Probably won’t have much of a career as a cop either. His so-called “brothers and sisters” in blue will either make his job such an intolerable hell that he’ll quit, or he’ll end up dead “in the line of duty.”

It wouldn’t make me miserable. I’d just be too busy laughing at how ugly it is.

Having pathetic storage space is normal for EVs though, unless they have frunks. Gotta cram those batteries in somehow; only so much space under the floor.

And I bet whatever GTA makes to mimic this will actually look better...

But they’ll just move elsewhere. At least now we know where they are...

Didn’t work for Philando Castile.

And over 50 years later, nothing has changed except the type of locomotive breaking down in the middle of the trip...

“CiVIl wAr ErA BrAKeS!!!”

The content on Vine was of much better quality. The “comedians” were actually - y’know - FUNNY instead of cringy like now. Sure, there was “doing it for the Vine,” but it seemed like truly stupid things didn’t blow up and go super viral like they do on TikTok. 

It reminds me of all the fussing and preparation required to “cold start” a steam locomotive, even though they couldn’t be from more different ends of the technological spectrum.

Very little on a typical EV is designed to actually be fixed anyway - just throw away the faulty component and bolt on a new one. Aside from handling high-voltage components, what would an EV mechanic need to know that a regular mechanic doesn’t already know?

And the electric cars will weigh as much as the gas trucks they’re replacing. I guess slightly better for pedestrian safety standards since they aren’t as tall, but when they all have 1000+ hp to go with their 3-ton minimum weights, that kinda negates that.

That’s all Mopars have been good for for a long time now anyway.

Which is a shame, because the car looks great. If I HAVE to get an EV, I want it to have an exterior as great as this. No stupid Fart-tronic “exhaust” please (even if I can turn it off). I’ll get a car with a real engine if I want that soundtrack.

I’d get rid of auto-dimming mirrors. The whole point of having a “night” setting is to stop being blinded by high-beams, but the mirrors dim even when confronted with a single headlight from a vehicle half a mile behind. They get so dark that headlights just become barely-visible disembodied orbs of light, and it…

Tbh this story wouldn’t be out of place within the US. In fact I remember reading Amtrak had to redo an order of new dining cars because they had terrible ergonomics and not enough storage (both due to not consulting the people who’d actually be staffing these cars).

If it’s an AWD one, you can get marginally better range by having it shut down one of the motors. Otherwise, all it doesn’t do anything you can’t just do by yourself to increase range (be more gentle on the accelerator, don’t run HVAC, drive at lower speeds, etc.).

Simple, if it’s a government-mandated one, don’t allow it to be rolled back. Besides, I’d hope a software update to fix a recall issue would be subjected to higher standards than optional ones. Then again, “quality standards” and “software” are mutually exclusive concepts...

Your experience creeping through in intersection sounds like my experience driving a Zipcar Ford Focus with a Powershi(f)t transmission. I tried to turn left across an intersection and gave it a healthy amount of throttle, and it just creeped through the intersection. At least the Focus eventually remembered “Oh, the…

We’re in trouble if Microsoft is the standard for software usability and implementation...