Yet another case for our Elder’s to give us Pithy Quotes.

an assload of laxatives

Whichever law says that European safety standards aren’t good enough. That kills so many options since most companies (rightfully) won’t jump through all the hoops and spend all the money to certify something that might have limited uptake. This goes for anything from options like sport seats up to complete cars.

Chicken Tax!!

The 25 year import law would get my vote 

This is not some “kill switch” that cops or congressional pages can activate by just pointing a big red button at your car

I’ve never had a problem with either.

Having done forensics, I recommend not creating articles for the general public which are based upon the particulars of famous deaths. It too easily devolves into fetishistic debates, which are neither productive nor healthy.

To me vinyl roofs always look like they’re there to hide something, kinda like an automotive toupee.

ok but that actually looks fantastic

Yup, that’s why hearses have vinyl roofs—hide the wrinkles in the roof’s sheet metal that occur since the roof is so big, so flat as the monster’s skin flexes from going over bumps.

That’s better than when, while under FoMoCo, Aston Martin began using Volvo electronics and so literally just separated the keys off of Volvo fobs and covered them in leather. I guess a unique casing was out of the question.

If it makes you feel better, after years of Top Gear most of us, especially enthusiasts, would have understood you immediately, and most of the rest would have figured it out from context.

Having been through Germany’s TÜV inspection, I’m certain it would not have prevented this failure.

I'd rather die than live in such a jurisdiction.

I think the bigger concern here is the sentence stating “Will not exit passing lanes”. Does this mean from now on Teslas will be hogging the left lane 100% of the time? Lane hogging is already bad enough as it is. I am not familiar with Autopilot, can you set the speed like cruise control? If so then are we going to…

Gods, that is an achingly beautiful car!

Yep. And life could use more pulleys in general. More compound pulleys even!

I did use straps but got old and had a good coupon.