What law says you have to drive at the posted limit? Also, people don’t just dart out into the road, the amount of time that it takes a person to run into the road is more than enough time to stop a car. You’re just not not used to thinking in that way because the majority of the time required for a human to stop a…

Human drivers swerve around things all the time. Automous cars are not human drivers. They won’t drive too fast for conditions or put themselves in a situation where they can’t stop in time. They will be programmed to be the slowest most cautious vehicles on the road. You have to make a whole series of mistakes…

Well, you need to be at least 17% more efficient within 3 years to hit the Paris targets. You were planning on meeting the CO2 reduction targets weren’t you?

That’s completely wrong. If he buys a new car his old car doesn’t cease to exist and neither does the energy invested in its manufacture. The energy invested in the new car also results in the same number of potential vehicle miles whether it’s manufactured today or next year. Total US fleet efficiency goes up with…

So you might at some unspecified point in the future buy a fuel efficient car? Godspeed Manwich, mighty climate warrior.

Saving a buck is what will drive energy savings, automotive or otherwise. It doesn’t matter how much people say they want to help the environment unless they are willing to put up their own money it’s just virtue signaling, just like the Paris Climate Accords.

Go be poor somewhere else.

How exactly is this a surprise? Trump promised many times that he’d destroy ISIS.

With a NA 4 cyl? I don’t think you’d even break the speed limit in Texas.

The 500 was also a bargaining chip for McLaren’s sponsors who were, let’s say, “displeased” with the amount of screen time they’ve received in F1. Getting a free Indy 500 sponsorship was a nice bonus.

If you leave your windshield up you’re a pussy.

I would bet that same engine has a cover in other vehicles or markets. A Fiesta is an upgrade in Europe, so the buyers there might care enough about noise to justify the extra cost. They just use the same studs everywhere to save cost.

I think the difference in the heavy equipment industries is that you have people tracking downtime. If you can get a tractor back in service one hour quicker you might save $1000. If your car is out of service for an extra hour, well you were going to pick it up tomorrow anyway.

Which ground breaking Taurus are you talking about, the 86 Taurus that was a huge success or the 96 Taurus which was a huge failure? Taking risks is a double edged sword.

A lot of it is just personal preference and personally I think the Mazda interior looks like a 1996 Pontiac. Add the fact that red gauges make me want to vomit and there’s no way I’d buy a car with that interior. The Ford on the other hand looks nice but feels cheep but not so cheap that I wouldn’t buy it.

Just a guess but there may be different requirements for brightness or total lamp area that make all red lamps advantages in the US.

They might not be developed by the big 3 but they will be built by the big 3.

Once, my sister called me because she locked her keys in her car. Luckily I was nearby so I drove over there, opened the passenger door and handed her the keys. She had only locked the drivers door.

Look at the tires and wheels on that thing. I’m surprised it made it as far as it did.

It’s not as straight forward as you’re saying. If you reduce the cargo capacity of each truck you now need more trucks to deliver the same amount of cargo. With more trucks on the road there will be an increased number of collisions and deaths in addition to increased pollution and pollution related deaths. So in…