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Tesla Model S range edges closer to 400 miles - Engadget

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When Elon Musk said the Tesla Model S was close to achieving 400 miles on a charge, he wasn't kidding. Tesla has updated the electric luxury sedan's stats once again to give it an EPA estimated range of 390 miles (previously 373 miles) in Long Range Plus trim. You could theoretically drive from New York City to Pittsburgh with enough battery life left to go on a brief tour. The Model X, meanwhile, is now estimated to drive 351 miles on a charge instead of the earlier 328 miles.

Real-life results are bound to vary based on the temperature, your use of climate control and your driving habits. However, Musk added that the new figures might be conservative. He claimed that Model S and X cars made in "recent months" can perform better than their official EPA numbers suggest, and that this potential will be made accessible "soon" through a software update. That's likely comforting news for new owners still grappling with the winter chill's effect on their range, and hints that the magic 400-mile benchmark might already be achievable.

You might not want to rush out to get one of these EVs (not that they're what you'd call an impulse buy) if you can afford to wait. Tesla plans to roll out its Plaid powertrain later in 2020, and that combined with a battery capacity increase could offer a substantially larger range boost. Even so, these latest tweaks could make all the difference if you intend to use your Tesla for cross-country jaunts. The question is whether or not these improvements will translate to further gains for cars like the Model 3 and Model Y -- extra range at the high end only matters so much if just a fraction of Tesla's customers can see the benefits.

Via: Electrek
Source: Tesla (Model S), (Model X), Elon Musk (Twitter)
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American Airlines passenger in seat recliner controversy wants to press charges, flight attendant fired - Fox News

The woman who said her reclined seat was repeatedly punched by an airline passenger sitting behind her, now says she wants to press charges against him.

Wendi Williams, who posted a now-viral video of the tense encounter, said the unidentified man should be charged with assault. What’s more, she said the attendant on the American Eagle flight (a subsidiary of American Airlines) should be fired.

“I want to know who he is. I would like to press charges against this man. I was assaulted on this plane,” Williams told TMZ on Friday.

“I want to know who he is. I would like to press charges against this man. I was assaulted on this plane,”  said Wendi Williams. (Photo: iStock)

“I want to know who he is. I would like to press charges against this man. I was assaulted on this plane,”  said Wendi Williams. (Photo: iStock)

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“Everybody thinks that when I say he was punching me, that’s what was happening in the video. I started taking the video because he was punching my seat, literally.”

The dispute between the two passengers was over Williams' reclining her seat, which the man complained took up his space. He asked her to put up her seat while he ate, and Williams said she obliged. However, she reclined her chair again once when he finished.

That’s when she said he began violently punching it. Williams said she thought filming the man would make him stop his “ridiculous” antics.

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“It happened every 20-30 seconds. It probably happened eight times. That’s when I started videoing,” she said.

Williams also aimed her frustration at the flight attendant, Loretta, who she said threatened to remove her from the aircraft if she didn’t delete the video recording.

The airline worker handed Williams a “Passenger Disturbance Notice” that warned of federal prosecution.

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“I had my hand raised as I was videoing him so that I would get the flight attendant’s attention. She came over to me kind of huffy,” Williams recalled.

The flight attendant, she said, instead came to the man’s defense and apologized to him for the tight space.

“I was like, are you kidding me?”  Williams said.

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An American Airlines representative told TMZ that the airline was looking into the incident and that attempts were made to deescalate the midair confrontation. The airline said that things wouldn’t have taken a nasty turn had the two passengers been respectful to each other.

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Airline passengers should ask before they recline, Delta CEO says after seat-punching video - NBC News

The CEO of Delta Air Lines, Ed Bastian, weighed in Friday on the debate sparked by a viral video of a passenger on another airline repeatedly punching the seat of a woman in front of him after she reclined it.

Bastian said passengers "have the right to recline," but that they should ask the person behind them before they do so, particularly if the passenger behind them is tall.

