People also report frequently on McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc... crashes or self immolation. Tesla is the only one crying about it though.

To be fair to the media in this case, the Tesla system failed to classify a fire truck (i.e. a not-exactly-inconspicuous vehicle) as something that it should avoid hitting. That sounds like a pretty big failure to me; certainly it’s worth pointing out that the system perhaps isn’t ready for prime-time in that state.

No, that’s Jalopink’s narrative. The companies want one standard, not California’s, but just a single standard. The Jalopnik narrative is that they want the California standard.

Well you’re just a box of happiness this morning huh?

That’s the tricky part. There’s lots of money involved. Small cars in general are struggling across the all manufacturers in the US. I think Ford will be better off because they still have their small cars in Europe. GM is the one I’m curious about.

I wouldnt trade driving for public transportation. To be huddled like rats in moving boxes on someone elses schedule.

I’m not a techno-luddite, but when it comes to driving, I prefer an analog hands-on-steering-wheel user experience. We already have autopilot — it’s called a bus (or taxi or uber etc). It seems ludicrous to me that companies are spending so much cash to develop tech that allows you to watch TV while driving.

Drivers are taking their eyes off the road without concerns because they bought a system that says it drives for them.

The dumbass ADMITTED to using Autopilot and looking at her phone at 60mph?

The driver admitted that she was looking at her smartphone instead of the road. This accident was completely the driver’s fault. Next case.

The solution is simple: Have a physical key.

“They” in this case is the auto manufacturers, not the refiners.

If we could standardize to a single octane and maybe a small number of regional blends (versus the dozens now), we could likely keep cost rise down while allowing new cars another few percent of fuel economy.

Don’t have any photos of it around, but my mom drove around in a 1965 Fire-Engine Red Mustang, black leather interior, with the 4-barrel 289 V8. Was a noisy thing to be driven around in as a newborn, but was 1000% better than the minivans other kids got driven around in. Her dad was the original owner, bought it for…

My mom’s first car was an (at the time) brand new 1984 Trans Am similar to the one above, but my parents sold it long before I was born.

Not hers, but she had one just like it. White top and that cool PRNDL stick on the dashboard.

Corvette Z06 in jet stream blue. She traded an Infinity G37S Coupe on it. Both awesome cars.

Not Mom’s car, but this one looks identical. Her’s had the 351 Cleveland. She was a grade school teacher with a touch of lead foot.

I’ll probably end up donating it to the International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen in time. That seems like an appropriate place for a piece like this where it can be properly preserved and cataloged.