Tesla's touchscreen gearshift is an ergonomic abomination.  The haptic shifters that don't move or return to center are almost as bad. The good old fashioned PRNDL that mechanically moves between notches, with a positive lock on park and reverse is an excellent example of a regulation written in blood.  

It says something about our broken ecology that there are so few native pollinators in most areas the we have to truck in itinerant bee colonies like insect braceros.

Yes, my thought is that we need a signaling system on selected routes which would make it like a driverless train. A controlled environment removes a lot of complexity. Autonomy on city streets is a goal not worth pursuing  

This the Dead Internet theory in action. Just as we say remember when MTV payed music? We soon say "remember when Google produced useful results?

The long September 

All you need is money. There are plenty of E Type specialists and enough parts to build one from scratch. For maximum weird, swap the original for a low compression Scorpion tank engine with a turbo, and give it huge wheels and fiberglass flares like a 70s mod sports car. 

Too much potentially expensive stuff to go wrong and it's beat, ND. 

Yeah, a well matched and tuned 4bbl with the right manifold makes plenty of power with less complexity. Unless you're running a 500 CI pro stock motor that actually need two Holly Dominators.

“It belongs in a museum" because it's effectively undriveable and is a lesson in hype, failure and graft

As a side note the last Vanden Plas to differ mechanically was the 4 liter R, which was a blinged out Austin A60 Farina with a Rolls-Royce B40 engine. 

Nothing would say jump the shark than a Lamborghini badged K car..

The 340 six pack was a production option back in the day. It obviously used a smaller carburetor than the 440 but with the right heads and valves a small block flows a lot of air. Look at the difference between the Ford Boss 302 and a same year 302 2 bbl.

“apres moi, la deluge”

Building an autonomous car is hard, Tesla's corner cutting makes it harder. The system failing to recognize and respond to a railroad crossing is bad the driver trusting the machine too long is worse. 

They got better. We had a 2014 Mazda5 that rode and handled nicely. This was the same platform as the Mazda3 and the last generation Ford Focus. 

Cool idea and great for high trust societies like Norway or Japan.  Unfortunately in our low trust society in the US it would be constantly vandalized,  homeless camps would set up toll gates and the first user to stub a toe would sue the company into oblivion.  

OK they have rediscovered the Fairey Rotodyne and addressed the noise issue but who will buy it?

I understand it’s a proof of concept but Honda is going to have to improve packaging. Right now they have basically replaced the sleeper with power systems.

It’s not “woke” it’s flags of convenience, low paid Asian crews and penny pinching ship owners cutting corners on maintenance. Cargo ships are a shit show of safety and environmental violations, the occasional ship straight up falling apart and it’s been going on since the 19th century. I guess it could be one of the…

I think the true believers just shelled out for Partial Self Driving up front so the 98% reflects normal folks who tried it and didn't like it. FWIW my personal sample of Tesla owners, 2 of 3 would never use it and the third said he'd use it occasionally.  The maybe guy is an IT admin, the no ways are an engineer and…