Probably because a new vehicle is easily replaced with a comparable unit. With an old vehicle in good shape, its unlikely a. that you will be able to find a comparable vehicle to replace it with and b. that you will receive a valuation from insurance that is equal to how you value the vehicle. 

So presumably they had to do this 1440 times. I hope they were well paid.

Every picture they posted looks like it was being run by some redneck with a vague idea of what a space ship was. 

Maybe this will just highlight my ignorance of the industry, but it seems like freight trains would be the optimal platform for testing autonomous control.

Haven’t watched the video but probably to take the weight of all the batteries on relatively small axles. 

Hey Michael, just to clarify what everyone else is saying: you’re an asshole. A jealous, bitter, fucked up asshole.

Preach.

Yes, this is a CP.

Alternate Title: I read Brian Lohnes’ Instagram and just take all my ideas from there without attribution.

Act of God, vulture. 

As an aside, does anyone else find the hitches that seem to be common in Europe on passenger cars to be distinctly and uncomfortably phallic?

You’ll take my baby for a weekend? Deal. 

Just a random note on one of those things I had wrongly assumed for a long time. The dials on the vast majority of toasters are not thermostats, they are timers. 

I have never heard a more English accent than that of the host/commentator. He could give the Queen lessons.

My comment was going to be that its nice they’ve stopped trying to copy Toyota and have switched to Audi, makes for some almost pretty cars. 

The Batmobile in these pictures is almost certainly some sort of custom body built around a truck chassis with fake cages and dramatic plumming tacked all over the place, as most prop cars are.

The wing is removed to reduce downforce and drag – dropping downforce from 1400 kg to 150 kg.

Edd is a good mechanic but has terrible, terrible taste. I actually like Ant better as sacrilegious an opinion that may be.

Possibly the cruelest thing you could say about any used car.

I don’t think hot box means what you think hot box means.