I think you greatly overestimate the value of that data to competing car manufacturers.

In Los Angeles, as with other crazy Los Angeles based stories, there were converging interests with real estate schemes at the center. The rail was sometimes paid for by real estate developers in remote communities like Pasadena, but run by the electric companies as a means to sell electricity. Once those developments…

You don’t think their competitors can’t just take any car off the streets, put an OBDII plug into the port and get that info now? They can just select a sample population of those vehicle owners that gives a statistically representative population and get data in a usable sample size.

What would stop Google/Apple from monitoring/recording and collecting the driving habits and movements of each and every driver?

It’s even wierder since they say that Sync3 will include Android Auto and Apple Car Play.

Transit stopped being profitable in the 1950s in Los Angeles. It was privately owned. Then they sold the lines to transit authorities of the time, where they became huge money sinks with pathetically low ridership.

That happened in Los Angeles, which is ironically one of the few cities GM had nothing to do with. The light rail lines were privately owned. They were losing money, and finally sold the rail lines to the city. The way the city was growing, when it came time to replace the 30 year old cars, the city needed different…

This is incorrect. They are capable of building a decent economy car. It’s called Opels. The only problem is, instead of bringing them in as Chevys to give GM some of the best economy and mid range cars, they bring them in only as Buicks. But not the most economy of them.

I want to see some autonomous car demonstrations conducted entirely in thick, low visibility fog. I mention this, because my wife’s car has a front facing camera-based collision avoidance system, which completely ceased to function with an obnoxious warning on the console display when she was driving back from…

I like the Sabine Schmitz part of the team. That’s about it.

This whole phenomenon is so hilariously “everything revolves around me” millenial. Who want to change all of the rules of civilization to make life more convenient for themselves. Seats on airplanes that have tilted back and have been a right of passengers for 60 years? “FUCK YOU! My right to slouch in my seat and not…

Well, I couldn’t find any reports of a human being killed by a bobcat. Attacked, yes, killed no.

Jar Jar Binks and Ewoks.

This video has the two best things on the Internet: cats and epic fire.

Think of the sacrifice drivers make when they take a passenger. They’re adding around 200 lbs to the mass of their very light cars, which increases their lap times. Every 35 lbs you add, is like losing 5 horsepower (a rule of thumb that stops working below 1500 lbs or so).

Largely “crossover” means “tall hatchback” with the suspension jacked up four inches higher.In some cases, station wagon jacked up higher.

When I smoked cigarettes, I really never looked at the packaging. I had my brands that I liked because of the taste, and I couldn’t even tell you what the packaging looked like.

Reds, yellows, and bright blues, get you more unwanted attention from the constabulary, and everyone knows this.

Is an Outback a CUV or a station wagon? I can only say, whatever they are they’re so popular it’s nigh impossible to go to a lot and just buy one, without “waiting for the next shipment”. If they still make a non-Outback Legacy Wagon, they aren’t available in Southern California.

The reason so many of them have oil leaks, is because people really rack up the miles in Subarus before they part with them. When we were still considering buying a used Outback, our Subaru driving friends told us “150,000 miles is still an infant in Subaru years”. But we bought a new one, because the used ones…