Not everyone can be Superformance, but not everyone has to be the shop-class-flunkie uncle who is simultaneously obsessed with classic cars, mediocre fiberglass workmanship, alternative fuels, and world’s worst sense of proportion. I mean, not even Gulf livery can save this thing.

I’m perfectly willing to judge autonomous systems on a basis of incidents per vehicle mile, but current systems are way, way behind on that metric. I did the math elsewhere (I can’t find it, unfortunately), but at the time of the Uber crash, autonomous vehicles were orders of magnitude less safe when judged by the…

Yeah, I think your point was well made in the first post. I just disagree with it :)

Yeah honestly, your first mistake was trying to make any kind of sense out of a Vin Diesel Insta story :)

Aaron Brown Jalopnik hiring questionnaire:

Pfffffft. Just the Nordschleife? Porsche’s Leipzig circuit has a replica Carricola Karussell, Sunset Bend from Sebring, Corkscrew from Laguna Seca, Monza Parabolica, and Monaco Hairpin, just to name a few. Step it up, Toyota!

Pablo was Paul Walker’s nickname.

This disagreement comes down to where you draw the line. Which is arbitrary, but not in the abstract sense. Most of what we consider rational judgement is actually drawing an arbitrary line in the sand. Going outside involves many risks. Those risks are factual realities, but we accept them because the trade-off is…

We turned the lights off entirely and it was much easier to watch, even on our old edge-lit UN60F8000.

If you’re talking about this statement, it still makes no sense:

It’s not arbitrary at all. COTD’s point is that the driver’s attention must be required, or the attention will be spent elsewhere. The more attention surplus you have, the more likely it is that drivers will become deeply invested in other tasks.

I’m with you on the hatred of plows, but the Golf R is more like FWD than AWD. Not to mention, the vast majority of AWD platforms drive (terminal understeer) just like FWD. So the decision between GTI and Golf R is more difficult than you’d think. You really can feel the extra weight.

Bruh, this doesn’t make any sense. It’s not Twitter seeking to limit his speech, it’s the SEC.

In N. Korea, the “training requirements” are: you’ll run in step, or we’ll execute every member of your family until you get it right.

Ghosn is already in prison. No one needs to show up with an opinion, because there is no perceived injustice. What generates outrage is when there is a perceived impunity. That’s why the hoard was so excited when the SEC slapped Musk with a fine. I mean, how much of a lunatic do you have to be for people to side with…

Personally, the hate directed toward Musk makes perfect sense to me. He has all the worst characteristics of a hatable CEO. He makes wild claims, twists his own words to ensure that he is always correct, and engages in lunatic conspiratorial rationalization. Unfortunately, this bleeds over to Tesla, which I think is…

Yeah, I think you’re onto something. I’m betting the conversation went something like this:

That is amazing. Unfortunately, it would never work in America because... Well, there’s no nice way to put this. I’m convinced that most of America would cut a line of starving kindergarteners in the soup line if they thought they could get away with it.

You’re advocating for lidar out of fear of the unknown.