It’s kinda simple really, charging isn’t happening fast enough, so you’ll have to have a lot more.

Either you increase the supply of the outlets, make them charge faster, or both.

Or go for some kind of electric tech that isn’t so dependent on the cord....

It kinda becomes a game of cat and mouse. Start installing a trailer hitch, put the equipment in the trailer. Computer vision is probably not smart enough to detect it, and even if it is, put a cover on it.

Whenever you have a test that a manufacturer needs to look good in it, someone had devised some way to cheat at it.

Cars, phones, graphics cards, you name it, you’ve got it.

VW merely had gone too far with the cheat.

We call the Hi-Ace “loaf of bread car”. Because it just resembles a loaf of white bread.

These vans are iconic, and they’ve also got some interesting reputation if you drive regularly....

It’s far too easy to armchair quarterback, and humans place in those situation probably reacted as best as they could via instinct. The more high level thought usually don’t come into play in split-second decisions.

I’ve had it once where I tried to dodge a piece of wood on a highway speed, but it just wasn’t possible.…

It depends on whether VW has friends on high places - They could shift the focus on the fact that EPA asks manufacturer to self-regulate, insinuate that other manufacturer cheats, start a witchhunt and at least divert attention.

People have short memories - if your typical American has long since forgot about Snowden…

The real test is to put the tail pipe equipment in the trunk, and have it record information as it moves.

Just strip them of their win. They’ll learn to behave soon enough.

It has far less to do with wires and circuit boards, and far more to do with the fact that it’s a brown skinned guy named Ahmed holding something with wires coming out of it, because that’s the image of what a lot of the public have for a suicide bomber in the Middle East.

Get a white kid with wealthy parents bringing…

Well, the Jeep hack happened because they hooked up the CAN bus to the infotainment system to display stats about the car. CAN bus didn’t really have any security or authentication (because it’s a wired system and you’ll need to get physical access). The only problem is that the infortainment system’s got internet…

Uconnect huh, I hope they at least received the update so that they don’t get hacked.

Back end looks interesting. I’m guessing they’re going for low drag?

I second that. Get a 4-wheel drive subaru beater.

I don’t exactly lump Top Gear into car shows. It is very much a show about 3 guys screwing around with cars.

Which is just fine.

And I find it hilarious when people complain about Clarkson, and his antics. Whether he’s a terrible human being is not particularly relevant - he is *great* at delivering a message in 30…

Agreed.

This is like asking which plastic surgery addled celebrity looks the best?

In time, the novelty wears off, and to quote philosopher Clarksonius, 4th century BC, it would be as fake as a hooker’s smile.

As a born-in-HK but culturally Canadian guy, the transit system is probably one of the few things that I like about Hong Kong.

Cheap out on the go-juice, or creature comfort. I mean, yeah, sure it sucks that it doesn’t have the power, but hey, the customer is buying a cheap bike.

Manufacturers should not cheap out on the braking or the steering. Once your customer dies, there’s not a lot of repeat business.

Was it Clarkson’s GT? :p

One at a time ;) It’s not an on-off switch. It’s a process.

Land of the free, huh?