For someone who has been driving for a decent amount of time, I say the proof of whether they are a good driver is their accident history. If they haven’t been driving for 10+ years, it’s safe to assume they are a bad driver until proven otherwise (which is part of the reason why teenagers have sky high insurance…

I’ve been daily driving manuals for 20 years. I still think about my technique and shifts almost every time I drive. The perfect heel-toe is something perfected over a lifetime.

First gear: the main purpose of any car key is just to keep the car from being low hanging fruit for thieves. If a sophisticated theft ring really wants your car and it is parked in public, they are going to get your car with any normal security system. No amount of encryption is going to stop a flatbed tow truck.

An engineer friend was offered a job at the Boring Company. The experience he relayed to me was this: they strung him along for round after round of interviews including a flyback to meet with the head honchos. The job would have required relocation to a higher cost of living area. They kept being evasive on salary…

If failure to use airplane mode caused problems with airplanes, there would be strict compliance protocols. I would expect almost every single commerical plane in the air is carrying passengers who neglected to switch (I admit to forgetting from time to time). But, there are still two good reasons for this feature to…

If Rivian, Lucid, and Tesla can all make proper Frunks, then so can GM/Honda. IMO, the reason they omitted it is they decided it would cost another $10 per car but they don’t actually care about having more sales because this was never more than a stopgap so they can say they have an EV for sale. 

Lucid and Rivian have proper frunks too. It’s all of the old-line ICE manufacturers that seem to omit it. 

The lack of frunk with that big gaping hole at the front of the under-hood area is just laziness. The packaging under the hood also looks like it could have been done much more compactly. 

But sounds like at that rate you could burn through the $15k of free hydrogen before the lease is up. I’ve heard stories of people just having to park their Mirai and drive something else because the hydrogen station near them closed or they ran out of free hydrogen and it made zero sense to keep driving the thing.

Capturing only the hydrogen is easy. The Hydrogen goes to the cathode and the Oxygen to the anode. You just separate them in the water and have a vessel above the cathode to capture the hydrogen. You can do it as an Middle School science project.

“Regardless, saying that the Cybertruck isn’t actually rusting when rust is appearing on it sort of feels like the “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” scene in “Wizard Of OZ.” Surface particulates or the truck itself the results are the same; what you end up with is a new vehicle covered in orange spots.”

I don’t think I actually want to watch it, but it does sound like an interesting tech development platform. It could also help understanding of human driver performance.

10/32 is way too much for a tire that’s going to see a lot of track or autocross use. I’ve had plenty of tires that heat cycled or aged out for performance driving use before losing 8/32nd of tread. If you are buying a car that comes with a tire with 6/32nd from the factory, you are buying something with a pretty…

Costco sells all sorts of tires. I’m sure you could buy a tire there that disappoints you.

For all its faults (and it has plenty), Tesla is one of the better manufacturers about not nickel and diming you with options. Other than color, the worthless “full self driving” that nobody in their right mind should buy, and an optional wheel choice, most Teslas have basically no options. Compare that to Porsche…

Depends what car your are buying. I don’t want my GT3RS to have the same amount of tread from new as I do on my F150.

The problem is your grocery getter weighs 5,000 pounds these days and needs those 6 piston Brembos just to stop repeatedly from normal highway speeds.

You must have the world’s cleanest example, as going rate private party for one of those is $10-15k. Go to a dealer and ask for a brand new N52, and I guarantee you are going to pay more than what they’d pay you for a trade in if it were in running condition.

Well, the good news is she doesn’t speed and hasn’t had an accident with another car in 10+ years. There are much worse drivers out there. There is next to no public transit here and no realistic alternative to driving. 

Her vision is fine. No instructional course will fix the fact that she just does not have her head in the game when driving. It’s not about distractions like phones, it’s just her mind does not naturally focus on the act of driving.