I recently drove a Tesla (Model 3) for the first time because they had a driving experience thing come to my corporate office. This is absolutely no replacement for people actually paying attention when they’re piloting a multi-ton vehicle (and I wasn’t behind the wheel long enough to know if it consistently works),…

Were there at one time? I really thought the elimination of pop-up headlights was for that reason. I also seem to remember a lot of cars designing hoods and such with pedestrian collision in mind. Was it just automakers being responsible, or was it required at some point?

I’m sure I could probably find an answer online, but I never really understand how the giant trucks pass pedestrian-collision safety laws. I’m guessing the answer is that trucks and SUVs have their own carve-out, but have a lot of changes to cars over the years been in the name of being safer in the event it strikes a…

Subaru Solterra has to be the most though, right? 

The Santa Cruz is one of those vehicles I’d answer for a QOTD prompt about a car that you irrationally kind of like. Like, I can’t foresee a circumstance where I’d ever own one, but I also kind of like something about the way they look. I had similar feelings when the Kona debuted. Just funky enough in the right ways.…

I mean, I wouldn’t want to own it, but I certainly wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to take it for a spin.

I hope this sets a precedent for sexy suspension appreciation in other cars. 

I don’t disagree that BO on flights is terrible, and if it’s bad enough I don’t have an issue with someone being removed from a flight. THAT SAID, from the story it sounds super unlikely that was entirely the case here. 8 different men, who didn’t know each other, and weren’t sitting together all got removed for the…

Now I’m having fantasies of going back in time with like a Pontiac Aztec or Dodge Caravan and winning the thing. 

I’m really curious what was said. I’ve seen 2 different videos of the fight, and you can’t hear anything of the conversation in either. Regardless, the conversation looked a little heated but relatively civil until the punch. Just seemed to escalate so quickly.

I know it sounds like some of that department has been rehired, but I really hope most of them landed elsewhere and told that temper tantrum prone toddler to kick rocks.

I don’t think there’s really much consumer value in robotaxis. All it’s doing is saving the company managing them overhead on paying employees (savings which I’m sure would only be passed onto consumers long enough to drive competitors out of business before jacking the rates up so the shareholders don’t suffer). But…

I truly don’t understand how they screwed this thing up so bad. I feel like one of the benefits of EVs is, theoretically, the platform should be somewhat modular. I, admittedly, don’t know essentially any of the engineering details to the CyberTruck, but it feels like they could have just tweaked the model X platform,…

Maybe. I admittedly did not watch any of the linked videos. Just going off of what the Jalopnik post said.

Her husband financed $78k for a 2 year old truck? I can’t tell if this is rage bait, or I’m just this out of touch with the general population.

I kind of feel like a list of models not included would be shorter.

Obscene vanity trucks. For example:

I feel like Myth Buster and/or maybe Top Gear tested this, and they were still able to force the door open shortly after hitting the water. Obviously it’s going to get harder the further you sink (until pressures equalize), so I imagine being able to quickly know where the latch is is key. The flip side of waiting for…

So what exactly do we think a “Tent mode” would do?

I wish I could give more than 1 star. Bravo.