I can smell the fish sandwich someone is eating 3 rows away. The air might be purified, but the air in the cabin volume still circulates in a very enclosed space. If someone coughs, some of the particles will spread far through the cabin.

5th Gear. Has there even been any talk of creating an electric car charging interface standards group in the US?

You’re not going to get much of an infrastructure going if Teslas, Leafs, Volts, Bolts, i3s, etc...all have their own proprietary and patent protected interface.

This isn’t an “attack on Harley Davidson”. It’s an attack on Honda and other brands. It’s a competitor to the Gold Wing, CTX 1300, ST1300, FJR1300, or Concours 1300. It’s still a “sport tourer” and not a “cruiser”.

People buy Harleys because they want Harleys. It’s that simple. Someone just looking for a touring bike,…

I’d say we already have if people in Philly are saying “The” in front of their highway numbers.

To be fair, Philly style cheesesteaks are pretty popular in LA. Most are inferior, a few are superior (unless you really really like Cheese Wiz or Velveeta) , and none have the right bread.

The longer Maserati waits to develop their electric car, the more battery they get for the money. It’s entirely possible they’ll have batteries other than lithium-ion available for the car by the time they have to contract for their battery supplier.

You do realize that you are encouraging people to hit bored teens with their cars, don’t you? Pretty sure no one’s going to actually do it, but clowns are just people in costumes. Or idiot people in costumes, but still people.

“THE 76".

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. It’s all part of the SoCal agenda.

Are some people just born without survival skills?

Losing $30 million in cars and then have the insurance weasel out of it, is not a straw. That’s a 400 pound dude wearing 350 lbs of armor sitting  on that camel’s back without a saddle.

Early adapters of anything always have crap to deal with. Maybe it’s not true of electronics anymore, but it used to be. Fisker had a…

Or an AWD with four motors.

I want a sub $35K AWD nutso electric hatchback. Sounds like a Tesla Model 3 will probably be your jam.
 

He’s also too self centered to give 100 percent to any company he works for at this point.

Wasn’t Fisker really done in by Hurricane Sandy? As I recall, he was stiffed by the insurance companies. It was bad luck that sunk him.

We never really got to find out how it all would have worked out.

I experienced a little of that in the visual effects industry. Unfortunately when you are a “contractor” as opposed to an “employee”, you’re wasting your time in a California court trying to sue an entertainment industry company for age discrimination.

Go into any VFX studio, look around and count the number of people…

The rear stays planted, but all that torque being put down makes the front end light and squirrely. But hey, it seems to be able to keep the truck pointed in the right direction. So that’s all the matters.

Hence the push for fully autonomous cars. So you can not pay attention all you want. The more autonomous cars on the road, the safer being in any vehicle gets. Or being a pedestrian. And I would assume (or at least hope) they wouldn’t be approved if they couldn’t deal with bicycles and lane splitting motorcycles (lane…

The idea is valid. After the first year or so. That first year, you’d see a huge spike in deaths.

Isn’t that price slightly above the requirement for LeMons? It seems like it would make a perfect LeMons project.

Very, very few collisions fall into the “totally random and unexpected” category. Most are in the “both parties weren’t paying attention” or “one wasn’t paying attention and the other held their ‘right of way’” category.

It’s not a test for the autonomous cars. It’s a human test to show how HUMANS would make the choice. It’s designed to make us look bad compared to the machines. Which we will.

I wouldn’t say that’s unfair at all. Or true. In the case of Christina, I’m pretty sure she’s taller than her male teamate. And he could stand to lose a few pounds :)

Sabine Schmitz is 5'8, which isn’t short either.

However, there are a lot of smaller women. More racing teams should take advantage of their size and…