Ugh this is so stupid, serg. Zero people have died from the vaccines? It’s more like many thousands, just to be factual. VAERS is widely panned in the media but the fact remains that it is the single only method anyone has to share a report of an adverse response to taking a vaccine. In fact, because the difficulty…

That’s why I said back in July that we need to go door to door, offering a vaccine or a jail cell. Coddling the stupid during this pandemic will only make the next one that much worse.

The short circuit is a hardware failure, but the software is unable to identify the error and the car accelerates. Since hardware is expensive to replace, I’m betting they’re programming the software to identify the error and allow cruise control to be disabled rather than creating the run-away condition.

Am I the only one to consider this a good thing? Sure, FCA might have made a major fuck up in their product, but do you know what they’re doing? Voluntarily owning it. When MB owned CDJ, there were people reporting problems with their LX-platformed vehicles, and NOTHING happened for ages. I’ll take a company admitting…

The body control module on these vehicles are so tightly coupled and programmed that a few extra mah draw here and there will lock out a circuit.

Oh, yeah, that’s how physics works.

Fuck this constant anti-Uber rhetoric. Usually I don’t bother to comment but this is quite ridiculous. Yes, someone died. That is unfortunate, and steps should be taken to prevent that but this is progress in the real world. You make it seem like that never happens in other industries: aerospace, rail, construction...…

just another revenue stream for these companies.

Like a guy I know who drops off his 2000's era Land Rover at a shop, at night, leaves the keys in it, leaves it unlocked, sometimes windows open, and is disappointed when they get the call their car is ready. He likes it when it works, guess he doesn’t like it much then actually.

I saw a comment section without a stupid BMW turn signal joke. Wait, no I didn’t.

The problem with the inside of Cadillacs is that they look great in the photos, and then you sit in one. I really want to like the Cadillac line-up. I think their exterior design is striking. But every time I sit in one, all I can think is that I really want out of there... Like, quickly! Upon close inspection,…

According to some articles, the car was going around 95-98MPH. I’m not an expert on the X5, but it should have a governed top speed of about 125-140MPH.

On BMWs ONLY the brake pedal will operate the brake. As far as breaking, the car will do that automatically.

There’s some bad science going on below the line here.

Yes, they are, but with a caveat. If you try to control the speed with the brakes over time, rather than immediately applying them hard to bring the car to stop, you can fade them to a point where they no longer function. Your average untrained stupid panicky driver is probably going to do the former.

I think if you lose control of a vehicle for 50 miles, you should care less about your brakes boiling over, and more about NOT DYING.

C’mon, give the guy a brake!

Brakes are normally stronger than the engine’s output. 100-0 takes A LOT less time than 0-100.

I (and anyone else who notices) can’t take your point seriously when you use “break” instead of “brake”. It’s not sarcasm or mean-spirited, it is just constructive criticism.

Y’know what, so many other people have said this same thing, but since the Jalopnik writers can’t seem to be bothered to care about this horrible fact when they want to write another sentence shaming people for not having the recall done, I’m gonna throw my hat in the ring, too. Maybe since every comment on this post…