Tail light arrangement copied from the Polestar 2 I see ...

“Tesla Model 3. It has some weird halo effect despite being ugly and having a bargain basement interior... And that’s before getting into the quality issues.”

As a Euro transplant living in America, I still don’t get the hate for European cars. For the last 19 years I’ve owned VW’s, Audis, a Jaguar, two Land Rovers, and a Volvo. Some have been new, some have been 50k+ miles. Beyond regular maintenance, none of them have ever skipped a beat. The one U.S car I bought - a Ford…

Something involving zero skill is what constitutes a “challenge” now?

Hat-tip to the Landrover dealership in Bountiful, Utah. Always been a pleasure to deal with them.

Honestly if anyone thinks they’re going to find a host who’s never once said anything even faintly controversial, we may as well just cancel the whole show.

For full transparency, I have - in the past - owned not one but two Honda Elements, so make of that what you will. At least I never stooped to a Pontiac Aztek.

It’s 2021. Sadly, trolls use victim-blaming to inflame conversation all the time.

the system must be able to get out of active traffic lanes when requesting the human to drive, freeing the human from having to remain constantly vigilant and ready to take over with no warnings

1st gear - it’s not just beta9.2 - it’s NEVER been great. And it’s never been self-driving. He needs to stop with that shit - Tesla “FSD” is a glorified Level 2 system and nothing more.

Wait - that’s KIA? FFS I thought it was “KN” - some new car brand. I even rented a “KN K5" for 10 days for a road trip a few weeks ago and had no idea I was driving a Kia. I remember picking it up at the airport and saying to my wife “the rental car business really must be desperate if they’re using off-brand cars now…

I’d say this whole thing needs much better messaging. To the uninitiated, it’s not at all clear from the press stuff, up-front, that these are electric vehicles. The knee-jerk reaction will be “you’re protesting climate change by rallying in area suffering climate change?”

How about Soylent Green and 12 Monkeys. Those are also both way to close to the knuckle at this point.

For what it’s worth, almost all flying boats have nose hatches. For helping with rope handling and tying off when docking. I’ve flown in a couple of CL415 waterbombers and it’s an absolute riot. Love those planes.

You’ll love it but be aware of four things.

Do we yet know what the redesign looks like? The original concept truck would largely fail every occupant, pedestrian and cyclist safety and thus had no hope of ever being sold in Europe, Asia or Australia. The exterior “exoskeleton” body material would fail crumple tests so it wouldn’t even pass US regulations.

There’s a larger issue at stake here - the same with all proposals for self-driving cars. When YOU drive, you’re typically paying attention and aware of the surroundings outside the car. Roughly who is where, what sort of speeds are involved, how many lanes, where the next intersection is etc. All part of the data you…

Context is everything. “Autopilot took them to the point of the accident, but then switched off so the fact that the car then coasted into the truck at 70mph had nothing to do with autopilot” ... SMH.
That’s like people who say that they didn’t kill someone by shooting them. They shot the gun and then the bullet - out…

I bet the isolation of covid has a lot to do with this. People have spent so long in their online political belief-enforcing echo-chambers at home, they’ve forgotten how to interact with real people in the real world, and are converting miS-spELLed SHoUtINg In wEirD CapS into acts of physical violence, thinking that’s…

Are Tesla’s really that hard to override? In my I-pace, just the slightest amount of force into the steering wheel is enough to take control. If his car was actively fighting the driver input (“vehicle just wanted to keep going straight”), that’s a problem.