Well now I understand your apprehension, but you somehow have it completely backward. Cities are well defined and most of the challenges of driving in the city are well suited to the strengths of autonomous vehicles. Cities are ideal for self-driving cars compared to suburbs and rural areas. And musk’s tunnels are a…

I agree that self-driving cars are nowhere even close to being ready. The tech itself is decades away, the AI simply doesn’t exist on any level close to a human driver, and automakers can’t even design a new transmission without years of trying to make it work right. I can’t trust my vehicle to change gears…

My previous car was silver and it hides dirt and scratches very well. At one point, I went literally three years without washing it and you could barely tell the difference. The downside to silver is that it’s basically invisible at twilight and i’ve had a few people clip the bumper of my parked vehicle in the…

Electronic LSD are distinguished from mechanical LSDs. So a computer controlled clutch is electronic while a viscous coupling or torsen is mechanical. Brake based LSDs are a type of electronic LSD and are typically called something like virtual lsd or just lumped in with TCS

Getting in and out doesn’t look that hard for a young and flexible person. I’d be more concerned with stepping on the seat and then getting dirt on my pants when I sit down. Or looking like a fool trying to help my passenger get out.

I’ve heard similar stories from a car salesman, where people have want to trade in their 2 year old car because its so bad in the snow/rain (when really it just needed new tires).

Ironically, I came here to note that the headline “mclaren hits house” sounded like victim blaming. The driver is likely the one to blame.

So automakers can save some space on speakers and all it will cost them is designing the interior panels around their acoustic properties? Right....

This video makes me very sad for two reasons:

I hate my work van. The transmission is a dual-clutch and chooses gears like my grandmother and operates the clutch like a driver’s ed student. As a practical joke, it offers manual shifting which responds to requests in anywhere from five seconds to never. The worst part, however, is that smooth inputs do not produce…

Sounds like a justified fear. If my hands and feet were wheels, I’d be terrified of going on a boat.

Let’s not be so quick to blame the vehicle.

You can tell what was going to happen the moment his front end visibly lifted up. By the time the weight shifted back to the front, he had run out of road.

I generally refuse being a passenger because most drivers scare the crap out of me.

I cross shopped the two as well. On paper, the Mustang was clearly a better value in every way. I even went into a dealership, checkbook in hand, to test drive one.

I drive all day in city traffic and regularly avoid accidents that would have been someone elses fault. Over many hundreds of thousands of miles, Ive gotten very good at recognizing when someone is about to do something stupid.

There is nothing to fix. Above 25mph the manual transmission can keep the engine in its power band. The only time it might be an issue is in low speed autocross and/or track driving at the limit where a gear change will cause the rear to come loose. Never on a road have I needed more power yet been unable to downshift.

Google needs better maps if they ever want their autonomous vehicle to work anywhere outside a grid of city streets. I do deliveries and the number of addresses google completely botches is unbelievable. I regularly submit edits with descriptions like “330 is between 3rd and 4th, not between 5th and 6th”. And thats…

A big reason people like physical controls is that it gives instant feedback. If I am driving and want more heat, I just turn dials to where I want them. I can configure the HVAC any way I desire just by feel.