I think I learned more particiating in History Day in Middle and High School than from any history teacher at any level, and my mom is one of those. Thanks for helping out with that and also, nice job to those girls. 

[Ralph Nader] Ask yourself: why is it that there’s never been a meaningful, impactful, or challenging exposé written by a car journalist?

The CC R line is a great ride for a Fortunate Son who was Born on the Bayou.

I don’t see how this is much different from a door that is frozen shut on any other car. On one car I had in the past, the door handle broke off when trying to open a frozen door.

It is  not a flamethrower, it’s a door key!

Supposedly Toyota took the engineering teams for the new land cruiser out in Australia past cell range by 50km and said - “now your system is broken, what are you going to do?”. And the purpose was to show then where the vehicles would actually be used and why it was job #1 above all else to make the components…

The gray-beard master tech saw me struggling to do that once. He unbolted the front engine mount strut, rocked the car back and forth, and stabbed the parking brake with the engine tilted forward. All three rear plugs were staring right up at me.

Texas Mode engaged: Attack Cyclists

Back when I was a teenager the salvage yard I used to keep my car running had a mechanic they recommended so I started visiting him. He was great because he was crazy and willing to try anything.

You know what the OPPOSITE of those assholes who don’t bother cleaning their car off fully before driving is?

I fucking HATE people that can’t be bothered to clean their roofs off.

They should have just been up front with their customers.

Not to defend Tesla and Musk, but MANY new car’s don’t come with a traditional spare anymore, instead they had a patch kit and air pump.

That’s just, like, your opinion man. Here in crunchy older white-person suburbia, it seems like a quarter of the cars are Outbacks or Foresters. Anyone who doesn’t want to seem ostentatious or only has one kid gets an Outback. 

I haven’t been in any vehicle with any kind of driver assist akin to what’s talked about here or in Teslas, etc. but I have to think that, done correctly, with your unfettered focus on what the car’s systems are doing, at the ready to take over at any moment, would be more tiring/numbing than actually doing the…

The one thing I’ll do is, when someone’s tailgating while I’m passing, I wait until there’s a proper distance between me and the car I just passed before merging, which means there’s enough room for an asshat to squeeze into the gap and pass on the right. That’s when I put my blinker on and slowly merge into the right…

It’s unclear if the two had had a prior run-in on the road, or if the truck driver simply didn’t want the sedan getting ahead.

This goes way beyond shipping costs. This whole thing has opened up the eyes of companies to the consequences of adopting lean without mitigating against the bullwhip effect. This is what I’m always on about utilization rates. High utilization = high efficiency, but also extremely low disruption tolerance. Your…

You’re damn right that Norway should be proud of their fjords, Slartibartfast won an award for them!

From watching the vid and watching the screen, you can tell that the car “sees” the things it’s attempting to crash into. And yet, it continues right at them anyway (or tries to pass the one car likely because there was no or insufficient dividing lines, which is super common in cities). This is…almost worse than the…