Because NHTSA used their rulemaking authority, after being lobbied by interest groups, to require emergency egress from trunks by issuing FMVSS 401. You can probably lobby NHTSA all you want, or at least until it’s disbanded; but you aren’t going to get any new rulemaking for the next four years.

You can even use an agile philsophy to generate your ISO26262 (Functional Safety for Road Vehicles) artifacts. The later artifacts, like the safety goals and technical safety requirements, become user stories for future planning increments and sprints.

The dictionary allows either:

It’s not really valid though. There’s three numbers, the variable cost per unit, the margin per unit, and the fixed costs that get amortized over volume.

Using your phone as a key.

“It’s one that gives the Nautilus more than 500 miles 148 leauges of range per tank, too.

Nope. As I mentioned in my followup comment, I owned a ‘93 as my DD, and put ~120k miles on it.

But I did own one. I put about 120,000 miles on a ‘93 Ranger extended cab with the V6 and 5 speed. Every time I wanted to haul something more than a couple of bags of mulch; the bed was too small. Every morning and afternoon commute was an uncomfortable jounce down the road. Every long road trip was a punishing…

Generally, the compact pickup trucks of the late 20th century, specifically, he 1983-1992 version of the Ford Ranger.

Not only would I buy this for $2500, I would spend money to restore it and take it to all the car shows. I tire of seeing endless rows of mid-60s GTOs and Bel-Airs, a mid-90s Chevy would be just the thing to make shows interesting.

Also, calling this a ‘test track’ is a bit of an oversell. It’s a barely more than a tarted-up parking surface:

“Two elementary school students were seriously injured while on a field trip to Ford’s test track in Auburn Hills, Michigan”

When I first enrolled my child in driver’s ed; they specifically mentioned not to put Student Driver stickers on the car. Their reasoning was that people wouldn’t drive normally around them and they wouldn’t develop any “drive in traffic” skills.

The Bayesian sinks, killing one defendant; and the other is killed by a car collision. What are the odds of that?

Allow me to defend stop/start:

I think the first should read:

Some changes to the buiding codes. New construction should include wiring for 220V home chargers; and maybe a minimum number of chargers for multi-family buildings. I’d also amend the commercial zoning code to reduce the number parking spaces per floor area.

It’s a bit of a hedge on Musk’s part. The walls are closing in on Tesla’s FSD/Autopilot, from the DoJ, SEC, and NHTSA. The existing hardware on Teslas will never achieve SAE level5, and everybody knows it.[1] A second Trump term, implementing Project 2025, would stop these investigations.

The bumpers may be missing; but that’s a functional hood scoop.  You can see the air intake in the engine compartment shot.

I agree that the castings have changed the body-in-white; but moving to the gigacasting hasn’t changed the exterior styling. Tesla’s design language, excepting the CT, is stale. That was also my point of brining up the long leads between unveiling and production for the CT. Normal OEMs get criticized for this, and so…