What is that from?

LMAOOOOO OK I’m with you there.  Have a star!

The first reason??

Mine was my mom’s ‘85 Maxima. The entire dash was digital, including a very cool bar-graph-esque tach. It also could talk. It was like a video game on wheels, super comfortable (very plush suede-ish seats), and had oomph under the hood. It even talked.

Oh, and this car is so ugly.

Many would also say that the Earth is flat.  Stupid people are stupid.  Intelligent people know that’s an absolutely awful analogy, likely rooted in racism.

Same to be honest. I was ready to believe the cop did something shitty, but as I read the article, it’s hard to imagine what other options were present.

LOL take your goddamned star you magnificent bastard

Yep. My dad was an analyst for a commercial credit-rating agency, and he was ranting about this when I was young. He later acknowledged that it (as a trend) had gotten so much worse.

R&D is usually the first to go when corporations need to cut costs.

All cops are fucking bastards.

I mean, you do you, but I prefer vehicles with some track record of reliability.  Not sure what “American cold rolled steel” has to do with that.

what

Ironcially, the better such systems work the more people over-rely on them, and begin to tune out, and drop their vigilance.

Mine works great; I have yet to have it brake at a ghost.

My car has the adaptive cruise control, where it maintains a specific distance from the car in front of me and matches speed. Sure enough, people will squeeze into that space, which makes my car slow down to recreate that space, and so on.

We clearly have wildly different views on what makes cars good.

Yeah I had a ‘70 Electra Limited when I was in high school (early 80's). It had been my grandparents’ “nice car” which meant they usually drove their station wagon. So when I got it, it had 30K original miles. It needed belts, and the gas tank had rusted (and the tank was no longer available from Buick as it was a…

Compared to the rest of the GM line, sure.  Compared to what the Japanese and Europeans were making? Eh.