Don’t underestimate the nouveau riche rednecks. Those guys don’t mind getting dirty, and buy very expensive toys.

If you go offroad, in your “classic” jeep, at some point, you’ll need to lean out and get a good view of where you are placing your tire.

While a good power inverter is critical to a EV, and designing a good power inverter is no simple task, it’s a technology that, if not exactly mature, than at least very widespread. For this reason, I have serious trouble believing their claims that their model represents some kind of incredible improvement over what…

When doing so is convenient. There is nothing stopping a truck from picking up a cargo and delivering it directly to its destination.

Why would HL be a good fit for short distances? It’s speed gives it no advantage there.

Why would you need 800mph speeds to deliever cargo? 70mph (or slower) works just fine for majority of cargo. Is the hyperloop really going to be more fuel efficient at high speeds than trucks are at normal speeds?

I don’t doubt that warning lights will come on, but the relearning part is critical. Otherwise, getting to a repair shop can be rather difficult.

Which makes me wonder, how do autonomous cars handle damage?

When you are rich enough to afford this car, you can pay other people to get hit in the head for you.

The argument was that france is very different from the continental united states, and therefor the viability of high speed rail in France may not be indicative of the viability of that same solution here.

You have at least 2 people using texas examples in replies, and you may be confusing which is which.

Are you really saying that both overall system scale and population density are now irrelevant to transportation infrastructure discussions?

Well, one is populated by the french and the other is populated by texans. How that makes you feel is a great indicator of your political leanings.

There is also not insagnificant problem of wear and tear to deal with. Modern cars sit unused 95% of the time, and designed to last about 10 years. An automated car, with existing level of resistance to wear and tear, if near fully utilized would need to be scrapped in a couple of years. Building a car that can stand…

France is a tad smaller in area then Texas. There is a different level of scale here.

I wonder what they mean by “design” in this case. 800hrs is 2 full time weeks for a team of 10 people. Which on the one hand is more than enough time to produce renderings of what it looks like, but on the other nowhere near enough to make it production ready. Is it enough time to sort out all the packaging/component…

That request will soon be as easy to accomodate as trying to find a car with a manual transmission, if that isn’t the case already.

I’m sure there will be plenty of people who wont buy another VW after DG. They might be “wrong”, but VW is still not getting their money.

“What to do if you find yourself with a soon to explode Chrysler with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn’t been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won’t be…

Perhaps you should be a tad clearer as to what you were talking about. Maybe you can draw me a picture.