the control system to do that.

class 2 and class 3 are mutually exclusive. You cannot legally have an e-bike that supports throttle up to 20mph that can also continue to e-assist if you pedal up to 28mph. While it's technically possible in software to switch between these modes, consumers aren't supposed to be able to do this on their own.

You have an incorrect definition of Class 3.

Class 3 allows pedal assist up to 28 and throttle to 20

https://thecyclistchoice.com/resources/electric-bike-classes...

I did it on my e bike...all I did was lie to the computer about how big my wheels were, which was a directly accessible in the settings menu

Would you trust Tesla’s management if they said they assumed liability?

Either there is a legal agreement in place or there isn't: trust doesn't enter into it.

Trust does matter. If Tesla is determined to use every possible trick to avoid liability, it will cost you a lot to get advantages of that agreement.

Meanwhile, if you have contract with more serious company, you wont have to spend years and thousands fighting them over liability.

Optical filters have been around for awhile, including anti-lasers for cameras, though only for a few years.