A traditional steel frame would handle that impact better.

The F-150 that it was towing was experiencing the exact same forces on the other end of the chain, and was completely unscathed. Any body-on-frame pickup truck from the last 30 years would have been fine.

But the car also failed to recognize the motorcyclist also. Shouldn’t the car ,or the company that made the automated system, be just as liable in a situation like that? Would a human be allowed a license if they couldn’t actually drive up to minimum standards as long as they pinky swear they will have someone sitting…

You could have just stopped after “Elon is an arrogant ass”

Elon is an arrogant ass for insisting that cameras are all that are “necessary.”

Former Jalop writer Jason Torchinsky had a great take on where we are with driver assistance. Which is that the current level of autonomy is far more dangerous than driving one’s self.

If a driver accelerates into a motorcyclist, killing them, they should lose their licence (pending a reasonable investigation) along with the potential for criminal prosecution. We have all the data we need from the FSD’s recordings that the software is faulty and should ‘lose its licence’, as now we have the same…

Setting aside the fact that riding, for me, always comes with being hyper vigilant, Tesla vehicles have joined semis in the category of special assholes to be mindful of because, statistically speaking, they sure as fuck aren’t being mindful back.

It’s simply insane that this Tesla system is legal for use on public streets. I truly feel for the family of the motorcyclist, and its pisses me off knowing that Elon will barely give it a thought and sleep just fine tonight on his mattress stuffed with all those billions of dollars.

It’s ridiculous that a system that requires a drivers full attention can easily let a driver completely ignore the operation of the vehicle. I see far too many Tesla drivers on the highway just staring down at their phones. The driver is certainly at fault, but so is Tesla for designing and implementing a system that…

Speaking of the black cows, excuse me let me answer, the black cows love me! People are saying I hate black but I love black! What a rude thing to say about me. And they love me. I’ve done more for black cows and quite frankly all black animals than anyone since the bible, ark, I think. They’re saying Noah? They’re…

I understand that times are tough for Jalopnik right now, but whoever is currently maintaining your site has made it nigh-unreadable. Whenever you scroll to the bottom of an article, it leaves the article and takes you to a random Root web page. It’s absolutely maddening and I won’t be returning until it’s fixed,…

Every day people find new and terrifying ways to justify the death penalty.

But the 911 doesn’t time-travel.

This slideshow being published including mkIV Supra slander is blasphemous sacrilege. And why no 4th gen Eclipse??

That’s not a 1953 Corvette, that’s more like a ‘58 that included significant improvements like a 283 ci V8 with 290 horsepowers. Damn kids these days.

They’re telling me the cows eat grass. I think, for Hindu that’s not so bad, right? The cows are there, eating grass and it’s a beautiful thing. Hindus understand this very well. Me, I don’t like grass so much but the cows love it! They’re saying it’s much better for the environment than eating meat, so I’m totally…

“He just called me out of the blue,” Mr. Musk said. “I don’t know why, but he does.”

Becareful.  Soon, the GOP will make it illegal to take someone to the polls.

Trump says what he thinks will work in the moment. He has no values or beliefs. If he finds himself in front of a crowd full of Hindus he’ll declare that his Trump Steaks are vegetables. You can’t lie if you live in a world without truth.