Since it’s a rate and not an absolute count, the math issue with Elon’s comment isn’t that Teslas haven’t racked up the miles, is that the situations involved with “all cars” and “Teslas while using autopilot” are very different.

Tesla should not have been allowed to name their system “Auto Pilot”. At this point in automated driving, no commercial product should be allowed to be named such that it may be construed that no input is required from the driver.

FUCK! I feel so duped! I can’t believe I ended up with this crappy sub-par and cheap Golf R. If only I had purchased a kwality american car instead! Oh, wait, the only american equivalent is a Focus RS? OK! I’ll buy that!

EPA v. CARB:

california should win if republicans bullshit states rights chants mean anything. they wanna bitch and moan that states should get the right to set their own rules on obamacare and such should extend to legal pot and emissions rules.

I’d think anyone who can afford the payments on a $60k truck/SUV should be able to afford a 20-30% increase in gas prices. In reality, anyone who this will affect likely couldn’t really afford their new gas guzzler in the first place, so I don’t feel sorry for them.

Wait, you’re saying this wasn’t the work of Catalan separatists?

But my opinion, which is shared by exactly none of my colleagues, is that HUDs are more harmful than helpful.

Not smart...

I’d argue that you’re spot on. However, a certain other group of thinkers in this country see the allotment of public funds to improve pedestrian/cycling infrastructure as pure commie bullshit. “Screw those poors, if you aren’t driving a car, you don’t matter. And my red-blooded American ass shouldn’t have to worry…

100%,

Why aren’t there sidewalks on this road?

It’s not weight, it’s shape. A person hit by a sedan, especially a smaller one, is likely to go up and over the car, a much more survivable impact. Someone hit by a big, tall, flat-fronted suv is gonna get pushed down and under.

No one is “running into traffic without looking” as you say. Walking, maybe, but when you say it like you did, that’s a good example of how we’ve allowed drivers to no longer be responsible for hitting people in the road just because they aren’t normally there.

You seem to have missed my point. I understand supply and demand, and what effect that has on prices. These prices don’t reflect that. The incentives do. The incentives are there to bring the price down to what consumers are willing to pay. The existence of the incentives proves that the MSRP is out of line with the…

The only tool in a truck now-a-days is the driver.

Incentives of that size are just proof of how arbitrarily inflated the MSRPs are. They ask a lot to “give” you some back, so they still make bank, and you feel like you got a good deal. The charade is that they never don’t have incentives. They might be slightly higher now, but it’s not a significant bump from what…

Nah, we’ve been trying that trickle-down theory for the last 38 years, and it isn’t working.

Not only they won’t hire people, but they will go as far as buying stupidly expensive things if it only help them pay less tax. Golden rule is to not let it trickle down in any possible way.

Yeah, but the guy in the story is b****ing about spending only $2k to get his 911 “running right”. If his budget is that tight, it is objectively stupid of him to buy the car (sight unseen?) in the first place.