That’s horrifying! Having cars rust out that quickly is genuinely unimaginable to me - If you buy a car here, if it’s been reasonably well kept, if it’s anything less than ten years old, any noticable or notable rust is a big red flag. I’ve seen plenty of cars that are 20 years old, and barely have any rust. If you…

Yeah, I gotta say, I don’t know much about Cleveland(Though oddly, I do know the editor of the Amherst News-Times, small world) but I’ve heard a lot of bad things about what the road salt does to a car. That certainly makes for an impressive lifespan - Mine is 28 years old and has never seen a salted road, and she’s…

Aw man, that’s cool to hear! Thanks for telling me about it - despite their problems, they really work a pretty bloody good workhorse vehicle, and as I said in the initial post, surprisingly fun to drive.

I don’t think the Vannette was sold in the US

Either that, or it just hadn’t burned down yet. The issue with them was that the engine was simply too big for the engine bay it was in, which left no room for heat dissipation - since it’s under the vehicle, and heat rises, it would just build up till it burst into flame, and like a pyromaniac with wooden legs,…

Well, I’m not going to say it was an aspirational goal - but I’ve definitely become fond of it over time.

And I must admit, I take a different view. It doesn’t matter so much about what you’re seeking out, it’s just having the love for it, that’s what’s important. Doesn’t matter if you drive a clapped out old van, or a…

I think I’ll wait for the one inspired my Armie Hammer.

Yeah man, for real! It’s wicked late here in Australia(just crossed 2:30am, working late), but I’ll get in touch tomorrow morning.

I drive something that’s not only rare in my own country, it has single digits on the road in the US, AND it has made the top spot of multiple “Worst vehicle in the world” lists - A 1990 Nissan Vanette, a vehicle known pretty much solely for spontaneously self-immolating, and that Nissan recalled all of them in the US…

And over there where the age of consent is 14

Mine was the “Coast to coast, unassisted autonomous drive” they were going to make by 2017 in 2016, then by the end of 2017 in 2017, and now by the end of 2018. You always make a good pot on that, because you get both the starry-eyed Tesla devotees AND the Self driving fans who perpetually think it’s just around the…

On marketing? I’d be frankly stunned if the collective ad-spend of every major automaker put together made it much past a billion in a single year. If they did, then they absolutely would not cross over the 2 billion dollar mark to justify calling it “Billions.” Certainly no single automaker spends even close to a…

Not only does Tesla not spend money advertising

I remember in my youth people tried that at a festival site. It would have worked - but they didn’t account for organizers sweeping the grounds with metal detectors and finding almost all of the buried cartons.

Back in the day, the style my mates and I preferred was to conceal as much as possible in our cars. We did…

Ah, just a pretty informal betting pool usually, plus an old fashioned bookie from time to time.

although they do differ slightly, NASCAR came from boot leggers running illegal alcohol, and the aussie V8 supercars are still running booze

Based on that tweet, I immediately made a small bet that Tesla would not be profitable in Q3 & Q4. I mean, let’s be honest, I’ve already made a decent enough amount betting basically opposite to anything Elon promises, so why not, I’m just re-betting winnings at this point.

There’s a world of difference between “Would have also hit a firetruck, after the large vehicle in front pulled into a different lane” and “Driving into a known stationary barrier at highway speed.”

There’s a world of difference between “Realtively minor traffic accident” and “Complete write-off of the vehicle and…

I know - but that’s precisely why I added the part about “Or at least mitigated enough”. With that type of sensor package, you’re never going to solve it completely without basically completely re-writing the book on computer vision and small-scale radar systems.

So, I have a question - if it’s just the fault of the media, and people freaking out because it’s a new technology, why is it that almost every other version of this technology, even versions that use the same Camera/Radar sensor package, don’t have these issues, and haven’t just not killed as many people, but haven’t…