Indeed, it’s even more of a problem for them (as it should be) given that they’re headquartered in California which has many more workers’ protections than most states. Tesla really needs to address all of their personnel and culture issues, and quickly.

I think the “hasn’t made a profit” thing is a bit unfair. They’re making profit margin on each Model S & X (from what I understand), they simply haven’t turned a corporate yearly profit because they’ve been reinvesting so much of their capital, which is not unusual for a new company of this scope (and some would…

Indeed. I remember a decade ago an engineering staffing company opened an entire design center employing around 50 engineers at my alma mater, Purdue. The sole purpose of that center was to work for Sikorsky, because Sikorsky didn’t want to directly employ these people for various reasons. Employee…

I never said the article wasn’t interesting. It was, and I’d like to read more like this one. This one particular paragraph just felt out of touch to me, as so happens when reading auto journalism. I probably shouldn’t have bothered commenting, but c’est la vie. There doesn’t appear to be a delete option on kinja…

Yeah, I get that. It’s just that the way this is worded makes it sound like owning an exotic car is easily within the means of most regular people, which it certainly isn’t.

As a former E36 owner (whose first order of business after buying the car was to replace the entire cooling system) I lol’d.

Most of us don’t have the money to buy a pre-owned exotic car, either (unless it’s really really old). I am amazed at how many auto-journalism publications are seemingly out of touch with the means of their average reader or viewer.

The steering rack itself is probably unlikely to fail in a catastrophic manner (though it could happen). What’s more likely to fail is the method of actuating the steering, which for an autonomous car would be these motors and for regular cars would be the human (assisted by electric or hydraulic power steering in…

Such a tired argument. Our energy grid is getting greener everyday - it won’t happen overnight, but we’re making significant progress. Also, EVs are much more energy efficient even when running on “dirty” electricity, due to the massively higher efficiency of electric motors over internal combustion engines.. You also…

Thank you for the helpful info. I’m not sure why the author would have written that.

Indeed, they’re very shady in that regard. The amount of DLC you needed to purchase on top of the Ultimate Edition of Motorsport 6 in order to get the entire game was ridiculous.

Hmm... I was planning on buying this right away, but I might keep playing 6 for a while until 7 drops a bit in price. Everything I’m reading in these comments is very discouraging.

“In previous iterations of the series, players could turn off driver assists like auto-braking in order to earn better rewards for racing. Now that’s all handled by these mod cards. “

I understand why they want to move a car off the lot before ordering, but in my case a) I had already checked inventories online in every dealership within a 4-state area (and found nothing) b) they kept trying to push cars on me that weren’t even close to what I was looking for (such as a car with an automatic trans…

It’s not just a couple of manufacturer’s dealers. More manufacturers than not have at least a high percentage of shitty, sleaze-ball dealers. There’s a reason why almost everyone (regardless of what car they drive) hates going to the dealer for anything.

Someone in sales correct me if I’m wrong, but I think they get a lot of their commissions from financing. But yeah, it boggles my mind that they’d let a potential sale walk out because they’re too stupid to deviate from their script. Only getting a commission on the car without financing is a lot better than nothing.…

You might be right about this. I feel like Hyundai and Kia have made good steps in getting to where the Japanese carmakers were in the 80s and early 90s, but it feels like they’re jumping into the high-end/luxury market a bit too quickly. Even if the time frame was similar for when the Japanese started their own…

I’m scratching my head wondering why everyone keeps clamoring for a new rotary/Wankel engine. Given how much development and refinement has gone into improving piston driven gas engines over the last decade, what would be the advantage of a new Wankel? I mean, I guess it might be a bit more efficient in the…

Actually, from what I’ve heard and read on media outlets such as NPR, the ex-military guys are usually the more restrained cops, especially those who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. They said the reason is because those guys are trained in de-escalation and not to fire kill shots unless absolutely necessary. It’s…

I can’t remember which movie it was, but I was watching a Cinema Sins a while back that I turned off after a couple of minutes because almost every single point that they made was a disagreement over style rather than any actual “mistakes” in logic, continuity, etc. And of course, as others have mentioned, the run…