Soooo...Trump, a Republican business man, wants to limit Ford’s options in a free and open capitalistic society? I’ve always wanted a pure business person at the top of the pyramid, but Trump is obviously not the person for the job. He cares WAY too much about social issues and how people should discriminate against…

I’m not buying the “Corvette brake application” claim any more than I buy the “Jeep transmission shifting” claim. I’m calling BS on all of these claims, unless they provide a network (CAN, LIN or Flexray as appropriate) from a legitimate engineering tool. ECUs that are compliant to contemporary global diagnostic…

You know a merger or part ownership by Mercedes equates to “I get access to that ____ every....” Just like what will happen to Aston Martin.

Thats pretty much the whole point... Keep your fucking toy in the backyard... I don’t drive my remote control car down the highway or even down the street for that matter. Cool toy, you’re a douche get a life and go fly your Drone for a fucking living somewhere.

why not? They’re honestly the best pit stops in racing. Perhaps if F1 pit stops required this much timing and coordination Mercedes wouldn’t win nearly any week.

Ok, cool piece. However, I’m going to knit pick something you said to the effect of, and I’m paraphrasing “iraq will be known as the worst military failure in modern history”. Please make the distinction that that failure can go on the shoulders of the Intel and leaders on Capitol Hill. I spent 2 years of my life in…

From the Wired article that started this whole thing:

Lets be honest Patrick. I would LOVED to have seen this in action, i.e. NOT on video. I would love to see how they over ran a mechanical connection to the car like a steering wheel, or brakes. The guy let go of the wheel and didn’t stop the car. Thats how it ended up in a ditch. Same as any other car, hacked or not.…

the two hackers were also working closely with FCA the entire time. in order to patch it you gotta hack it. and patch it they did.

I was under the impression that the initial report from the white hats required a wired hookup to the OBD2 port. Chrysler then dismissed the problems as being unlikely to be a real issue (which I agree with). Then these guys went back to the drawing board, decided what cars were most vulnerable and then worked on a…

You fucking suck when it comes to safety, Fiat Chrysler. Stop sucking so much. In order for people to buy your cars, they need to not be dead. I’m no fancy MBA or engineer, but even I get that part.

You mean this?

If you’re buying this car on a fast food budget, you deserve to be broke.

Counterpoint: For a good three years after graduate school, my closest guy friend drove a teal Kia Rio while I drove a black-on-black 944 Turbo. But I worked all the time and spent free weekends auto crossing [if you’ve never done it, it’s even more of a sausagefest than track days], while he left the office basically…

Make sure to budget for *good* tools (not necessarily professional mechanics’ stuff, but not Harbor Freight either) when you consider the cost of projects and maintenance. After a few years, you’ll have the stuff you need for all but the most esoteric jobs, but until that point, tools *will* be a non-trivial part of…

That’s one hell of a post. Only took me 1/3 of the way through it to realize that it would be easier to just star it rather than clicking on each image.

I love how Collin Powell gets a free pass from you. By then the man was a retired 4 Star general who had already overseen one middle eastern war. Do you really think he didn’t have the experience/training/intelligence to see through the information he was given?

Because I thought “scumbags” was a little harsh.

Tell you wut; despite Tesla being banned from selling directly and delivering cars to customers in the state in a specific way, it’s not being enforced. Like, at all.

“Higher stakes” and “less politically correct” doesn’t have to mean less safety or that we want anyone to die. This is bullshit false equivalency.