Correct, although I am more worried about the transition from rain to freezing rain.
One thing I do in adverse conditions is periodically test traction through either braking or quick acceleration to let me know how slick it is. I wonder how automated cars will deal with changing conditions...just drive annoying slow…

Some things I don’t understand. Was this a legal event? Was it private?

As with all protests of such things, you wonder why the protesters can’t simply not go there on that day.

As others have commented, this is likely intended to be a limited run proof of engineering, more than a design statement.

That would probably work for slow speeds, but even a good controller does not have as much accuracy as a steering wheel and pedals, let alone feedback. There is no way I would trust a car to be driven at speed with a controller.
Maybe after years of proofing that would be an acceptable stop gap, but I don’t think we…

I’m sorry but this is just incomprehensibly stupid. Even if we pretend autonomous tech and software is more evolved than it really is at this stage, there are still fringe situations where you will need to be able to control a car for.
When you pull in a driveway, how will this know where to park?
The same in a parking…

You didn’t say it, I did. Because ingress/egress is the only excuse for high ground clearance unless you are offroading (which we all know nobody does in new SUV/CUV’s that aren’t Jeeps or Land Rovers).

I feel like this would be a much better vehicle if it was 2-3 inches lower. It would have the same internal room, but…

Well part of the problem is that cars now are not what they were in the 90's. Cadillac has massively improved their quality control since the 90's, while BMW still has good initial quality but now has overly complicated and overly-dependent electronics in their newer cars, that make them prone to failure.

I have two…

Spoken like someone who has maintained neither a German nor an American car in their lives.
My personal experience has shown the opposite to be true by quite a large margin.

That would make sense under normal circumstances, but the car is obviously drinking coolant, and so they need to test until they determine the issue (or just go ahead and assume its a headgasket like everyone fucking knows it is).
The only way your logic should apply is if the customer claims there is an issue that the…

You’re only argument that holds any water is that it’s easier to load a kid into a CUV because it’s got (otherwise pointless) ground clearance. If a wagon has less storage or rear seat space that is because it’s a smaller vehicle. The problem is there are very few larger wagons left, and many of them like the Flex are…

Sorry but the Flex is a great vehicle. As much space as a minivan or large SUV, but better handling than any of them, and the ecoboost makes them decently quick as well.

Neutral: No, not really. I mean if I lived close I would go, but I am not driving 3 hours, and paying the big ticket price (plus likely parking) to see nothing interesting that I can’t see on a dealer lot.
NAIAS is supposed to be about concepts, and hopefully auto-enthusiast focused concepts, but lately it’s all been…

Ugh...this looks to be just as disappointing as the last few years.
I look forward to the GT500, but I’m not going to bother going if no one has any enthusiast oriented concepts or future cars.

The Evaluation fee is pretty much bullshit as the car is under a bumper to bumper warranty.

So what you are saying is that one should pay between $2000 and $5000 a year for the entire time they own their house, so that their house can maybe be worth $5k more? Then there is the hell they live through making sure that they keep up with the demands of the HOA.

Totally sounds like a fair trade.

So what they are doing is overtly ruining the neighborhood because a few people perceived that one person (literally behind closed door) was covertly ruining the neighborhood?

Logic checks out.

Let’s be honest here...did we expect anything else out of Stephen Miller?

Interesting.
The funny thing is there is this old guy that shows up to all the meets with an old Jeep Cherokee that is clad in every stick on hood scoop, stickers, and a tacky spoiler that the guy could find, and I am relatively certain he isn’t doing it ironically like the Bosozoku guys.

Helped a friend of mine move to a new house last weekend and snapped this.

I already proved this with what is in my driveway. My wife has an AWD ecoboost Flex, naturally with all season tires which are fairly new.
I took it out for a spin on our snowiest day and it sure could accelerate just fine, but when it came to stopping and turning it was a bit more sketchy.

On the other hand my Fiesta…