Tesla’s Model X is finally here, and I got to drive it

“I’m not sure anyone should make this car, really. I mean, yeah. There is far more there than is really necessary to sell a car,” Musk says, trailing off. There is a genuine sense of introspection that maybe — just maybe — the Model X is over-engineered, that Tesla took on too much, and that’s why this car is multiple years late to showroom floors.

But having driven this thing today, I think the wait was worth it.

We’re in Fremont, California — home of Tesla’s 5.3 million-square-foot factory — for the official launch of the Model X crossover, a sort of pumped-up Model S that trades a small amount of performance for utility.

But what makes it so amazing? There is, to start, the fundamental matter that this is a Model S in new clothes —…

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TiVo Bolt review: watching TV faster

Back in 1999, when I first reviewed the original TiVo DVR, I griped that “TiVo has no commercial-skipping button” and noted that its press literature denounced such a feature on grounds that, while it „may appeal to the pirate in all of us, it just doesn’t make good business sense.“

It’s taken 16 years, but TiVo has finally changed its mind. Its latest model, the radically redesigned Bolt, which goes on sale this week for a base price of $300, finally lets you ditch all the ads in a blink. By simply pressing a button once, you can skip an entire block of commercials in many recorded programs, a feature called SkipMode. No more fast-forwarding and hoping you land on the right spot, or repeatedly hitting a 30-second advance button.

And…

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