I’m kinda curious how something like this happens. Does Nissan not do their own testing prior to the official NCAP test?

That was a while back though, and IIRC the battery has become a more structural component of the car since then (as in they rely on it for chassis rigidity). Seems like something that integral to the car not falling apart would be difficult to swap out quickly.

Fat guy Culver’s hack: Order a small cone of custard with the rest of your food, most of the time they give it to you at the pay window so you can eat it while you wait for the rest of your food.

Their fries being bad is probably a good thing in the long run. I’d be there way too often if the fries were better.

Could be part of a larger investigation into who employs them and who decided cramming 25 of them into an Expedition was a good idea.

It’s especially frustrating with the really old consoles where you don’t even have to do “real” compatibility, just emulate the old console in software (like PC gamers do with DOS games for instance). A PS5 has plenty of horsepower to emulate a PS2.

Yes you can. My sister and brother-in-law drove from North Carolina to visit me in Colorado in their Volt, it had a small travel trailer with 2 WR250s in it for the whole drive.

No one needs 26 different kinds of deodorant?

It’s someone else’s fault you lowered your sedan and made it less safe?

I got a ticket a couple years ago for passing someone on the right while he was going 5 under in the passing lane. I gave him a thumbs up out the window as I passed him, the cop who saw me do it didn’t find that amusing.

If there is room to be passed on the right, there is room to get out of the way of faster moving traffic before that happens. This is true regardless of how fast you’re driving, failing to yield the passing lane to faster traffic is objectively bad driving whether a human or a computer does it.

We should be so lucky that all they do is drive off a bridge and kill themselves, unfortunately their cavalier attitude towards autonomous driving puts innocent bystanders at risk too.

If there’s room to pass you on the right, there’s room for you to get out of the way of faster moving traffic before that happens.

The answer is regulation. It’s not “no one will buy them”, it’s “not enough people will buy them for it to be worth it to jump through all the regulatory hoops needed to bring it here”. I don’t know how Australia handles auto imports but if they just accept Euro safety/emission standards then it costs almost nothing…

Yeah, it’s a good idea but it’s also an hour and a half away and costs money. It’d be hard for me to convince some teenager or 20-something to do that rather than just go tear up the interstate that runs right through town.

Eh, if anything this is just Tesla becoming more of a mainstream automaker. How many companies advertise the “only $199/mo” special only for you to find out exactly 3 of those cars exist anywhere in the country? And no, your dealer won’t go get one for you.

The drag strip closest to me has “race the cops” night where the State Police bring out their highway chase cars and you can race against them. It’s pretty cheap IIRC.

Credit to those salespeople, it’s a difficult line to walk selling the Honda powertrain as the best feature without revealing that the customer would be better off just getting an entire vehicle from Honda.

It’s just PR speak, you don’t wanna be seen trashing the devs publicly since that’ll make it harder to convince the next set of devs to take the project on.

Your country’s laws matter quite a bit in this context.