You’re the minority, though. It’s simply not fun enough unless you’re autocrossing or on the track. I regularly autocross myself, but my car is also a hoot to drive on the street too. Every stock FR-S/BRZ I’ve driven is meh on the street. A friend’s lightly boosted one was fantastic. The car has a great driving…

Modern class 8 aero tractors get better fuel economy than anything on the road previously. 7.5-8 mpg is typical if spec’d correctly. It used to be 5-6 mpg, even 10-15 (or more) years ago.

Navistar has not manufactured any gliders for as far back as reports that I’m able to find can show.
Navistar is not the same company it was on 2010-2012 when a disastrous and foolhardy CEO almost bankrupt it because of its engine/emissions decisions.

I am still SHOCKED that Toyota would put a BMW engine in their product. Toyota engines are known for exceptional reliability, if a little bit on the dull/laggard side of technology. BMW is the exact opposite. 

We deserve to F’ing lose for shit like this. This crap (in mindset) got us Trump.

Pot, meet Kettle. You don’t know auto manufacturing from making a PB&J sandwich.

Honestly if you can’t see it, you need to step away from the rose tinted glasses. I respect the heck out of Elon as an innovator (probably the greatest in the last generation), but he’s not the kind of guy to be running a business that mass produces anything.

How so? He singlehandedly caused the production issues Tesla is facing because he honestly believes he is better and smarter than everyone else. He believed he could reinvent mass production all while introducing a car that the entire company is riding on for success. I am not knocking the cars at this point, just…

Bye, Felicia. Sorry you can’t handle the legit criticism (they could go way worse and there is fodder for it). 

I work for one of the large truck makers. We haven’t made any gliders for as far back as the search tool lets me look. I hate this guy just as much as the rest, but this is overblown. Only Peterbilt and Western Star will be interested in this. The newer trucks are so, so much more efficient, without taking emissions…

I want Tesla to succeed but Musk to fail. Those who are grounded in reality/understand what it takes to make cars will get this statement. 

The only sentence in the study referencing distraction:

There is literally ONE sentence about distraction, ONE:
“Some might have been distracted, just as vehicle drivers could have been, by texting or talking on cellphones, although data is lacking to quantify distraction.”

Are you trying to claim that driver and pedestrian distraction are not a hugely significant, if not primary reason for increased pedestrian deaths in the last 10 years? I want data as much as the next guy but honestly, c’mon. You know it. 

Distracted driving & distracted pedestrians ARE a cause of pedestrian fatalities. It’s well known that there’s more of those than there were 10+ years ago. The exact amount caused by distraction? Unknown, but that’s not the point. Freep is attributing a significant portion of the increase in overall fatalities to SUVs.…

While I don’t disagree with NHTSA that SUVs are more likely to cause pedestrian fatalities, they are not making the claim that more SUVs is the cause of more deaths. The journalists here are. Simply looking at the number of deaths without controlling for SIGNIFICANT other factors (distraction of drivers and…

In this case, it is a fact that the overall level of distraction via devices is substantially higher than it was in 2009, both by operators of cars/SUVs and of pedestrians. The exact amount I don’t know, but omitting that information and establishing causation from SUVs is dishonest or ignorant, or both.

And people are easily mislead by it all the time. Not a hard concept to understand, but requires both a reasonable understanding of statistics and science. 

Yay someone that gets that correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causation.