"I think the proper thing to do is, if you're going to recline into somebody, that you ask if it's OK first and then you do it," he said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" after being asked about reclining etiquette.

Bastian's comments come after an American Airlines passenger took a video of a man punching the back of her seat when she decided to to recline. The footage went viral and sparked debate over whether to recline your seat in the tight quarters of economy class.

The passenger, Wendi Williams, posted her video on Twitter, which showed the man behind her on a flight from New Orleans to Charlotte, North Carolina, repeatedly punching her seat after she decided to lean it back.

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"Here’s a great jackhole! He was angry that I reclined my seat and punched it about 9 times — HARD, at which point I began videoing him, and he resigned to this behavior," Williams tweeted Feb. 8 with the video.

"The other jackhole is the @AmericanAir flight attendant who reprimanded me and offered him rum!" Williams added, later noting that the airline reached out and asked for her to send a direct message to the company.

"You clearly want me to do this quietly through a DM," she said. "I’m done being quiet! I’ve had extensive neck surgeries - my cervical spine is completely fused ... I’ve lost time at work, had to visit a doctor, got x-rays, and have (had) horrible headaches for a week," Williams wrote on Twitter.

In a statement obtained by NBC News this week, American Airlines said a team was "looking into the issue.”

Bastian said Friday that Delta is trying out a reduction in the degree to which seats can recline.

"We've been testing reduced recline and seeing a response on that," Bastian said. "We actually have a fair amount of our fleet on reduced recline as a result of that."

As for the Delta CEO, who is tall himself and often travels in coach, he said he avoids reclining altogether.

"I think if someone knows there's a tall person behind them and they want to recline in their seat I think the polite thing would be to make certain it was OK," Bastian said. "I never recline because I don't think it's something, since I'm the CEO of the airline, that I should be reclining my seat, and I never say anything if someone reclines into me."

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Woman at center of seat recline controversy wants to sue American Airlines - New York Post

The American Airlines passenger whose video of a man punching the back of her reclined seat went viral this week is now threatening to sue the airline.

Wendi Williams’ video showing a fellow passenger shaking her headrest with repeated fist jabs on a Jan. 31 flight from New Orleans to Charlotte made the rounds on social media after she posted a video of the incident to Twitter on Feb. 8.

Now Williams, who claims she was injured in the incident, is after American Airlines — because the company told TMZ she knocked over the man’s drink, an allegation she denies, the gossip site reported Saturday.

Williams alleges the statement was defamatory and the flight attendant’s comments to her on the plane were slanderous — all grounds for a lawsuit, she claims.

“@AmericanAir Please refrain from placing any blame about what happened to me on your awful airline with your rude flight attendant! And if I inadvertently spilled a drink on the “man” – I had NO idea that happened. Who said it did @AmericanAir?” Williams tweeted Friday.

American Airlines is reportedly refusing to bow to Williams’ pressure, and said she called Thursday seeking compensation, a source told TMZ. She met with an attorney the next day, she told the gossip site.

The video racked up 2.4 million views by Thursday, and sparked a debate about who’s the bigger jerk — the puncher or the poster? Social media users siding with the unnamed man pointed out that he was in the last seat on the plane, which doesn’t recline, so Williams leaning back would have cut into his already-limited space.

Williams said the airline defended the man and handed her a “passenger disturbance notice” when she refused to stop filming on her cellphone. She eventually complied, but decided to post the video to social media after “exhausting every opportunity for #American Airlines to do the right thing,” she tweeted.

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Flyers Dive-Bomb Delta CEO For Suggesting They Ask Permission Before Reclining Seats - HuffPost

Flyers have a new target for their fury now that Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian has told passengers to ask permission before reclining their seats on a plane.

Bastian was responding to the heated debate about a viral Twitter post showing a male passenger on an American Airlines flight filmed repeatedly punching the seat of the woman in front of him for reclining.

