By far the most frustrating thing about vehicle safety is that the absolute, no question, best way in any metric to increase vehicle safety by the largest amount is an overhaul to the licensing system, including tiered licensing, with federal standards. Don’t let people drive SUVs without a commercial vehicle license.…

I’m not sure how you expect materials cost to approach zero with higher volume. That is not how scarcity works. Those things are produced by the tens of millions by myriad companies around the world, and are already very close to their fixed minimum cost.

Emissions no, safety yes. Emissions is pretty much just an engineering cost that isn’t much more than any other engine/model development, and gets amortized pretty easily.

Kind of ironic that the only cars I’d actually want to buy new anymore are the ones with the fewest features and cost five million dollars.

Only reason I’m on facebook anymore is to promote my photography. I hesitate to join a bunch of groups because it makes your feed and notifications unmanageable, and facebook, to me, historically has been about keeping up with friends rather than inviting a bunch of random assholes to dump nonsense on your screen. Of…

Dammit, I was hoping this would mean the car would be illegal in Germany until they fixed the dumb-ass design. Touchscreens really need to cost somebody something so that they go away.

Ever since I got that last lens to expand my focal length range to 11-400, I’ve felt like I have GAS licked.

I see! I suppose you’ve also got winches to solve those problems.

Yeah I mean, I’m not a drivetrain engineer or anything, but I thought mating a transmission to an engine was a solved problem?

I love stick shift in motorsports stuff, and I have no experience offroading, but it seems like a proper clutch would just be a dang pain in the ass for any kind of rock-crawling or real offroad stuff.

How much space in the bay can cruise control possibly take up? I thought cruise control was pretty much just ECU code and maybe a small motor on the throttle?

If you park your car in your garage, this isn’t a problem.

It’s only available in Thailand, for now, but Autoblog reports it’s destined for the U.S. market at some point as well.

Newey is a bit more than four times a champion...

This is a stellar take.

Yeah I think it’s mostly in rural areas I’ve seen it.

I’ve seen USPS mail carriers driving old Taurus Wagons and the like. Is that treated as an exemption per worker, or what?

I think this is another case where

I don’t think people really appreaciate how *easy* it is to take a year off from things these days. Like, you’ve got all kinds of modern technology converging to enable a person to not leave the house for a month at a time while still fulfilling your basic needs and providing endless entertainment, and people…

The rev limiter cuts off the fuel to stop your engine exploding, so it won’t be accurate science. You *could* ride the brakes to keep your speed down, although you might just end up doing burnouts that way.