He’s missed a big one: perfect traction control. With an electric motor you can modulate torque to 1% or better, 20,000 times per second. Individually to each wheel, if you have dual or quad motors.

There was an article in Fast Company a few months ago, saying that that’s already happening in the Silicon Valley area, because people have figured out you can carve up Google’s self driving cars with impunity.

The Euro Escort of that vintage was also a heap of junk.

Pretty much.

In fairness, they started with 1 person at 40mph, then moved up to 2 at 80, 4 at 100, etc. it took a while to get to hundreds at 600.

#COTD

Its primary spoken language is screaming.

Plus McLaren, Williams, Red Bull, Force India, Renault, Marussia (RIP) and Caterham F1 (RIP).

Still does, if you’re talking about race cars. A solid majority of the world’s F1 and WRC cars come from within 100 miles of Milton Keynes

What is this ”so far out of its element” shit?

Obviously Detroit is doing God’s work: it’s just once more sign that humans shouldn’t be in Oz :-).

Man, that’s going to piss off Rich Kristen.

God’s been trying to tell humans for 50,000 years that he doesn’t want us in Australia. Fires, floods, snakes, spiders, sharks, even toxic fricking JELLYFISH! And Aussies just won’t listen.

DTM are (were?) much more relaxed about these things. Here’s Dieter Quester finishing 3rd in 1990 on his roof: the result stood.

As always when it comes to supercars, Lambo got this

One of my greatest childhood memories is standing with my dad in the dawn mist, in a forest in 1970s backblocks New Zealand, listening to the first car of the day - an Escort, inevitably - come over the hill a few miles away and start brapping its way down the valley towards us. Still raises the hairs on the back of…

The history of technology is an arms race between engineers trying to make things more foolproof and the rest of the world inventing better fools.

“learn to control a car at lower speeds”.

My first: a 1951 Citroen Traction Avant. Slow, impractical, rusty, and exactly as reliable as you’d expect a 35 year old French car to be: I had to rebuild the engine twice in the 15000 miles I drove it.

So what you’re saying is that this is the new Prius, taxi to the world?