This article feels like a quota-maker for the day . . . 

It’s worth it for the single-player campaign alone IMO. Extremely well composed. 

If we’re throwing Time Traveler’s Wife into the mix, can I also offer up About Time. Similar premise, and even stars Rachel McAdams in the leading female role. It’s romantic, a little corny, and kind of funny too. 

Why mixed feelings? Isn’t it better to say it’s wrong on both counts, and work towards accountability on both ends, rather than end up in a race to the bottom? It shouldn’t be legal period, nor should we consider legalizing it simply because government officials can do it and get away with it. 

Holy shit manwhoyellsatclouds don’t contribute then. We really going to fucking complain about society wanting to be generous and help each other out? 

What they probably meant is that they used that much in materials, meaning it would cost them up to 100 mil gold to replace everything they raided from their vaults to beat this boss. Just my guess.

Given the vast wealth Seinfeld has, and his reverence for cars, it’s hard to imagine he’s intentionally try and screw anyone on a car deal for a measly 1.5 million. His estimated net worth is just shy of 1 billion.

I’ve never driven an ATS, but my family really likes their Model 3 a lot. I also have a CTS-V (2nd gen), but pretty sure that’s a different platform than the new ATS. 

Well technically no one ordered a specific model on day 1. You just had a reservation for Model 3. Those who chose to wait for the standard (base) model at $36k are still waiting for that to release. The cost isn’t low enough yet to make it profitable from what I gather, but it’s getting closer.

If you’re ordering the top-end Model 3 it can be a few days to a few weeks. I believe the next step down (non performance AWD) is a few weeks, and the long-range 2wd is like 4-5 weeks. That was the last time I checked anyways, which was in December. Mid-range I’m not sure about, and standard model is still TBD.

In any modern car, touch screen or not, there is likely one computer all those analogue controllers are talking to. That the presentation to the user is different doesn’t mean there isn’t still a single point of failure there. 

Right. Also might be simpler to have either a higher-spinning electric motor, and/or a more powerful one and change final gear ratios for those post 155mph blasts.

Why is complexity not a valid reason? You’re adding in an entirely new major component that is unnecessary for the car to function. You can already do 155mph. Other reasons not to include a transmission would be 1. Weight, 2. Cost.

How does it only help them and not hurt? It adds weight, complexity, cost. If multi-gear transmissions were the way to go in providing more efficiency, better cost, better weight, they would have done so. Transmissions are there for torque multiplication primarily, and electric motors have GOBS of torque.

If you’re going to make comparisons about bad implementations then you should also acknowledge the many tactile implementations that are also horrendous. I think his point is that when done right they can be intuitive, user friendly, and offer some benefits over the analogue interfaces. When done wrong, they can be…

Totally agree. But knowing that humans have faults, and will continue to have faults, can we not at least celebrate that we have some vehicles now that have the ability to, on a limited basis, step in when people do fuck up. You’re not going to cure stupidity, but you can put in safety nets to protect others when it…

What from my post makes you think my solution is to just “hope they don’t?” All of the things you mentioned are what people SHOULD do. I don’t disagree with that in the least. But if you’re proposing that we shouldn’t provide such safety features as assisted driving (aka Autopilot as Tesla calls it) that’s incredibly…

How are you so certain that in a medical event, or even a sleep event, his hands wouldn’t be on the wheel? You’re making an assumption to justify another assumption here. Never fallen asleep and woken up while still clutching a book, your glasses, a glass of water? Ever witnessed how a spectrum of people react during…

No there isn’t. So long as your hands are on the wheel you can keep going. The assumption is that your hands would come off the wheel while asleep, which doesn’t always happen. I know I’ve woken up many time still clutching a book. 

People fall asleep at the wheel ALL THE TIME. It’s incredibly dangerous, it shouldn’t happen, but it does. The hope that they drift to the right, hit a guard rail, wake up, and decide not to drive is just that, a hope. At least with this system it would be a lot less likely that he’d do what the other 50% does, veer…