I’m going back to the sloth story

I for one welcome our new snowtrain overlord, forebearer of the great Snowpiercer. All glory to the sacred engine.

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Nah, you just swap ‘em out and ignore the TPMS light for 3/4 months. (That’s what my family does!)

Vibration isolation, haha.

This is really a great visual device for showing something people don’t think about often enough. If you live in an area that gets winter weather, your best bet is always to race against an automotive journalist on a tricycle, because he’ll be out of breath after two laps.

It’s about costs, a cheap chevrolet aveo with no airbag, no infotaiment/nav and no abs goes for around $17K (that’s cash, it’s more like $23K with a credit) here in Ecuador, a 10 year old used one still goes for 10K, so no airbags is an atractive option.

While there is data that supports your view that increased safety increases some people’s willingness to take risks, there is no data that shows lack of safety reduces risks taken.

Well yeah, I remember when everyone drove an MT car with no passive safety features and there were fewer road fatalities...

While I agree with you on aircraft (because duh planes tend to fly beyond regional boundaries) I think applying the same concept to cars would be economically devastating and destructive to innovation in developing regions.

The only problem is that we’ll run into the classic “who runs it?”. Then all of these regulators will be certain that they have the biggest dick and should be running the show. Shortly thereafter they’ll come to the conclusion that we are just too far apart with what we want from safety and it’s far better off with…

There’s a difference between made up, and approximated. Using this logic works 60% of the time, every time.

The company probably should have honored the guy’s original deal and spec’d him a car like he wanted and eaten the cost. They made the mistake, took the man’s deposit, and promised him a particular car. Making right on this would have cost, what, $20,000 or so?

The red one won’t win a beauty pageant, but it cleans up ok.

But I can get a used Ford Aerostar for $300

I have to slightly disagree (but not totally as your points are spot on)....when I first started driving most cars didn’t even come in automatic and if they did you were paying usually more than a grand to add it (my 1996 Honda Civic would have cost me $1200 extra to have it in automatic). The auto industry as a whole…

Just calling it a robot car instead of an autonomous vehicle makes it vastly more appealing. Please for the love of God let there be programmable voices so I can make mine sound like that weird guy from Grandma’s Boy.

It’s kind of both because it’s a positive feedback loop. People were buying less manuals and a symptom of that was that they got more expensive which made people buy less manuals which made them more expensive, etc...

Weird until I travelled to Europe and was riding around in BMW’s and VW’s equipped the same way.

Cool, I’m considering getting a used one myself. I’m guessing you’re happy with its overall reliability so far?