“My savings are zilch and my debt is high. I will likely have to dig into my retirement account to cover a down payment”

Side Trivia— There’s a wonderful Art Deco era building in London’s Kensington neighborhood with a great restaurant inside. The building was Michelin’s HQ in the UK back in the “glory days” of the tire business...

Clutch replaced yes. Wear on tires and brakes is negligible. Maybe tires depending on how bad they got roasted. But certainly not brakes. He's asking for a lot but they should work with him, they screwed it up. The manager is equally responsible as he hired the techs

I expect the Russians would have similar sorts of trouble in high heat. An average Siberian summer day is in the 60-70F range. Chicago routinely gets 90F+ midsummer days.

They must be using a different type of steel or rail configuration.  They obviously have experience with the cold.  In WW2, the Russian tanks had no cold weather issues...the German tanks would seize if they shut of the engine.

How the fuck could you go to sleep knowing the system on its own is not safe?  Nod off dreaming of your decapitated body under a semi?

This is why GM’s Super Cruise has a camera to detect an inattentive driver at the wheel. https://www.wired.com/story/cadillac-super-cruise-ct6-lidar-laser-maps/

And that would have happened almost immediately, but very likely he’d have veered onto the shoulder, been honked at, rubbed a guard rail, or something to wake his ass up. I’ve been dumb and driven while tired but rumble strips or the terror of my eyes shutting has always jolted me awake and convinced me to pull over. 

You know why this keeps happening don’t you, because Tesla named this feature fucking AUTOPILOT! Regardless of it’s actual functionality people here Autopilot and they are going to assume the car TOTALLY drives itself.  I think Tesla should be legally required to change the name of the feature, of course that’s not…

Sure there is.  If he hadn’t defeated the safety features the car is supposed to fucking stop.

If you want even more proof of this, take a look at that Electrek video “experiment” this week of some Tesladyte in Quebec using A/P on a snow and ice covered highway. The car REPEATEDLY crosses the center line into oncoming traffic. Over and over. The oncoming motorists must have been peeing themselves....

What you want to do is get in front of them, speed along until you start coming up on a slow moving vehicle or obstacle in your lane, then at the very last moment swerve out of the way.

This was shot by a reader who’d prefer to remain anonymous,

No, it most likely isn’t. At best it’s equally unsafe, but even the texting-and-driving-idiot you describe most probably has a faster reaction time than a despicable douche who is sleeping.

I want to say something cheeky like “stop posting these articles and let the problem solve itself” which would be totally appropriate if they were only endangering themselves but the thought of someone losing a family member or members due to the selfish actions of one asshole in a Tesla is equal parts tragic and…

A lot of the Bangle hate for the E60's design seems to have disappated as well. When it debuted the E60 was widely panned. Now many are calling it handsome. Out of the Bangle Era designs the only one I genuinely dislike is the E65s and that almost entirely due to the back end. I always preffered the Z4 to the Z3…

The way this whole thing is going, when Ivanka gets indicted Trump is going to immediately issue a statement that she was just some low level staffer who he had very few interactions with and who just sat around and made coffee all day. 

Not to mention you’re guaranteed the S54 engine, unlike the clown shoe, which only got it the last year or so, If you can even find a Z3 M with the S54, you’ll be paying through the nose for the privilege.

I don’t get the obsession with the clown shoe. You can get the same stellar drive train for less money in the Z4 M coupe. As an added bonus, it doesn’t look like a clown shoe and the interior isn’t from 1997. The main appeal of the clown shoe is that it’s weird, rare and not an M3... This is all those things and good…

Best thing about these sequels.