I understand the risk in beta-testing autonomous vehicles on public roads. However, nothing you’re describing is unusual for a human driver. If anything, I’ve seen worse from people.

I have not-so-fond memories of this era of design. That lo-fi, grunge aesthetic was still a thing, digital was the new thing and the design industry had really embraced desktop publishing. The days of cobbling layouts together by hand were dead.

Given the damage on that Tesla, how it’s wedged under the firetruck, it’s a safe bet that the car did start braking at some point.

I disagree... This generation is when Civics started getting ugly. But it also goes to show that nostalgia is a big factor in what people find attractive.

I’m on board with Messi being one of the greatest footballers of all time. However, I think it helps that he’s playing in a league populated by relative pushovers. Not that he wouldn’t still be one of the best, but it wouldn’t be quite so easy for him. Whenever I’ve seen him play against good teams in the Champion’s…

Any way you slice it, what Apple did was crap. If they were legitimately concerned about consumers they would have been clear about what they had done and would have provided an option to disable the feature.

Dude stfu

That bit didn’t bother me at all. It was huge swaths of the rest of the movie that irked me. Sure, The Last Jedi was entertaining, but the contrivances, plotholes and disparate threads were all problems.

As much as I’ve hated the grille, I feel like it’s become such a distinctive element for Lexus that I would be very reluctant to replace it.

While the LFA was an awesome car, one of my favorites, it was far too expensive to be relevant to the brand. From the beginning I felt that Lexus would have followed Audi’s lead and developed something more like the R8. It’s still a supercar, but priced low enough that you actually have a chance of seeing them in…

I finally got around to watching The Last Jedi last week and while it was very entertaining the plot was a complete and utter mess. There were things that bothered me about TFA, but it’s a better movie by virtue of featuring a simpler story.

So where and when will we be able to buy one of these?

I disabled most gesture controls on my MacBook Pro because I kept finding myself accidentally triggering actions. About the only thing I use it for is to switch between spaces.

It’s tamer than the current generation. In fact, except for the awkward lines around the wheel arches it looks a bit generic. On the other hand, it’s not offensive, so that’s a positive.

VW seems to go through this cycle every 15 years or so. They go bigger, more upmarket for a generation or two before they change their minds and go back to smaller and cheaper.

They offer it because in the rest of the world everyone buys the 1.4 liter, assuming something smaller isn’t available. When gasoline is expensive or you’re taxed on displacement performance drops on the list of priorities.

I don’t know why, but I find closeups of people chewing food to be revolting. I wouldn’t position myself inches from someone’s face while they’re shoving food in their mouth, so I definitely don’t want to see that in a video.

Funny you should mention that; I have a Panasonic 1080p plasma TV. For all the fears of burn-in I haven’t had any problems. If you look really closely, on an all-white background, you can see the faintest hint of fading where a 4:3 image cuts off. Otherwise it’s impossible to notice.

I never felt the need for heated seats until I got a car with leather. Now I use them all winter long. They’re like a blanket, keeping me comfortable well before the rest of the car has warmed up. That said, our second car has cloth and I don’t miss the heated seats when I get in that car.

To be fair, this is a new car from a new automaker. Problems are to be expected. There’s a reason why Honda and Toyota are so reliable beyond rigorous quality control. They’re more conservative about implementing new tech and emphasize iterative updates over major overhauls.