I sadly believe that the general public will eventually treat cars like iphones where they “upgrade” every 1 to 3 years as the tech gets obsolete.

Except that is less and less viable. Modern cars or near or at the point where going aftermarket is going to be impossible. It’s one reason you don’t see aftermarket stereos as often, it’s not just swapping out a factory head unit for something new. When EVERYTHING is controlled through the screen it’s no longer about…

Disagree. It’s pointless to add even more cost/complexity to a car when the owner will never plug it in.

Drive a 2005 Porsche with upgraded head unit with AA/Carplay. Everything you need, nothing you don’t. 

Nah - every practical, commuter car or utility vehicle should be.  But space should be made for the few remaining performance cars to keep internal combustion alone, with a stick shift.  The Miatas, BRZs, 911s, etc.

Bring back the Fiesta as an electric, and boom, Ford’s answer to the Chevy Volt. (Which for some reason, Chevy stopped making?)

A less fancy Rivian. 

There are specific Concours classes for unrestored/original cars, it’s always my favorite part of Pebble Beach. Once you’ve seen tons of overrestored versions of the same car it gets kinda monotonous

Based on the wheels in the photo, that’s a 2005 BMW 325i which has 184hp and has a 0-60 time between 7-8 seconds. Compared to a base Honda Accord from the same year, the base BMW isn’t significantly faster or more powerful.

This BMW has a 2.5 liter engine with 184 horsepower. That’s not much these days. You couldn’t even get a Camry or Rav4 with less power and displacement than that. That graduated license rule makes sense (keeping 16 year olds out of lifted F250s, for example), but it wouldn’t have saved anyone in this case.

There’s no way that discussion doesn’t get ugly as all get out.

Or some cashier kept saying they could and then laughed as they all got towed away.

Good. Fuck em.

No. Yes. Indeed.

I am going to need to hear more on this “immunity while legislation is in session” bullshit.

Am I the only one getting auto-forwarded to the Root as the first “related” article pixel that pops up at the bottom of the article or the end of the comments. 

I actually like floor shift automatics because that facilitates having the wiper controls on the right stalk and headlights on the left stalk. I’ve driven automatic and manual cars like that for decades. I’ve also had column shift cars with wiper controls on the left so I can adapt. I see no logic in knobs or buttons…

I mostly agree with this, and the little magic wand column shifter in my Mercedes wagon is pretty much the ideal. But I am ok with the center console fake stickshift automatic shifter too in sportier cars.

Annnd, that’s where we’re at currently. I can walk some users through to where they can delete the affected file, but we have a team that generates/access the BitLocker keys when we need them, and they’re all discombobulated. Some of the affected machines aren’t displaying the machine name, which that team uses to get…

FYI sysadmins are always people to cherish because they’re trying to keep things going. The problem here was caused by a mistake made by a DEVELOPER and then a whole failing chain of QA people who thought it was fine to push an update to hundreds of thousands of system, automatically, all at the same time (same day),…