Most people will say a very common car. A Tesla, pick-up truck, Prius, or any random muscle car. They’re the ones you see most often in an accident or doing something stupid in an internet article, but that’s just because they’re everywhere. Like the Tabasco of stupidity.

The question is how many people do you need living in a 250 mile radius to justify building a new train route and station?

Considering at least one of these people are a victim, it’s a bit understandable that people may feel a sense of vindication with there being a definitive verdict.

Oh... well that sucks. Maybe just replace the ECU and anything else networked to it? I imagine this could reduce the future maintenance as well compared to diagnosing electrical gremlins that pop up with a 15 year old luxury car.

I feel like it’s worth it to tear out all the infotainment stuff and replace it with some Android based aftermarket thing. The car isn’t really rare enough to be a collectible and the I-drive was bad even when it was new.

That’s not sushi, that’s just a mini-Swiss roll.

Major props. It must have felt so satisfying to stop that legal bullshittery.

I actually agree with giving tax credits for used vehicles as it increases the resale value of those EVs/makes it more likely for used car shoppers to consider an EV.

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Definitely the helicopter if it has enough range. I assume this was a publicity stunt that finally gives an excuse to take the police lambo out of the garage but I’m just saying I could see the conditions on the route being fast/clear/safe enough to be able to get a car (with police lights & sirens) to hit 140 mph…

I looked up the route from Padua to Rome on Google Maps and I actually drove almost the exact same route a few years ago when going between Venice and Rome.

The computers are perfect, I’ve never seen one not do what it was told to do. You’ll notice that in real life, programmers actually include A LOT of bugs in their “final” programs which include a million edge cases that they don’t account for or even really stupid, simple logic errors. I think they do this to see if…

This man is a testament to the virtues of mechanical sympathy.

Unlike a normal tire, it looks like you would replace the entire tire/wheel assembly whenever the tread wears out.

Went on a test drive in one and the acceleration, especially when entering a highway/overtaking, was basically nonexistent in EV mode. I don’t know if there was an ECO setting that made it rely as much as possible on the electric motor but it was just not good enough for regular highway driving in that state.

According to the BLS inflation calculator, there has been only about 18% inflation since 2010 so you could say that people are spending about 50% more on used cars and only about 10% more on new cars. Assuming the original study isn’t controlling for inflation.

Even today, I feel most new car buyers don’t replace their cars because it broke down or no longer receives software support. It’s because they want something new. When EVs become the majority, I assume battery degradation or faster “quick charge” standards might be a small incentive but I think people will always…

Two things:

The article also mentions that the bigger rear brakes are for the Z51 package with the electronic limited slip so that likely means that the traction control applies the brake to whatever wheel is losing traction.