Makes sense... An autonomous car won’t be a hazard to anybody if it can’t even start.

Engineers have known about much of this for decades. The limitations have come from being able to manufacture these engines cheaply and efficiently while ensuring they’re reliable. There’s a lot more room for experimentation on race cars because they can rebuild the engine after every race, and in relative terms, cost…

This looks like an update to the iM, which is more or less derived from the Corolla overseas. That would explain why it looks so much better than the US-market Corolla. Hopefully it will come with more horsepower than the current models. I’d like to see more cheap, reliable, sporty cars that don’t that aren’t…

Social media is like alcohol. It’s fine in moderation, but easy to abuse. Arguing about Facebook versus something else is like arguing about wine versus beer.

Every single time someone comes up with a new, unsafe and stupid mod defenders are quick to point out its legality. Just because laws haven’t caught up doesn’t make them legal. Typically regulations involve a set of conditions. The main reason certain things get specifically called out is because of those…

You can get rubber o-rings that eliminate most of the sound, assuming you’re using linear or tactile switches.

We need a Wolfenstein mod that teaches people to read before they comment.

It’s funny... On first glance, I thought that frontal shot of the McLaren was a composite of multiple photos with the doors gradually open. It took a moment to realize those were the various contours and openings in the doors. They look fantastic, like an abstract sculpture... And I love the car in that color.

0-60 in 10-12 seconds is not uncommon in most of the world. It’s just that Americans have been spoiled. Here a comparable class of car is doing it in 8-9 seconds. The difference between the Prius and econoboxes overseas is that it gives you the fuel economy of a diesel.

Commercials feature 3D rendered cars all the time and they’re indistinguishable from the real thing. So why does this promo feel so cheesy and fake? It seems to me like they were going for the video game aesthetic, but it’s one of those things where you have to really embrace it or it feels like a mistake.

Ignoring the obvious blue=electricity, there seems to have been a shift from green to blue to represent concepts like sustainability. I’ve had a few clients specifically not want to use green. Blue is a perpetually safe corporate color and there was a perception that green was being overused. That’s always an odd…

I assume by much better you mean almost identical. I’m struggling to see how those tiny variations make any difference at all.The perspective in these two photos is too varied and the S60's is unclear.

It’s a known problem that infrastructure projects cost significantly more in the United States than anywhere in the developed world, including Japan and Germany. One of the big factors driving that is time spent on the project; they take longer to complete here than anywhere else. Another big problem is how these…

Downgrade? It’s all relative. You can’t push your personal experience on everyone else.

I’ll venture a guess that this is going to turn out like that WRX concept in that it will be a regular Impreza with some extra body trim. Not that I mind, necessarily, because I like the styling on the current Impreza wagon.

And then you get what happens in Europe where individuals engage in massive tax evasion. Remember the Panama papers?

Tim Brooks, the company’s vice president of corporate social responsibility, said in a press release that builders won’t notice the difference once the plant-based polyethylene pieces hit the market.

You can’t make a judgement call on technology that’s still in it’s relative infancy. If unpredictability and challenge are important to you, perhaps you should get a horse. Or maybe a chariot if you really need wheels. But if internal combustion is a mandatory, then a 1908 Model T might do the job. Those all require a…

There’s a brain drain in government. Anyone with any kind of ability ends up taking a better paying and/or more fulfilling job in the corporate world. So the only people who generally get into government are incompetent or power hungry. It’s hard for those who actually do care. More than once I’ve seen people in my…

I would have thought that problems are more due to the pay-to-play structure that’s plaguing so many sports in the US. A lot of these sports are expensive both in terms of cost and time commitment. So it’s become the domain of the upper-middle classes and wealthy. From what I’ve observed these activities are regarded…