If I had $100 in cryptocurrency, I would let it ride. I mean why not at this point?

5th Gear: A simple explanation for why a company would move its headquarters, where the highest paid employees work, to Texas would be income tax rates.  As long as the executives are given generous moving allowances, why wouldn’t they want to move?

In the event of an airbag deployment, many vehicles will shut off the fuel and turn the flashers on, unlock the doors and some even call 911 for you. If it were possible to have moved the truck to the side Im sure the driver would have done so, rather than leaving it in the middle of a freeway.

Apparently modern vehicles have a fuel-pump shutoff switch tied into the vehicle’s computer that gets tripped when a crash is detected. Assuming this truck had something like this, by the time the smoke cleared and the driver got herself sorted out enough to consider moving the vehicle, the engine was starved of fuel.

Automatic engine cutoffs. If a collision is enough to set off the airbags, then the vehicle automatically kills the engine to prevent fire and fuel spillage. Unless they were gonna get out and push, and I would not be doing that on an active freeway, that truck was going nowhere.

First of all, every single one of these heavy EVs has every safety system already baked in because of the higher overall cost. They have emergency braking, collision avoidance and lane centering as standard. Thus, they are better at avoiding hitting other obstacles than the average vehicle around them.

Looks like a cool, slow, fun way to die in a frontal collision.

Big EV bad. Small, compact, 4-cylinder hybrid city truck bad.

I really don’t understand why this is so much worse than so many of the cars we claim to love on here.

“Every vehicle on sale should be tailored to me: a young, broke, urban, liberal”

Jalopnik: We hate people with money, cars, trucks and EVs But we love brown stickshift wagons, reposting 7 year old posts and slideshows.

That just exposes you to having to pay space tax though.

Some versions of the CX-5 actually got painted trim around the wheel wells for 2022...check out the Signature and Turbo

Since all the tectonic plates float on magma, we all live on boats too and are not subject property tax.

Depends on the commute I think, but generally you’re probably right. Any commute that regularly goes through heavy highway traffic, a manual is going to be really annoying. If you have a lighter commute then it’s pretty comparable and potentially more of a fun drive.

Almost every comment in this thread so far is generally accepted enthusiast groupthink already.

Not going to fight. Going to add something people don’t think about...

They’re truckers. Don’t they already have piss bottles?

Probably too scared to go to the bathroom for fear antifa will steal their pee-pees. It is the level of logic they are on.

Who’s stopping these “adults”, as in fully-grown people, from going to the bathroom?