Don’t worry, Microsoft’s secretly developing a car that will absolutely dominate this thing is every single way.

From most reports they weren’t actually wasting time, money and resources developing autonomy. Instead, they put some vinyl graphics on an old Dodge and SAID they were developing autonomy in order to loosen some wallets of venture capitalists.

The contract he signed was with their parent company in China.

Studio was full of ass-hats, a few good guys, but mostly ass-hats. One of the leads would only allow the clay modelers to use 3 tools when modeling. No reason given, just he could make those sort of demands.

“Doctor” Lance. Kek. “PhD” from “the Research Institute of Accounting and Finance.” In China. Kek.

They had a couple of concept cars:

Yea I’ve seen them around locally too. They drive like douchebags. Doesn’t help that the local PD doesnt do shit. I once saw a Karma racing some pos Challenger for about 2 miles. It was crazy.

That guy definitely wants to be fucked by a horse, like that guy in the movie Zoo

That was my thought too, didnt Henrik Fisker do all of the design of the car?

Not surprised. Wang Chung (pretty much how Wanxiang is pronounced) are still figuring out how to be a long-term, stable player in batteries (A123 Systems) and EV’s (Karma). They make other auto components as well, but the above products are extraordinarily challenging even for the best companies.

Why were they wasting time, money and resources on developing autonomy? Did they realistically think anything they put out would compete with Waymo, Uber, Tesla or literally any other manufacturer? Maybe if they focused on the fundamentals things would’ve turned out differently...

wow. Any ex-Karma designers out there with horse sketches?

“Rebranded failure fails again”

I finally remember the design bosses name, it was alexander klatt. This guy was really something, I wasn’t to fond of him as when I was still working there he kicked me out of the design studio, apparently engineers weren’t allowed in there. Anyway, long story short, everything that came out under him was really bad,…

GOOD. These assholes are down the street from me, when they were “testing” cars they drove like assholes and would be dicks to anyone glancing at their cars. Running red lights, speeding on residential streets, using turn lanes to go strait, all while in a “pre-production” car clad in camo.  I can’t wait for Chapter…

“... showing me their autonomous vehicle progress might prove tricky, as Srini Gowda, Karma’s VP of Autonomous Driving, left immediately afterwards. Just to keep it exciting, so did the director of Karma’s safety program.”

Meanwhile in the world of ICE vehicles:

TLDR Fisker is an old Scandinavian word for “Shit dog, that f’ing thing ain’t never going to actually exist.” There was a hard to detect undertone of bitterness toward the person who mentioned whatever fictitious object they brought up. Just like I am slightly bitter that Jalopnik continues to mention these no talent…