For me, the entire point of autonomous vehicles is the appliance-ification of cars. The idea that you no longer need to own a car, you simply summon one when you need to go somewhere. Once you take ownership out of the equation, none of the enthusiast-oriented stuff matters anymore.

I hope Cixin Liu was unnecessarily pessimistic! At any rate, we’re safe even if future generations get “dark forested.”

“Act is not a law”

Bad analogy to schools and property taxes. I don’t have kids and pay for schools through property taxes, too, but I don’t pay more than the family with kids.

What if, like me, you drive 1/3 that distance in a year? Is that still reasonable?

As an EV owner I don’t think I should get a free ride, but I strongly object to flat-rate charges. We don’t drive much, so our cost per distance driven would be way, way higher than if we drove a gas car. Usage-based charges or GTFO.

Perhaps Hyundai is wising up and re-routing cars to Canada where our EV incentives don’t leave Korean-made cars out.

That interior is... vivid.

I hope the justice system fucks these assholes hard. They need to be made examples of.

Nah, if/when Elon tries to one-up Bezos it’ll be a support ship with a landing pad to recover SpaceX rockets.

I suppose it’s the least offensive thing your Mustang will do at a Cars and Coffee event.

Or a pedal, even!

Are you in the habit of driving into the backside of cars without their headlights on at night? Yeah, most other drivers aren’t either. They are harder to see without taillights on, but they aren’t invisible.

Except they aren’t totally invisible, or you wouldn’t know they were there to honk and wave at. It bugs me, too, how easy it is for drivers to not turn on their full lights at night, but I’ve never once been remotely close to rear-ending one. No doubt they are harder to see, especially in fog or rain, but as long as…

Most countries that use SI units use litres per 100km to measure fuel efficiency. This isn’t something CarNerd4Life pulled out of his ass.

Maybe so. But are you saying you’ve never, ever done anything out of habit while forgetting what you were intending to do? Like take the turn to go in the direction of work when you’re actually going somewhere else?

Absolutely not arguing against your consequences, but I could imagine that someone who straps one on every day could easily forget that they can’t do that the day they go to the airport.

Dockless sharing is a great idea, except for the fact there’s a fixed percentage of people who are just plain shitty.

I suspect this will turn out to be an error in the press release. Usually with EVs the ability to make power from the same motor scales up with battery capacity, as bigger batteries can supply more current. I bet it’s the long range that has the higher power rating.

The premise that narrower driving lanes will slow down cars is butting up against drivers’ refusal to slow down, ever, for anything.