Yeah here they go into “older” areas of town, for instance the street I grew up on, and buy existing houses, more often than not they are in fine enough shape, like not falling down shit holes, and tear them down to build what are referred to in town, though there is also a company by the same name, “Aggie Shacks”,…

Yup and while it might be a pain to go through the time and expense of pulling permits, that time and money is still gonna be less than the fines you get for not doing it the right way to begin with. But also my mom is the type of person to come up with some big project but have no clue how and what it involves to get…

We have a couple of districts like that in my town as well.  But we also have damn investors buying up houses in older neighborhoods tearing them down and building 5/5 houses for student housing in what were normally single family areas, and just driving up the house prices for everyone.  And these 5/5 houses they…

There are a couple of reasons why it wouldn’t really work in the US. First and foremost is the sheer size of the US, it mostly works in the northeast since geographically things are close together. But say in Texas where I live, like it can take a fully DAY to drive across the state, and that’s at 70+ mph. But the…

Makes sense, it was doubly strange for me since my dad passed like 30+ years ago and my mom essentially didn’t date ANYONE until her and John got together so I was like oh ok that’s a thing now LOL. The oddest part for me though was she 100% picked up his mannerisms like the way he talks, he does a weird pause…

LOL, well in my defense, I am 44 and they got married like 4 years ago. That’s WAY to old to be considering anyone step dad. My BFF has a similar situation, his dad just got married earlier this year, his mom passed a couple years ago, and we have joked about it, in our opinion it comes down to how much parenting has…

“Typical upper-crust thinking.”

That info is out there and pretty easy to find, also I think having a device on/in your car that can strobe at that frequency is illegal in some places. Also I don’ think the Opticom sensors are very effective, we have some here and I have seen emergency vehicles get “stuck” by a red light. IIRC they are supposed to…

Honestly probably the only one is a bro dozer

True, but I don’t think taking a car to the track ruins it, I mean unless you crash lol. But it’s the same reason people who own G Wagens don’t off road them. Its a 100k+ vehicle they don’t want to destroy it, even if something like the G Wagen, or M5, is perfectly capable at doing the job.

This is news to NO ONE lol and frankly it applies to the vast majority of super/hyper cars as well, even track day specials. It’s about money they don’t want to risk wrecking their 7 figure car. Hell it’s why Shmee150 has yet to track his Zenvo TS-RS at the Ring.  He has taken every other of his cars to the Ring at…

Pretty much, that the AI in the car would need to account for every possible situation at all times, is why it’s going to take decades.  Add in that it would truly work, at least well, until ALL vehicles are connected so every car knows what every other car is doing and where it is.

That still needs human intervention.

Exactly, I don’t know about the whole neural network thing, but we are decades away from true AV, and that’s assuming there isn’t some AI implosion before then. Once it runs out of, or nearly runs out of, new data to “train” itself on and starts training on other AI generated data it’s going to enter a feedback loop…

this at the end of the day all these AV “decisions” boil down to if/then decision, that’s it.  

How has it taken this LONG to finally realize this lol. This is 100% proof of why FSD has always been utter bullshit. If it can’t do it in what amounts to a 100% controlled environment, what makes anyone think it can do it on a public road.

Exactly, they effectively make two vehicles, a sedan (S/3) and a crossover (X/Y) none of them really look all that different from the others.  To be fair a lot of auto makers don’t make huge changes.  Heck I drive a Chrysler 300 and it’s only had 2 generations between 2004 and 2023 though it has had a few face lifts,…

Well Tesla has their own issues lol, Musk is a BIG part, but also their iterative design means for the average joe there haven’t been any meaningful changes to the cars, except some minor changes to the outside, and frankly I think the earlier ones looked better.  Inside, well there isn’t much there to begin with, and…

I disagree, a bit, the main reason for the slowdown IMO, is most EV’s are expensive and they are coming to a saturation point in the market where the people that wanted one have or had one. Another issue again IMO, is their prices TANK hard on the used market, access to the Tesla network while a benefit, isn’t really…

Agreed, they aren’t going to be super quiet, or Camry quiet as I mentioned in another comment, but while they will be loud, if you keep the revs low and the gear high, which many do by default in auto mode with the DCT, they aren’t really screaming like they would be if you are holding the revs high. In stock form, no…