That is stupid and should be illegal IMO.

“Now, we don’t want to lock the cars and say you can’t modify them,” says Kuniskis. “We just want to lock them and say modify them through us so that we know that it’s done right.”

Good take.

I’ll write a follow-up: Stop Blaming Your Traffic-Filled Commute and Just Admit You Want an Automatic.

Driving a stick in traffic is not a big deal if you’re not an old-timer.

Je suis prêt.

I thought Rivian was going to start delivering in September, delayed from this month.

“Internal combustion engines will eventually go the way of vinyl”

*Sobs quietly in Z24*

Services vs features seems to be where most people’s dividing line will be, I’d think. Sirius, OnStar, MAYBE connected autonomous driving, then probably. Heated seats, extra power, etc, absolutely not.

This reminds me of that story about the guy who bought a used Tesla Model S, and the previous owner purchased FSD (or whatever it’s called now; the self driving). After the sale, Tesla disabled the feature because the second owner “didn’t pay” for it. I’m not sure what happened with that case, but with this…

None. They can kiss my ass.

Call me crazy, but I would, through tools and/or by hand, put channels in different buckets based on their content and the profile of their viewers and then have people who buy advertisement space on Twitch chose in what bucket / combination of buckets they want their ads to go.

Then there are Ford owners

“Acording to Tesla...”

I’m sure we can all trust Elon....

“ It also lacks Autopilot.”

When you get to a certain point in your driving career, one tends to find that no matter how much better the safety systems you describe become, they will never be so good that they outperform a well trained driver in most situations, and frequently are more obtrusive than you think. As an example, the programming on…

I really don’t get the love of adaptive cruise. To me, if there is too much traffic for regular cruise control, there is too much traffic to not be 100% driving to start with. And every single car I have driven with it does random dumb shit, like nailing the brakes in a curve because it thinks a car on the other side…

If the active safety stuff is saving you, you are a shitty driver to start with.

ABS is fine, airbags too provided they don’t fire shrapnel into your face (Takata). Hell, I even like seatbelts. My car doesn’t move without all occupants wearing one. Most stability controls that I have used are only used to cut throttle when your boot gets a little too heavy on a slick surface. I can happily live…

The difference is people will miss Blockbuster. 

Just for full context, “.. something that they fought* into law to do business in the state”. We’re not demanding here that the dealer lobby drop their lawsuits, we’re merely venting that they are anti-consumer (and some are right scumbags), and making the case for alternatives.