Oh, I'm not saying that there's no precedent or legal basis, I'm just saying it's ludicrous! :)

This. I understand why we have bankruptcy court, and why they're not responsible for prior debts, but not responsible for previous products and criminal actions? That's ludicrous.

It's better to have ballast than to have driver weight, so there would still be an incentive for drivers to be very thin. Unless you specified the position of the ballast, but the cars would have to be designed around that.

oh please, terrible driving isn't limited to the affluent.

you see oversights like this literally constantly with headlines and reports. I theorize that they're overlooked because otherwise they wouldn't have a story.

I don't think the Tesla is about being green. It's about being just a genuinely appealing car, that is also a novelty. The "appeal" of the prius or other advanced hybrids is that they are green. With the Model S, they just made a car that people would really want, even if being "green" wasn't their top priority.

Well yes, you're certainly not going to get any good PR by suing your customer for $25,000, whether or not you're right.

*if you get caught.

Yeah, honestly, often when I am speeding it's not because I think I'll get there faster, but because I find the speed limit to be intolerably boring (which is a juvenile attitude, I don't deny!)

On this day in 1931, Knute Rockne, the legendary Notre Dame football coach and namesake of the Studebaker Rockne line of autos, is killed in a plane crash near Bazaar, Kansas, at the age of 43.

I made the same mistake earlier this week. Also, if something were drifting at 3 mph (I have no idea if that's plausible), it would have gone over 1000 miles by now.

Well, another benefit of autonomous cars is that if you did need to park them, they could do so in extremely tight spaces, because they would have already dropped off their passengers curb-side. Also, they could box each other in, because if one needed to get out it could kindly ask the other cars to do get out of the…

Zac, I don't mean this as a personal assault, it's more a comment on the world as a whole...

Maybe... I've been in some very convincing simulators.

Internet detective to the rescue!

I went on a rocket launch simulator. It doesn't compare to an actual blast off, but that experience has me convinced that they could pretty convincingly simulate a car ride.

"And because someone draws that line much sooner than you does not mean that they place no value on the same thing." That's a fair point. We both assumed too much about each other's opinions.

Because saying that you value something does not mean you pursue it at all costs. There are reasonable balances. For example, when smog in your city reaches critical levels, banning some portion of vehicular traffic for one day.

Yeah, who values stuff like cleaner air?

Yes.. they are indeed. As are the same worn out jokes about every other nationality.