I believe this is kinda adjacent to automatic number plate readers and how police can effectively track someone’s location buy buying information from companies aggregating data from those ANPRs.

Not gonna happen in time for those 88 cars, unfortunately.

This bodes well for the LC250 which is probably what’s coming over to our market.

Hey man I’m all for the semis! Delivering goods and produce is much better for the town than a heavy ass car or truck carrying a single passenger 90% of the time.

Yeah but semis are 35,000lbs empty (about 17.5 tons) and 80,000lbs full (40 tons). Divide that by 18 wheels and at best it’s about the same as a 4 ton EV dividing its weight across 4 tires (1 ton per tire), loaded they’re 2x worse (2.2 tons per tire).

Agreed. I clicked 100% expecting to read a story about some girl in an SUV running down a cyclist. This was not at all what I expected.

Wouldn’t tall and narrow be the way to go if you have a super heavy vehicle? Take advantage of all that weight and sink the tires to the hard bottom layer.

Well he was averaging 165mph, so 120 would have been at the lower end of the speeds he was running.

The problem is the safety regs weren’t written to take trucks and SUVs into account. NCAP just created an arbitrary test where they smash a ball into a car’s hood, and made the recommendation of having extra space between the top of the engine and the hood.

What’s funny is that it was pedestrian safety regs that forced those higher hoods in the first place. The theory is cars need to have a gap between the hood and the top of the engine so that when a pedestrian smashes his head onto it there’s a bit of a cushion.

Altezza RS200 version is even better coz it swaps the position of the tach and speedo to put the tach up front and center.

Man, I hate that as much as I hate the Starbucks card. Someone ought to tell these guys they’re an EV charging station, not a wallet, and certainly not a bank. I don’t care for their shitty app, and I’m certainly not going to give them a free loan by loading money into it.

analbumparty!

Some of the modern chains are pretty cool and are made of rubber, with (optionally) embedded studs. Judging solely on looks it seems to me like they’d be able to run longer and at higher speeds without breaking compared to actual chains.

I love how the overlay just says: Braking 60-0mph: 150ft like the test was utterly unremarkable.

Saw this a couple days ago. The best part of the video is easily Jason’s illustrations of the “Cybertruck” and “911" in his diagrams.

Even the super-beautiful Totem GT Electric is touting “125dB of external sound” as one of its headline features!

Remember when everything started with a stylized e, or i, or had an x in it?

Wasn’t there a video with Akio Toyoda taking it to the parking area of a racetrack and speaking with another dude, and in that conversation he says it’s being launched soon?

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