The VW Up has this exact setup. I believe there’s also an app that shows car info and media options. The new Fiat 500 has a similar setup on the base trim. I’m sure there’s more brands; seems to be European thing.

99% of people in the USA, maybe. Here in Brazil Waze rules, by far.

Lol.

I’ve thought long and hard about this and while I’ve never read it anywhere, I have to believe that the reason we don’t have proper phone mounts in cars is that manufacturers don’t want to be on the wrong end of litigation about distracted driving.  Creating a phone mount in the car basically invites users to user…

How about this: a place to put your own phone so that it is hands-free. Don’t need thousands of dollars of car-installed equipment, when everything you need is on the phone. And if it’s not, the phone can be upgraded. Hell, the back-up camera could use one’s own phone as the monitor.

I knew the party was over when Google bought Waze, the only real competitor to Google Maps. I guess $1,000,000,000.00 is hard to say no to.

VinFast sounds like a competitor of Carfax, not an automobile manufacturer.

As a Quebecker where we have high hydroelectricity resources (thus somewhat cheap electrolysis) am all for green hydrogen.

I’ve had mixed results. I’ve had it drive acceptably for an hour+ at a time stops across states, only breaking away to go through the correct lane of a toll booth. This included suburban neighborhoods, left turns from traffic lights, highways, passing on the highway, exit ramps, rural back roads.

Let me add one little extra piece of information.

Do you think the next stage going to be “that one guy in college who nobody wants to drive with because although he’s never crashed he just doesn’t give a shit about road signs or common decency so every trip is like being in an auto cross race”?

I must have driven the newer version - I found it to drive like a kid who just got his learner’s permit. Which is to say that it seems to know the theory of driving, but has had zero practice and is going to do the wrong thing most of the time unless the conditions are perfect. But not a drunk kid. So that’s better, I…

See I think the problem is that all of the Tesla cars on the road today will never be able to achieve the Level 4 they promise. That the current tech on the cars (cameras and computer hardware) is not capable of performing that level of automation. So to actually use FSD as marketed and sold to them - all of them will…

Worse is that if Tesla finally gets it working in several years, those who bought FSD package in 2016 will have a car with ridiculous mileage, wear and tear and probably will be in the market for either a new Tesla or something else by that time.

Where does morality come into this?

I’ve heard that too. My doctor, a family friend, has an XTS with Supercruise. It’s absolutely not better. I think certain publications ranked it better because it tracks your eyes, which is a good safety feature, and was developed using Lidar for mapping. But there are so few places that it works, that it’s…

I’m not entirely sure it is the best system on the market. From everything I’ve read, GM’s “Super Cruise” is at least on par with Tesla’s Autopilot, if not possibly slightly better.

An interesting sidennote to this ruling is that, as usual in such cases, the manufacturer does not have to reimburse the customer with the purchase price, but rather with the purchase price minus a fee for wear. This fee is dependent on the expected lifetime of the vehicle and the mileage covered..

The sheer cliff face that is the front means that they should be mandated to have school bus mirrors installed:

“An overpowered sports car driven by a lunatic is going to be just as deadly on the streets if it hits a kid or pedestrian,”