I used to respect Lutz. But he is not the automotive god that many think he is. His windbag personality, complete with his Brillopad voice and stogie in-hand, wore on me. He has been full of Monday morning quarterback opinions with very little in the way of reading the future. And when it came to the ease at which GM c…

“And all of the dealer networks had learned in the meantime that you don’t screw the customer if you want to stay in business.”

I came here to say this. I had a silver ‘88 with a 5 speed, and I swear it was faster than my brother's Fox body mustang.

There’s a pretty long list of lame cars I loved, but one that stands out is from when my parents were shopping for a new car in 1990. They tested a pretty decent selection of stuff and I eagerly tagged along as a budding car geek. But when they went to check out a Dodge Colt Vista, the last one on the lot had sold and…

The Pontiac Grand Prix hit all the right buttons for my 7-year-old self. It looked amazing, those grid-pattern tail lights tattoo’d themselves on my brain, and it’s the first car I remember hearing a distinctive exhaust note from.

I’m going to show my age a little here, but when I was a kid, walking through the neighborhood I always loved the Nissan Pulsar NX SEs. Likely for the tail lights alone because the rest of the car was biblically terrible. Leaking t-top roof, cramped interior with a pitiful layout, and a thrashy but slow drivetrain.

I hang my head in embarrassment here, but only halfway.

I was bonkers in love with my aunt’s ‘89 Sundance RS Turbo. It was white with a gold rocker panel, tan seats with red stripes and a tan and red leather steering wheel. I wanted one so bad I ended up with a ‘93 Sundance v6. Unfortunately mine did not have striped seats.

I was a kid in the 1970's:

To be fair, I’m a human and I’m not sure what I’d do if I were surrounded by a pack of dickheads on unicycles.

Ever had a kid run out from behind a parked car right in front of you?

If it’s a choice between running over a pedestrian and crossing the line where there are no cars or other dangers at the moment, you’re damn right I’ll cross that line! No matter how much I would want to hit those assholes who are just out there trying to cause problems. 

Because the law says you are responsible for slowing down and ensuring you don’t hit someone in front of you. In the case of the moron that went across both lanes and turned back toward the Waymo, an investigation into a collision would have laid charges against the idiot on the uniwheel.

true, a bunch of jags on scooters with lights all over them taunting and harassing cars trying to cause an accident to prove the cars, not them, are dangerous!

you go into a court room and argue that you are not liable for hitting a person with your car because the only alternative was swerving across a yellow line with no car on the other side of it, you’re going to lose that case. 

Do the unicycles have licenses and registration?  If not, how are they legally allowed in the lane of traffic?  This seems like they purposefully intended to menace a robot car, record it, then catch all the clicks and profit.

Perhaps going on the other side of the yellow line isn’t great, but it’s not like it was doing it randomly. These guys were purposely trolling the car, as evident by the video posted

In October 2023, a human driver hit a woman crossing the street, throwing her into the path of a Cruise robotaxi that dragged her 20 feet and pinned her to the ground.

Just feels all rage baitey to me. No one can actually be this stupid. Right?

They greatly underestimated the thirst for affordable and efficient utility vehicles since they were riding high on the sales of F-Series pickups that start at $40k+. A lot of people would buy two mavericks instead of one F250 for their business if they had the option but nobody really offered anything like it until…