keydiver
Well-known member
By 2018:
Don't get me wrong, I'm still very much pro-Tesla, and might even consider replacing my Leaf if Tesla proves me wrong on most of the above. But, I just still have a bad taste in my mouth by the way the S base model turned out. I can still remember Musk touting "$50,000 car" and "250 mile range" in the same interview, as if it was the same model, when we all knew better. Call me pessimistic, but being a publicly-traded company, I'm afraid Musk plays to the cameras a bit to much to keep his stock price rising.
So, as I said, the base model will get no backup camera until 2018, and Tesla will meet the 10%/40% in the upscale vehicles.The U.S. Department of Transportation today finalized a set of federal standards for rear visibility that will require all new vehicles under 10,000 pounds to have backup cameras by mid-2018.
The rules will phase in over several years. Automakers will be required to have compliant rearview systems in 10 percent of the vehicles they build from May 1, 2016, to May 1, 2017. That share rises to 40 percent for the next year and 100 percent starting on May 1, 2018.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still very much pro-Tesla, and might even consider replacing my Leaf if Tesla proves me wrong on most of the above. But, I just still have a bad taste in my mouth by the way the S base model turned out. I can still remember Musk touting "$50,000 car" and "250 mile range" in the same interview, as if it was the same model, when we all knew better. Call me pessimistic, but being a publicly-traded company, I'm afraid Musk plays to the cameras a bit to much to keep his stock price rising.