As an Oregonian it really doesn’t bother me too much that we have this. We never have to get out in the rain and cold to pump gas and as stated it provides a few more part time jobs for college kids or retirees looking to make some money on the side.

Except EVs are already here and selling in large numbers, and carmakers have defined, executable plans regarding their production. By the end of the decade, most new car sales in the US, Europe, and China will be electric. You couldn’t say the same thing about Level 4 self-driving in 2015, it didn’t exist at all and…

No one is doubting that our future holds some form of autonomous cars beyond what we have now. Full fledged level 5 autonomy though? That might not happen in our lifetime unless there’s a major breakthrough in anonymous tech. Seeing how far we’ve come in the last 50 years gives me hope, but not much.

No one’s doubting it’s the future, just like EVs. But saying 5 years ago that self-driving will be here in 3 years, and it’s now 5 years later, and it will be another 10-15 years before it’s becoming widely available, that’s just a SMALL miss that’s worthy of pointing out, no? Being too early is just as bad, or even…

This is the best take. It’s why so many trucks in Colorado have toppers (including mine). Honestly a large SUV would have been better for me, but cost was an issue. 

Outdoorsy Boulder type (I can smell the patchouli from my house!), checking in with a No Dice vote. This really is a Baja successor, in the sense that it answers the utterly confounding question of: how do you make a less useful Subaru Outback?

Unpopular take: G-wagons are terrible, and the people who own them are worse.

I was definitely okay with the outside, but that interior is SEMA 1999 bad. 

I don’t hate this. There’s a recently redone bridge and entrance/exit ramps in my area that would have benefitted from this. right now, it’s usually a mess of cars blocking intersections.

How about NJ in general? Jughandles instead of left hand turns, left side-exits (NJ Parkway has a few of these), no U-Turns allowed in at least %90 of the state, oh and there’s a cop on every corner running radar with speed limits that change multiple times within a few miles on a road, just to generate revenue

How about 6 roundabouts all joined together.

Laying track and installing signals and power is a minor cost compared to actual tunneling. Most of the cost and delay in Portland’s West Side MAX was the tunnel through Vista Ridge since the rest is either surface or shallow cut and cover. The main thing is that a rail vehicle can be run driverless right now and the…

Forget Space Mountain, Disney Land has another people mover that can be used.

Pretty sure they are illegal for road use but it’s not an unreasonable expectation to have installed equipment that you don’t use all the time. Brights for example shouldn’t be used all the time either but we shouldn’t ban them.

They equipped a “mean mud machine” with highway tires?

In my area, people don’t seem to be buying many hotcakes at all. 

Yes, we should have more rail lines. That we no longer do is BECAUSE the railroads have a hard time competing with trucks. Trucks get the roads effectively for free. Sure, they pay gas tax, but that pales into insignificance to a railroad having to build and maintain their tracks, pay TAXES on the tracks, and then pay…

The thing is though - he might. If you cut a human driven truck off, he might just hit you. If you get him to stop and he feels threatened, he might very well decide to run over your ass to get away. 80klbs of semi is a hell of a weapon. A robot truck will do no such thing. It will just stop and bleat for help. Which…

I don’t see how creative people won’t be able to figure out how to hijack loads by just blocking the autonomous trucks in, overriding their little computer brains, spoofing their GPS, or some other tricky trick.

I don’t have the words for how ridiculous this is. WTF are those moronic clowns doing that they’re double-charging people for AN ENTIRE CAR?!? This kind of shit is totally unacceptable, especially for what’s supposed to be a professional car company.