There was such a huge lack of information in that first gear that I can’t even remotely take it seriously.

Sources without names. Back when I was in Intro to Reporting class, that would have gotten an F. It looks like you might be experiencing Trump Derangement Syndrome. If this lasts more than four hours, please see a physician.

Sea level discussions are only had when convenient.

Ford and I are a lot alike. We don’t really have any good ideas at the moment, but damn if we can’t find the worst possible idea for any situation.

Regarding your response to 1st gear: That’s not going to solve a damned thing. Regardless of party affiliation we need to vote for people who are willing to work together and not just run the party line. We need people who will shrink the partisan divide back to ‘historical norms’. 

Ohhh edgy. But in a good way. Star for you.

Neutral

At this point he should just start shouting #FAKENEWS! at any coverage that is critical of him or Tesla.

But I always thought bigger government and more regulations were better? Can’t we just skip all the BS and have the government nationalize the entire vehicle and transportation industry already? I mean, that’s what I learned in college. (aka Socialism is best)

Exactly this. I was just having this discussion last night. With the media sesasionalizing every fender bender with any autonomous system no one is going to want to move forward. I mean people can’t drive as it is and these systems are an added layer to compensate for these short comings. But if every emerging…

1st Gear belongs on HuffPo. Less editorial pontification please.

Good Lord, Jalopnik needs to make sure that whoever writes the morning shift isn’t allowed to read the non-car news until after it’s posted.

Aaaaah, MUCH better. Thank you.

First Gear: The belief that Federal standardization of newly developing technologies will bring about more efficient development is not new and is still as equally wrong as it ever was. It assumes that the one standard that is approved or blessed by the Federal government is the one that will win. For driverless cars,…

Jalopnik is helping kill autonomous cars with hit pieces on Uber and clickbait titles anytime a Tesla gets into a fender bender. The uneducated members of government are simply following what the media is feeding them.

By the end of the year, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had ensured that mandatory gasoline rationing was in effect in all 50 [sic] states.

“Part of the reason why you’d want federal-level rules is because driving in Chandler, Arizona, is wildly different from driving in the middle of Baltimore, Maryland.”

That patchwork quilt created by said dereliction the fundamental constitutional feature, federalism, is enabling other countries to absolutely leapfrog the United States in terms of autonomous vehicle technology growth without a deliberate consideration of the benefits and risks of these technologies.

Have you considered maybe not owning Fords?

I don’t know which group is crazier, the super pro trump or the super anti trump