..and then blame Obama....

1st Gear : Rivian’s “dirty little secret” is that they’ve pissed off a ton of their early adopters. Me being one. I ordered an R1S on day-1 of ordering back in 2018. Red Canyon, black interior, large pack (not max), 21" wheels, quad-motor. I never changed my order since the day I put it in and it was about the…

Quick typo correction. “Street takeover” = riot.

So as a former green-card holder, I could be kicked out of the country for this sort of bullshit, but we’re now tolerating these “sovereign citizen” assholes because they think the rules don’t apply to them? Fuck all of them.

If as much money had been spent by investors on infrastructure and public transport in the same time, there’d be no need to keep chasing the autonomous vehicle pipedream. We don’t need self-driving vehicles. We need a transport solution that benefits everyone.

Carbon-ceramic brakes are great if you can keep them hot. Unless you’re regularly braking from 200 down to 60, they’ll be utterly useless in a daily driver. Expect to see a rash of more-money-than-sense owners put carbon-ceramic brakes on and then crashing because their brakes are too cold to work.

You’re absolutely right - this is a paranoia ever-present in Americans that I just don’t see anywhere else in the world. Americans seem to be taught to be afraid of everything from a very young age - don’t eat this, don’t push that, don’t cross the road, don’t speak to strangers, don’t go outside - “everything is…

I feel like the Beaulieu motor museum in England, and definitely the Louwman museum in the Netherlands are both sorely missing from this list. Louwman especially has many one-offs from early motoring that nobody else has.

“Tesla’s longtime role as the only premium EV has shifted to one of many options, with additional EVs arriving in showrooms every month”

Those are the worst colour selections since Mercedes went to “18 shades of business suit grey” :(

Accessible buses (kneeling and with automatic ramps) and trams and trains with level, gapless boarding platforms. And most importantly, non-car-centric infrastructure. Then you make sure that the trains connect easily to the trams and buses, and the trams and buses have stops in the pedestrianised areas where all the…

Kinda hoping that isn’t facing into the prevailing wind direction.

Seattle : The airport is the first in the United States to offer a bags-first customs experience, where passengers claim their bags before going through U.S. customs.

Republicans all across the country: “buT TheY’re CoMiNG Fer YeR JobZ!”

Not “bricked”. Bricked means “so dead it can’t ever be revived”.

It’s worse than that. A colleague of mine has an early Model 3 where the radar WAS installed and an OTA update back in February turned it off. Up until then, the basic level 2 system (I refused to call it “FSD” because it isn’t) HAD been using the radar. But now it doesn’t any more, the driver assist has degraded from …

Hydrogen is the most polluting to produce, least energy-dense fuel you can put in a car. It’s a dead-end technology that makes diesel look like a clean fuel by comparison. You CAN make ‘clean’ hydrogen if you’re willing to separate it from water using electrolysis, but that is expensive, slow, and costs more in…

“BMW’s been getting a lot of crap for its recent designs, but not all of that hate is deserved.”

And by “lax gun laws” you mean “basically no gun laws”.

PHEVS are the worst of both worlds. Get an EV or a regular non-plugin hybrid. PHEVS have pitiful electric range because of the miniscule battery, and can’t be DC fast charged (ie. you pretty much HAVE to have an AC home charger). When running on electric, you’re dragging around a tank of gas and an ICE - unneeded…