You get the GTI because you wanted a GTI and you got the Merc because you can’t let Nancy at work have a nicer badge than you.

The very first time I went off-roading was in Germany in my Dad’s HMMWV (technically it wasn’t my dad’s, it was the U.S. Army’s), and my dad flooded the vehicle’s interior as it sank to the bottom of a swamp.

Maze really should be driving a heavily modified v8 Interceptor, IMO.

Also this:

It’s not a great picture, shot through the windshield while driving, but you can see how startlingly perfect this car is

I get what you were trying to do, but this doesn’t really work here. It’s for occasions where two huge ships (piloted by humans) collide.

add “giant cruise ship hauling ass directly toward me while I gaze over the ocean from a dock” to the list of things I need to be unreasonably afraid of.

I was thinking “Hey, that really looks like Til Schweiger in the driver’s seat”.

As part of that plan, the company petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for a “two-year temporary waiver” on certain features like mirrors, turn signals, and dashboard lights—things that a human would need, but a robot might not.

mistrantlations probably aren’t going anywhere. I wouldn’t want them too.

Some boffins have invented these really brilliant flying machines to ferry people and goods from one place to another. A whole industry has sprung up around them. 

category: motorcycles

I drive her around in it occasionally just to keep the fluids circulating.

cheap K-Cars

or your Volvo 142 that doesn’t have two body panels the same color

Now what the hell do I do with the remaining 24 cans of this stuff?

We need a name for used cars that look clean but are full of secret problems.

a two-week pilot project that will automate trips between distribution hubs in Dallas and Phoenix. ... examining the potential of automated hauling mainly along Interstate 10, a linchpin of freight movement in the United States.

the Easter Bloc’s closest rival

If it doesn’t work you can always hit him with it.