Agreed. In times past Audi and BMW have offered high performance wagons that found ready acceptance. Perhaps a VW R-Wagon would introduce more competition than Audi is willing to accept?  The fact is that space inefficient SUV’s are not substitutes for wagons. 

How many bad Tylenol’s does it take to change the behavior of millions? How many smoking scooters does it take to change the behavior of Californians? Sabotage would appear to be far more efficient than destruction.   

Destroying scooters doesn’t impede potential users other than denying the use of a scooter. If however they something to make the lithium battery start smoking to the extent that the scooters were seen as unsafe things would be far different. It didn’t take too many bad Tylenol’s to change the behavior of millions  

First question: how many cargos are dangerous or high value? Bet they will have humans in the cab. Second question: will human drivers be automatically targeted because autonomous driven cargos are carrying safe and cheap cargos?  Being safe and cheap does that  mean some junior high miscreants armed with shopping…

Thanks to many of the commentators, it has saved me a bunch of angry one fingered typing.

Autonomous driving driving technology now is similar to the early days of ballistic vests which were almost bulletproof. If you depend on them you die.

Owning anything German beyond the factory warranty is suicidal unless you can do normal maintenance including shocks, bushings and brakes. German automatic transmissions are a wild card. They are often difficult if not impossible for independents to repair and the cost of a factory rebuild far too quickly can be…

If someone is leasing a car they are rarely in a position to dispute what the projected value would be. I fully expect my wife’s 2011 6M Cayenne will attract a premium but that is with me selling it privately. Most folk who are getting a new car have little appetite to debate trade in values especially with a Used Car…

Why does BMW screw buyers by offering manual transmissions “at no extra charge” when in times before automatics were several thousand dollars more?  Porsche offers Tiptronic transmissions at a hefty extra charge as they should. On leased cars manuals are immediately dinged as they project that manual will be worth…

I’ve got the feeling that even when Honda’s Magicseat patent expires (soon) Toyota would be loath to use it. How else can you put a 55” TV (in the box) in the back seat? Bystanders at Costco thought I was a magician.

Go find my ‘85 CRX Si my ex sold with black and white Recaro B/W Logos, lumbar support, 15” BBS, 001R Yoko’s, adjustable Tokico shocks and Mugen exhaust.

There is another reason: corruption. The big IT consultancies gain favor by many ways from bribes to engaging associates of the customer for what are essentially no show jobs. IT projects are demanding by any case but when the client sponsor can’t be fired they are doomed. The big firms first engage partners at…

Simca 1204’s without a/c had the spare in the engine compartment. I bought a Pinto instead, sniff.

Where is the bookmark validater? If there was an app that would validate the good ones and eliminate the rest I’d be far ahead. Why doesn’t Google keep the date saved for bookmarks? I bet most bookmarks older than 10 years have little value. Many of the bookmark managers lose their way with big collections and…

Britain was and still is serious about eliminating the homeless to the extent there is a bed and a meal for every homeless head and mouth. They soon found out that many of the homeless would rather defecate outside, imbibe outside of cocktail hours and scream at will at their demons rather than obey the simplest…

Amazon is knowingly playing the fool. It is common knowledge that the only way to insure that laws and contract requirements are followed is to have your own inspectors on site 24/7. Amazon also knows that if it had such inspection Foxconn would not agree to such generous terms. They prefer to maintain plausible…

If taxed vehicles on their weight and horsepower much of this discussion would be rendered moot. As it is diving large truck can deliver tax credits. The first comment would be vehemently opposed by the big 3. Who do you think helped pass the following comment? Ignorant proposals by those who fail study the history…

If all it is going is to be a stationary display (hardware not image) there is no reason it couldn’t be tethered. Being tethered would also make it easier to keep it on station, you could easily send live video, it could be far larger (Blade Runner big) and why not use some helium lift? With greater power it could…

In Europe they think nothing of having exposed nipples on billboards. If Google Maps catches a billboard are they going to pixelate images literaly in the public domain? Are Islamic countries going to get their own version of civility?

I expect that anything that can be drastically improved with a software revision can be drastically diminished with a newly discovered software bug or possibly a new update might undermine the improvements this update provided. There is a good reason why NASA doesn’t put lives at risk until the hardware and software…