These flatbed are popular with tow rigs since there’s no bedsides to fight with a gooseneck trailer.

My thought is probably because you end up with an even higher bed floor since it’s above the wheel wells. Making a bad situation worse.

Or you just go full on stakebed.

if you live somewhere dense enough that you have theses issues we should probably be looking at ways to get you to go car free. These places were built without cars in mind.

It’s also going to take a decade or two for the last ICE vehicles to age out of the fleet so you’d have quite a while where you can just get a…

My girlfriend’s R50 mini cooper cabrio’s top doesn’t seal along the front so it whistles like crazy at anything above 25mph. I took it to the Mini specialist and he didn’t want to touch it because he says the tops are so finnicky you might never get it to work right once you start adjusting. 

Pontiac Regeous.

LS sport wagon with a drop gate and a ruggedized interior.

I can’t believe they built the Aztek instead 

Yeah the Dutch have a really good distinction here between transport cyclist, undertaken in street clothes (fietser) and sport cycling (wielrenner). I think a lot of the misunderstanding is that people think eBikes are for cheating at wielrenning, not doing more fietsen.

I’m not saying biking is bad. Just that eBikes get people out of cars, not off of bikes. And more people on two wheels means more advocates for better infrastructure. 

I think this really hinges on the infrastructure where you live.

In Holland an eBike is kind of ridiculous overkill unless you’re going to do some serious mileage.

But if you’re dealing with broken pavement, thin tires become a serious liability for getting to work on time. After the first few flats most will go back…

Basically any ICE conversion intended for on road use.

They weren’t designed with placing the pack under the floor where it belongs and the end result manages to be eye wateringly expensive and disappointingly incapable compared to an off the shelf EV.

If i had to put my TSLA bro hat on I’d say that it’s partially because it makes so much sense.

Their biggest advantage is risk tolerance. EV delivery vans like the eCrafter have been around for a while so it’s not that groundbreaking and the OEMs are going to flood into that space very soon.

land cruiser sales are probably a good test for how buyers would respond.

There’s a small cadre of people still buying those cars new and enjoying very hihg resale values but I’m guessing it’d be a very hard road for the brand.

There’s a reason you see so many more RX and NX’s than Land Cruisers. 

I can’t believe Honda hasn’t done this with the ridgeline already and just stuffed a big battery in that trunk thing

Concept aside, this seems like a horrible patent.

Why is this worthy of granting them monopoly rights? I’ve heard people come up with the same idea 3 times after 4 beers.

honestly at that point they should just do what Toyota does with their hybrid SUVs and put in a FWD trans axle and an electrified rear axle.

There’s efficiency benefits to directly driving the wheels via the motor at highway speeds since you don’t have to convert to electricity and back again. 

yeah I’m a pretty hardcore battery Ev person but for anything i’d plan to tow or go far from civilization in I’d much prefer a PHEV.

Pre 2017 autopilot is just a well tuned mobileye system.

Ive often wondered if some of the ping-ponging by other systems is intentional to keep you from getting over confident. 

yeah. My point also isn’t that AP is perfect. It’s just that the false sense of security has to do with the way the system behaves not the way it’s marketed.

Adding a better driver monitoring system would be welcome but would undermine the idea that robotaxies are just months away (please don’t sell your stock) 

I hate the naming controversy since I think it distract from a much bigger problem.

Automatic updates.

Since the capabilities of the car are always changing it encourages people to push the limits (on public roads!) to see if it still does “that one weird thing”.

This is how the fatal crash in Mountainview happened.

It…

People definitely abuse other systems, you just don’t hear about it as much since people don’t know to look for it.

People sleeping in their cars are typically using some defeat device like (banned) autopilot buddy to cut down on the nags as well so they know what they’re up to

Here’s someone doing infamouse Tesla…

yeah my take on Nikola is that they’re an umbrella to aggregate a lot of the disparate hydrogen projects around the industry that wouldn’t be able to make it on their own without all the headaches of trying to get the giants to cooperate. Sort of like sticking two half asses together to make a whole ass.

It’s…

This does nothing for me but i can’t really blame them in a world where people are buying Tahoes and Expeditions (as well as GLS’s and X7's) because gas is cheap.

May there be a hybrid option soon.