Something going through my windshield, especially at highway speeds. Always start to get a nervous when I’m behind someone on the highway with a poorly attached load of random junk in the bed/trailer. 

I think Final Destination did a good job imprinting that fear into an entire generation.

The lashings will continue until moral improves.

I fully agree that it is completely doable. I’ve been part of 100s designs for outdoor utility equipment in multiple states. The cost/care a company is willing to put into it makes a big difference and Tesla is the one who put the most into it. Now Elon kicked out everyone in that chain of command and I have little…

That was my first thought. The word “crew” does a lot of lifting when that crew is 1 or 2 people. They probably got docked for a late arrival, too.

You cannot compare something that sits out for public use versus an appliance in a personal garage. The wear and tear on that public item will be 100x worse and the variety of vehicles using it with all different software means they have to work for everyone all the time.

Very much this. A more accurate headline would be “a group of assholes circling a car cause the self-driving system to malfunction”

If they would have trained it based on Florida driving, it would have just plowed through all of the riders.

I have coworkers that have done various electric sites from the design side. I’ve also bid multiple Tesla projects, either directly from them or indirectly from their expansions. The Supercharger team is (was?) the only functional team they have, everything else is chaos. The Superchargers are also more reliable and…

The header image should have been that gif of Bender laughing, then saying “oh wait, you’re serious, let me laugh even harder”

It’s unlikely a Tahoe is the actual dream. Owning expensive things and pretending they are a casual purchase is the real dream. 

Most inflation calculators just use general CPI, which doesn’t apply to cars very well, as they have increased slower than CPI for several decades. However, $40k for a cruiser like this was a lot back in 2002, so it’s really hard to gauge where it would be today. This would probably compare to a modern Stinger or 300…

I would rate the 80s model as non-descript. It wasn’t attractive, but it also wasn’t ugly. Just kind of existed in the sea of 80s sedans. This 2000s version is actively unattractive.

Think about every modern crossover coupe — every X6 or Cayenne Coupe - and gaze upon their forefather.

This was an odd investment. The ugliest of all Thunderbirds, so not even something I’d want to go look at for 22 years. For the current ~$17k, I guess it could be okay car to just own and use as a low mile convertible cruiser. Even with that, I’d still be quite nervous about whatever has dried up over the decades.…

The i8 is easily one of my favorite BMWs, and probably cars in general. All of the color patterns look great and it’s one of the few that I think pulls off the black stripe styling they use. At least around me, these things haven’t dropped below $50k for examples with 50k-60k miles on them. The sub 30k mile options…

One of the perks to those non-American countries is that there are way less people driving 5ooo lb SUVs while looking at their phone and going 60 through town. Adults are barely willing to put themselves on motorcycles any more because of our SUV arms race, let alone even think about kids on them (beyond dirt bikes in…

I’ve personally not had good experiences with AA & United, but I know some people who swear by them and are willing to pay the extra for it. I’m actually kind of surprised Spirit/Frontier/Jet Blue didn’t dominate the 1-2-3 for this list. I guess it’s just the rest of the flying experience they try to ruin.

I just mount a fire breathing robot dog to the top of my car. 

I’m sure SCOTUS will find a way to ruin this, but in the meantime, the FTC finally did something about non-competes on the national level!!!