-Hey Alexa, get out of the car

Agree, this is a pet peeve with my truck.

Very slowly and you have to take your gloves off. So having to use them to operate climate controls is bad design.

The only acceptable reason for the steering wheel heater to be in the touchscreen is if you can set it to turn on automatically when remote starting the car.

I dunno, I find asking Alexa to do anything other than play music is clunky. Even then, it’s less than ideal.

Exactly. There are plenty of convenient bus routes and stops where I live, but do I ever ride the bus? Fuck no.

I know I sound like a broken record, but I don’t see the sharing portion of this dream being a reality. Give me a private living room/bedroom (bathroom?) on wheels and I’m in. I’m not down with a shared unit. Y’all are nasty. Maybe I am too.

“it doesn’t need to have 150 mph top speed or a 0 to 60 time in three seconds,” Ammann said. “We put the money in where it matters for the customer, and we take it out where it doesn’t.”

I will say this, GM has been looking into self-driving for a lot longer than most companies.  I think their old idea of having special markings on the roads for AV vehicles to follow is likely going to be part of the ultimate solution to AV driving, even if the markers are projected location/waypoints from GPS or the…

Don’t use ricer. I know there’s some ex-post-facto acronym work done on the term, but it has its roots in racial stereotypes.

I love “The Stupid.”  --sounds like something that should show up in the next season of Stranger Things.

A couple of years back one of my best friends really wanted to pick up a lease turn-in C-class since he was in sales and at the time was doing 750+miles a week.

People at work gave me grief when I bought my Viper, but their brand new Platinum pickups out in the parking lot cost twice as much as what I paid.

There’s another regional Houston-area C&C, at a smallish commercial development in the Towne Lake community, that pulled the plug last month after the video loons tempted enough people into doing The Stupid that they ended up with property damage when a (stock) Tahoe fishtailed, climbed a curb, and took out a bunch of…

The only way it restricted itself was by the nature of its format, down to unwritten rules of who was “worthy” of attending, as Driving Line recalled in its obituary of the original Crystal Cove/Irvine event, shut down in 2014.

Lowriders and Donks are associated and often affiliated with crime. Supercars, muscle cars, and tuners aren’t.

Seriously, you are clearly not from Houston. It is one of the most culturally diverse citys in the nation and this also includes culturally diverse car people. Yes certain groups tend to go towards certain vehicles, but at the Houston C&C every culture is well represented.

It’s interesting. Mustangs, Challengers, Chargers, Infinitis are what you could call cheap speed, or a democratization of power. You don’t have to spend supercar money to get what was supercar performance not many years ago.

Aside from how overly White these events are, which I’ve pointed out before, I think that the stupidity of people leaving and wanting to be seen in their cool cars is an issue that is sometimes ignored, depending on the area. Big time if the events are held off of main busy streets.

Someone from 1320 Video in the FB comments promoting responsible automotive activities is a new one for me.