Remote pilot over 5G like they do today.

No, but selling Level 4 trucks to shipping companies will.

Na “real” trucks start at Class 5. Surprisingly they can be purchased for less than the little toy trucks that are so popular today.

Yes, trains are great for moving cargo.   The problem is that laying new tracks is VERY expensive - much more expensive than replacing a human driver on our already existing interstate highway system.

I worked with a woman that would sell a car the first time it needed a repair outside of the warranty.   It didn’t matter how small or even if it was a consumable like brake pads. 

They could easily be paying 50% of their income to live in that nice neighborhood.  I’ve stopped being surprised at how many people that look like they have money are flat broke living paycheck to paycheck.  (Even people with six figure incomes)

That assumes the seller has $2500.  63% of US households don’t have $500 to cover an emergency.

Waymo inked a deal with Daimler Trucks (Freightliner in the USA) last year.   Freightliner provides the trucks prepped for AI and Waymo provides the autonomous “driver”.

The place to use self-driving tech is long haul trucking. You put trailer switching hubs right off the highway. A human driver hooks up a trailer, sends the autonomous truck off down the highway 400 - 500 miles to another hub. Another human swaps trailers, refuels and inspects the truck, and sends it to another hub.

Extended cabs.

The Santa Cruz and Maverick are 4 door because 85% of trucks sold in the USA are 4 door.   Regular cabs are less than 3% of sales.

Good article and good suggestions.

Mini build this concept from scratch so I doubt they started with a complete car and then gutted the interior.  (Or sanded off all the paint to get the bare metal finish)

Whether or not it makes keeping an old car in more sustainable depends on what you replace it with. Roughly 10% of the complete life cycle energy cost of a vehicle comes from manufacturing it. The rest is from actually driving the car. So replacing an old car with a more fuel efficient car be beneficial. However, if…

No, there isn’t an eco-benefit to 3-D printing dash plastics. I used to work for a Tier 1 supplier making the dashes and center consoles for the Merdedes M-Class. The retainers (the plastic piece that makes the support structure for the dash) is injected molded and the extra injection sprues and runners that get…

An ecu is not just an ecu nor is a turbo just a turbo. Parts for different engines are different and in some cases come from different suppliers and different factories.

Not in the USA. Our fines are so low for missing CAFE requirements that it has been Mercedes policy for decades to just pay the fines. (The fine is $55 per 1 mpg) 

Wired CarPlay is a big miss in 2020.   Image 2030 - just 8 years in the future.   Will new phones even have physical charging plugs by then or will everything be wireless?    Will wired CarPlay become the CD player of the future?

Yes, take care of that clutch because replacing it EXPENSIVE. Mine started slipping 2 days into a 7 day trip. I babied it until we got home and then started getting replacement quotes.

Presidential tweets still are official statements.