Nice video and all, but I don't really see it as an improvement, design wise. Just following a trend does not a good UI make. The dreaded skeumorphism in a car system, actually conveys information and potentially speeds up reaction time. CP.

Robot learns knitting, makes electric motor.

All of the CNG vehicles I've seen also have a gas tank.

but fuck the other places, that you're turning radioactive with all the fracking, though. Argument serving agenda?

When that happens, Musk maintains, "We'll take autonomous cars for granted in a short period of time. It's going to be the default thing and it's going to save a lot of lives."

Ford has addressed the problem by providing such a fun second gear on the 3cyl ecoboost that you'll gladly do most of the driving near the redline.

One's a French station wagon, the other's motivated by horses.

That's because on petrols they're not needed, gasoline exhaust gasses don't contain fine particulate (the main cancer causing culprit in diesel exhaust) that the diesels have filtres for. http://www.air-quality.org.uk/26.php

ok, now I get your unconventional analogy, but cancer causing? like diesel? I always thought gasoline, being more refined, is a cleaner burning fuel. Diesel OTOH leaves behind more heavy and fine elements that are not good for humans (hence the upcoming ban in Paris, because of large increase in all kinds of…

It has also brought the dieselisation of petrol engines (aka downsizing) which has made them cancerigenous.

actual, real buttons - now that's luxury.

So he can install more rockets on it when the plebs rise up.

the car in French is a feminine word (la voiture), so - La Ford

Lovely aircraft, but that launch video, wow - much cheese, maybe because French.

The condition of the car is that not surprising. The entire ad reads: yada-yada-yada- chrome wheels -yada-yada-yada chrome wheels yada-yada-yada. At that price - NP all day.

Came to say this, thank You Sir.

Looks like the door would still open without problems.

Whoo-hoo, digital displays in cars, so modern, so high-tech. The real reason behind it might be that the point-in-time has arrived where an LCD screen is actually cheaper, than all the buttons, and needles, and small mechanisms. In the end, its a cost saving measure, easier and cheaper assembly for the car maker.

Officially, the reason for these laws is to keep vehicles that don't meet America's strict safety and smog-control laws out of the U.S, and to prevent polluting and unsafe vehicles from endangering lives. Customs officials said in an email that they also fear the importation of stolen goods into the U.S., something…

Apparently there's a slight problem with that. The Parisian metro is almost at the end of its capacity during rush-hour in some places. OTOH public transportation in paris is quite good.