“I think customers have the right to recline,” Bastian said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Friday. “But I think that the proper thing to do is if you’re going to recline into somebody, that you ask if it’s OK first, and then you do it.”

That’s when flyers on Twitter stopped fighting among themselves about reclining, and turned on Bastian — and airlines — for making their lives miserable by jamming more money-making seats into their travel space.

Filmmaker Judd Apatow noted on Twitter that passengers “pay to recline.” Now “you want to create a situation where we all have to negotiate and fight with each other? Are you mad?”

Actress Rosanna Arquette suggested a boycott.

ESPN Florida radio host Josh Cohen had an idea: Bastian could take a pay cut and remove three rows of seats to give passengers some elbow room.

Buzz Patterson, a Republican congressional candidate in California, also suggested some Delta adjustments to the “sardine-can seats.”

Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked her viewers on Twitter what they thought about Bastian’s suggestion.

“What would Bernie do?” asked one wag. Another told her to just focus on the Justice Department story.

Last year, Delta retrofitted its Airbus A320 jets to reduce the recline of the coach seats from 4 inches to 2 inches (and first-class seats from 5.5 inches to 3.5 inches).

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Delta Airlines CEO Says Passengers Should Get Permission To Recline Seats - The Daily Wire

Have airline companies become so fattened within their ivory tower of monopoly rule that CEOs can no longer grasp the meaning of customer service? The latest reaction from Delta’s top brass Ed Bastian regarding the viral story about a rude American Eagle passenger slugging the reclined seat in front of him indicates that may be so.

Earlier this week, a 45-second video clip went viral on social media, showing a man passive-aggressively punching a woman’s reclined seat ahead of him while aboard an American Eagle flight, picking up millions of views and thousands of retweets.

The clip intensely divided the internet, with some people sympathizing with the man, believing that the woman had acted rudely by reclining her seat in the first place, given that the person behind her was in the final row. Others believed the man mishandled the situation and should have raised his discomfort with the flight attendant instead of acting so aggressively. Weighing in on the situation Friday was none other than Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian, who said that passengers should now learn to ask permission before reclining in their (bought and paid for) seats.

“I think customers have the right to recline,” Bastian said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I think the proper thing to do is if you’re going to recline into somebody that you ask if it’s okay first and then you do it.”

Bastian added that he never reclines, believing it unbecoming of a man in his position to do so.

“I never recline, because I don’t think it’s something as CEO I should be doing,” Bastian said. “I never say anything if someone reclines into me.”

People on social media roundly mocked Ed Bastian’s suggestion that passengers now have some unwritten duty to ask to recline their seats from now on.

“Guys: the blame for lack of cabin/reclining seat-related comfort is the airlines. Not your fellow passengers. Blaming them is like blaming the steerage passengers on the Titanic,” tweeted Clare Jeffery of Mother Jones.

“Dear Delta CEO, if you put a recliner on a seat, people should be able to use it (and not have it slam into the person behind them). If you don’t want people to recline, don’t include it, but if you include an amenity, nobody should have to ask another passenger’s permission,” tweeted entrepreneur Carol Roth. 

“No, this a cop-out by Delta. I expect my fellow travellers to extend that minute extension of the seat for comfort and health reasons. I don’t get angry at them, I get angry at Delta, and other airlines, for outfitting their aircraft as if we are cattle,” said one Twitter user. 

People were especially incensed over the fact that airlines have done nothing to fit their planes with spacious accommodations. In fact, as noted by the New York Post, airlines have been looking into efficient methods of further tightening their already tight seating spaces in the hopes of cramming more butts into the seats:

In October, it was revealed that FAA researchers were recruiting volunteers for a study into whether tighter space on planes decreased passenger safety.

However, prior to news of the study, the FAA ruled that shrinking seats did not impact consumer safety — which prompted a federal judge to respond, “That makes no sense.”

In 2017, researchers at NYU and Cardozo School of Law published a study that examined whether fighting over reclining seats could be prevented by charging passengers to recline.

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