When $150 = budget for a set of earbuds, it’s possible that there’s something wrong with the world.

Ah, but you forget that most people don’t know that.

It is user error, but that most certainly does not absolve Tesla of publicly releasing an easy to defeat monitoring system.  User error is not an excuse that any other auto makers gets to use when their cars kill people, so Tesla does not get an exception. 

Correct. The operator is mistaking something called ‘auto pilot’ for something that automatically pilots the car.

Neutral:

Why do we continue this stupid USA vs Europe comparison like it makes sense. Euro regulations do not translate to the United States in every cirucmstance.

Can we talk about the Sport Line package that europe is getting that we aren’t?

The Corvette kept its composure even with mid-corner gear changes, so smooth were the shifts that they surely must have been lubricated by purist tears.

It would change the mustard into Nintendo knowing WTF it is doing. They’ve been consistently anything from clueless to deliberately incompetent when it comes to online everything, ever since the very beginning. “Friends codes”, digital - and not cheap - purchases that are stuck on now obsolete devices (hello Wii NES…

I mean I’d be annoyed if I lost my console and had no way to restore my saves - with the Switch being a portable console, the odds of this increase. 

Similarly, a female friend was horrified when I explained the dish-like area in the portable toilet was not a purse holder. Not old, just a bit naive.

In many respects this shows exactly why sedans are dying. This Camry is a perfectly good car for 90% of the US population needs. You can get anywhere you need to go, carry everything you need to carry, etc with a Camry AWD. And it will do it inoffensively for an offensive amount of time.

I think I remember reading somewhere that the import of Holden vehicles to the USA was purely out of contractual obligation to their Australian operations. GM wasn’t completely interested in importing, re-badging and federalizing Australian-built cars, so they did minimal to no advertising.

But, they’re going to ban dino juice, so all their other sins are forgiven.

Singapore doesn’t have poor people? woah woah woah woah woah. Yeah, the US wouldn’t have poor people either if we went around an executed all of them and our happiness would be better if all our statistics were government owned, run, and manipulated.

GM is actually pulling out of Australia entirely according to other articles. Building RHD variants for a small region apparently isn’t worth it financially.

“GM’s official statement announcing the shut down of Holden basically points the finger at globalization and the company’s own insatiable thirst for fat margins and big profits”

Is it bad that I’m more curious about the machine that can measure than power than the one that creates it?

Looking at Cadillac’s history over the last ten or so years, their design team would create an absolutely drop-dead gorgeous concept off the C8, generate a shit ton of positive press, have people clamoring for Cadillac to build it, and then put a face-lifted XT4 into production instead.

I feel bad for the monkeys, but man it’s hard to argue that it’s not the lesser evil. I sure as hell don’t want my next round of medical advances to come at the end of another tragedy like the Holocaust...