Sweet, I can’t wait to walk beside my car in the garage when a faulty sensor sets one of these off to launch me into a wall. 

“Hertz spokesperson Tressie Rose told ABC Action News, “False reports of stolen vehicles are extremely rare.””

It should be fucking NONEXISTENT.

I didn’t say the sensors shouldn’t be there...because they absolutely should. I’m saying they shouldn’t be the sole input. It’s pretty pointless if your car steers around the obstacle only to ram into another vehicle because there wasn’t enough reaction time. It would be best the vehicles communicate so that both…

I’m setting the over/under for the novels to ever finish to be.....never. GRRM is gonna die of either diabetes, heart attack, or stroke before he sniffs the finish line. 

This sort of system cannot succeed unless the cars are networked. Relying on signal observation and behavior anticipation is shortsighted, expensive, and dangerous.

I travel a lot for business, you can tell which business travelers are parents (a category I fall into) because they just bring a set of headphones to tune it out or conk the fuck out when there’s a kid crying.

People just don’t know until they have kids. I used to have similar thoughts until I decided to reproduce. 

Why do non-engineers make shit like this and think engineers have a use for it?

Also, any competent CAD user can create that vehicle in ~40 hours if there are no constraints. Does his vehicle meet any sort of engineering requirements? Where the design parameters and dimensions given to him ahead of time? That’s where…

Oh god. TLDR. Under no circumstances would spending anything more than a couple hundred in repairs on that VW shitbox would be worth it. Change the brakes and keep regular oil changes until it dies at ~180k miles...which is probably exactly when it would die if they fixed all the other problems with the car anyway.…

Yes they use the same permanent magnet rear. BUT the AWD/Performance models use an induction motor for the front in concert with the permanent magnet motor in the rear. This is all out in the public and well established. Even Elon Musk has put it out there:

Can we all admit Elon is just a hype man that doesn’t actually know what the fuck he is ever talking about? He knows big words and uses them convincingly on stupid people, but most of what he says...in technical terms....is gibberish.

Permanent magnet motors are lower quality parts and do not have the same instant “jerk your fucking head back into the back seat” response like an induction motor does.

This can be easily seen on a base Model 3 vs the performance Model 3. 

Other than the chine, there’s very little stealthy about this aircraft. I would bet it’s RCS is similar to that of a small car. 

“but also with how badly it wants to continue living on.”

No Dave....no. It has proven time and time again IT WANTS TO DIE. You’re the one who insists on violating it’s clear request to DNR. 

The more Torch articles I read, the more detatched from reality I think he is.

“Work” trucks will be the absolute last vehicle segment that becomes electrified...especially if they aren’t part of some massive light duty corporate fleet. 

Which is basically what I said. The “dad who needs to carry shit” isn’t driving an F150, they are probably driving a crossover or a sedan. I fall into this category, and I would probably buy this. 147hp and all. 

I don’t see how. The truck bros are never going to buy this no matter how much power it has. This would (and should) be marketed to the market that is buying crossovers right now. 147 hp is perfectly fine for their purposes so long as it gets decent commuting gas mileage.

So, that might add $10k(ish) to my $15k number if they deck the block/heads, line hone, torque plate hone the cylinders, balance a new rotating assembly, use forged parts, and upgrade the valve train. That’s what I’ve spent in the past having an engine builder do all that for me on an 900hp LS.

However, for a 150hp…

The outgoing highlander’s third seat is only appropriate for midgets. No normal sized adult (hell, or even a tall pre-teen) can sit back there.

Model specific kits are generally overpriced too.

I am assuming labor in a decent shop too. I can do that work myself for ~$10k in parts but just looking at the whole package.