Finding a specific Subaru in Portland. This should be fun.

Except the working solution has been known and used for decades. Tesla ignored the accepted design because they thought they were smarter. They’re getting chewed by their own hubris.

Cars have been around for 120 years or so. These things should not be unexpected at this point. Putting a huge, thin, fragile sheet of glass where body parts can impact it easily in a crash? Not being able to open the glovebox without power or the control screen? Easily foreseeable to a real car company.

You could just write “I don’t know what I’m talking about” and say the same thing with more concision.

Tesla doesn’t seem to know much about human factors engineering. They change tradition and use that touchscreen for functions that far more efficiently and accurately are performed the way they have been for 50 years - buttons and switches that drivers can operate without any need to look away from the windshield. And…

Tesla: Should we proactively assess the hazards associated with our cars, and find mitigations?

I wonder if there’s anything else that could be used to open a glove box? Like a mechanical linkage that may be operated manually? Have any other manufacturers done such a thing?

Get off my lawn, too

Mostly thumbs.

Driving with 3 degrees of freedom is the number one, non-health related cause of death yet somehow people think driving with 6 degrees of freedom is the future. 

Most asshats can barely drive a regular car! Flying cars? No thank you.

There’s no explanation on YouTube or Reddit about what exactly caused the incident

Am I the only one here who doesn’t give a flying fuck about flying cars? I mean I am not against looking forward to the next big technological progress but this seems like a futile exercise.

only 2 years away from full production, people!

Ford Ranger RS. Still in the, uh, prototype stage...

You mean like a parallel hybrid PMAC/CBR1000RR 1960's Honda? I’ll hit you up in a couple weeks; I’m still trying to figure out how to fit 1/4 of a Chevy Volt battery in the trunk.

Because they fill different roles. Would you order a new batch of hammers to replace your nailguns just because they’re cheaper?

No, both have situations where they’re useful, and while there’s overlap, there’s enough specificity that a fully invested party will have both at their disposal.


In this case, the B-52 is…

Because we’re not retiring the B-52s any time soon. A new B-52 would be more expensive than the ones we have flying.

“May we all live in a world where none of these planes are necessary any longer, and may they all be retired long before their time is due”

Oh for fuck’s sake, Ballaban. This is one of the most inaccurate headlines ever on Jalopnik. The proposal currently on the table is to retire the B-2 in the 2030s, if the B-21 program goes to plan. Note the words “proposal” and “if”.