And then you change the amount of fuel again. Or make it diesel instead of gasoline.

Agreed. I don’t know why they insist on developing Level 5 autonomy instead of perfecting simpler solutions.  That would let you collect the data that you need to push into the harder stuff.

My wife was tired of driving a ‘big ole minivan’ around with just her in it most of the time. So she replaced it with a Pathfinder.

I have a Mazda 3 with the Traffic Sign Recognition. It’s fun to have, but I wouldn’t want it controlling the maximum speed my vehicle could travel.

When the 3 kids were young and we had a minivan, I removed one of the middle bucket seats. We could get everyone in a latched with out having to climb over thing. There was still space for all the crap we needed to carry.

After they impaled the driver due to the blunt ends on the guide rails.

Honestly, if I was going to one of these, the smartest thing to do would be park a street or two away.

First rule of business is that charge what people are willing to pay, not what it costs.

I think the timelines diverged when the Large Hadron Collider was turned on for the first time.

Unreal that you remembered the title and author.  I was remembering the book, but it was 40 years ago when I read it.  No way I could remember that bit of trivia.

And that is what happened with gas cars.  The people who produced what the cars needed (gasoline) made way more than the car manufacturers did.  It will be the same here.

I was just at TRB and one of the sessions was on non-standard messages and their impact on driver behaviour. Helped a little, not a lot.

Back in the mid 80's, I borrowed a co-workers Chrysler New Yorker with the 400 cid, 4 barrel carb. It had one of those long rectangular spedometers.

Just wondering how many people with deposits on Kia’s are calling their dealer and cancelling this morning in Canada.

Exactly.  The whole causation/correlation thing.

If they priced EVs as regular vehicles, instead of luxury vehicles, there wouldn’t be an issue.

Typically, the choice is to use an energy attenuating end-barrier: https://images.app.goo.gl/yuT6jhUAZwv3xj538

Part of the issue is that the concrete barrier wall had an angled end-section instead of an energy attenuating end-section.

And you will still need to deal with a Hyundai dealer at some point.

My Mazda 3 has Traffic Sign Recognition on it. It’s correct about 50% of the time. The rest of the time, it either takes the wrong speed from a database, refuses to recognize the speedlimit sign that I can clearly see, or grabs a highway number or off ramp speed and displays it.