The same steer by wire and CAN bus architecture that frequently throw phantom errors and disable driving the car until they magically go away?

I've seen this firsthand. In the Bay Area we have a semi empty mall (Stoneridge), and over the last ~6 months I’ve been watching their parking lot slowly overtaken by more and more Teslas. Started as just a small parking structure, now they've taken over an area of parking roughly one block in size.

Ugh. In general, I’m not a huge fan of SUV’s, even small ones. But from the outside, this looks respectable.

I was just about to say that the base 911s can be had for MSRP without too much difficulty, then did a search and discovered exactly 1 new 911 for sale in a 50 mile radius (spanning 4 dealerships), and zero base models.

Jeez, that’s worse than the auto-levelling bi-xenon headlights in my 2015 Cayman. What the heck other sensors do they have packed in those headlights?

The player racks up enough money to casually buy top-shelf military arms and....military arms, and simultaneously own something like five properties including a large one downtown. I don't think Trauma Team membership would actually be out of reach.

Good luck finding one for that price 

I agree with you on a lot of points, but I do at least feel like the 5v5 single tank format is a lot more interesting than two tank 6v6.

On a similar level, I hate the glut of recent action movies with absolutely indestructible CGI cars.

Two votes.

That’s enough for a 981 Cayman S with less reliability issues!

I mean, that’s why they have the 1-week return period. It’s an extended test drive, and a good time to get it inspected by a outside source.

Okay-only tangentially related, but my 07 Civic hybrid has a cvt, and can also do engine braking (you shift into S or L for a different CVT mapping-on L the engine is at~4k or higher almost always). Is this not a thing with most CVT implementations? (And no, is not just regenerative braking, as the tiny shitty battery…

I think the point is: sure, they're all good, but surely some are still better than others. Since the "best" result on the test is now something every car beats, there's no way to tell anymore. You're saturating your signal and not getting any useful data. Any researcher/engineer will tell you that means it's time to…

I agree that a single, strict standard would be fine. Make it good enough for worst case scenarios (i.e. LA area), and call it good.

Saving this for when I've saved up enough to go hunting for one- very useful information!

It can be quite annoying, but it’s typically for pretty valid game balance reasons.

Except some things, like pollution, can have a far more profound local impact in some locations (LA), than others (rural Wyoming?), due to population density and geography. If the federal government doesn't do enough to protect people in the worst edge-cases, then those people should be allowed to protect themselves.

I don't think this would be cross-shopped with a 25mpg car. If you use Prius or Ioniq fuel efficiency numbers, the miles/dollar pretty much doubles for gas.

They can be very hit or miss though... I can’t seem to get Red Alert to run without massive input lag and terrible framerate. Neverhood is another game that took a fair amount of tinkering to get functional.