I can envision a future where my autonomous blob goes about my child shuffling errands while I go out and hoon my old 911 in the country effectively doubling my VMT at that point in time.  So study checks out.  

I’m glad someone’s trying to put numbers to this. It’s just obvious IMHO. I hadn’t even considered the zombie rides but if you don’t have to actually drive the car, your tolerance for being in it (where you’re now able to do other things) is likely to increase and so will your miles driven.

<whispers> They also already have a Mustang.

Still a million times better than any Tesla. Well, that’s a given though since all the other companies are actual, proper car manufacturers...

Many American brand cars did a similar thing semi-automatically by allowing the fabric of the head liner to sag, tear open, and inflate when the windows were down, shading everyone in the back seat.

Why not just say what people are thinking David? Seems like GM already has Jalopnik on their shitlist so you won’t get a demo car anyways. Motor Trend almost comes out and says it and they did get the car. I’ll go ahead and say it:

Yep. I’m all for ads paying for the internet. However, I will turn off my ad blocker once you use rational ads. Ads that take over my screen and cause my browser to lock up are not rational.

As someone without a background in marketing or ads or any of that crap, I can tell you these piss me off to no end and make me run an ad blocker. I also avoid sites that stop working when ad blocker is on.

Just a side note: The auto playing video ads are really annoying. As someone who works in advertising and has had experience with rich media ads I can tell you they don’t work and its a great way to turn off users.

Don’t think the Americans wouldn’t do that.

I always thought the american dish of biscuits and gravy was, like, cookies smothered in beef gravy.

A deuce is a 32 Ford. The line is referring to someone street racing one of these.

Well, I learned something today.  I don’t think I really had an idea what the whole line was, but Mott the Hoople definitely wasn’t in it. 

Blue canary in the OUTLET by the light switch! :) The bird is a plastic nightlight, hence the bit about its ancestor keeping rocky shores free of shipwrecks.

I got two for ‘80s fans:

I just recently discovered that the opening line to R.E.M.’s “Man on the Moon” is not “Martin Luther in the game of life,” but “Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life.”  In the context of the song (by one of my favorite bands I have been listening to for decades), I suppose either one works. If anything, my version…

Those are practically tasteful by Dodge owner standards

They show the results of leaving them on, and it’s dirty scratched up paint.

All this means is that people with used cars and yellow guards will upgrade to the purple guards so they can make others think their car is new.

Dodge: Please take the shipping covers off