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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Hertz is also famous for renting Mustang GTs which are much faster and much more likely to be driven aggressively.

I’m guessing it has more to do with the misconceptions around “self-driving” that these cars don’t even include.

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anon232@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I wouldn’t say a mustang GT is any faster. Most EV’s have a sub 5 second 0-60, which is what a Musang GT has. EVs are just incredibly fast, especially Teslas.

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- helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I wouldn’t say a mustang GT is any faster.
  
  Well if you said anything different you’d simply be wrong.
  
  Most EV’s have a sub 5 second 0-60
  
  This isn’t “most EVs”, this is a Tesla Model 3 standard range (AKA RWD).
  
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Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, but they usually only don’t have a lot of those things on the lot to rent. They have a butt load of Model 3s. My guess is that it’s a numbers game.

They also have a ton of data and footage to tell them what people are doing when they’re getting into accidents, and after looking at that stuff, they’re choosing to basically put these cars into a form of valet mode to limit acceleration.

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