Yeah they really just don’t work and when most of the money goes to a third party company it doesn’t even help the city. I never got stung by the red light camera, they were in our sister city. Though I think there have been studies that show they can lead to more rear end collisions, since people would slam on the…

It’s not just that they would get your data, they will, it’s that they actively weaponize the data they collect. Look the US government spy’s on us, corporations spy on us, the difference is China weaponizes the data it collect’s in ways the US and corporations don’t.

We have one like that for a middle school on a feeder road for the highway, normal speed limit 55mph, 25 during school zone hours. Now I am perfectly fine with school zones, but like it’s on a highway feeder (frontage road for those not in Texas),  like there is never a kid walking to school lol.

Pretty much ALL traffic camera systems are like this where the lions share goes to the camera company. We had red light cameras here for a while, until it cam out the city got such a TINY amount, that and tickets given to people that didn’t in fact run the red light.  I never got stung, but driving through town one…

It has nothing to do with the government having zero interest, it’s simply this was the fastest solution to the issue.  You obviously didn’t read the article 

LMAO, *cries in poor* you lucky duck I have driven neither but see a Viper. I know Matt Farrah told the story of driving on the highway with the small block V8 Cobra they had at Gotham Dream Cars and said it was to this day probably the most scared he has been in a car. I always thought the Viper was cool, mainly…

How many children did it eat? LOL, but I think this might be one of the few “fast car slow exceptions”. The only car I have heard regularly described as more terrifying to drive, is a high HP Cobra

But ‘Merica lol. the whole global pandemic is also largely behind the surge of inflation.  But the average job numb nuts, and this applies to both sides, always blame/praise the sitting president for the economy which is pretty much wholly out of his/her actual control.

“they have to actually innovate and find more efficient ways to make the power.”

Well yeah your in Cali it’s ALWAYS more expensive there lol.

Exactly, a lot of industrial machines run old outdated hardware/software because it just works. Win 95 less so, but a machine running DOS barring a hardware failure will run 24/7 for like decades, because DOS just doesn’t crash, it 100% can crash it just doesn’t very often.  Computers in that type of environment…

Right those first gen cars were actively trying to kill you every time you drove it.

I mean not really, other than these cars are stupid expensive. Its that the regulations are killing these super low production cars, I mean the F80 sounds like garbage for what’s supposed to be this halo supercar, and it’s partly because of the V6 and hybrid system they had to use to fit into regulations. And that’s…

“ but they are “clinical” in how they deliver that performance and that makes them a bit boring.?”

The problem is all of the above. This is why I am behind exempting from emission and sound regulations on small run, small use vehicles, not NO regs but like walk them back to the mid 2000's. None of these are going to see a TON of miles, I would bet a lot never make it much past 1,000 miles, if that. Heck a modern…

Yes, but KISS, I mean there are still robots and other machinery that run via a serial port, and that has been outdated for decades. A lot of places run tech that is massively out of date because it’s simple, and it works.

Exactly doubly so when you consider Cadillac is seen as up market from Lincoln.  But cars are across the board to more and more expensive.  Partly because of all the new fancy tech consumers seem to want, think surround cameras, all the ADAS stuff etc. and partly because consumers will just pay for it.  And then…

I mean no it’s really not. This is like saying someone drank a beer 2 days ago and not letting them in the bar. They aren’t under the influence they just happened to use it previously and are now completely sober. While I do agree with your sentiment of their country their laws. But its a difference between googling a…

I thought I had seen something like that before. This is pretty much the same thing, just for EV fires and because of how EV fires work it makes a TON of sense.

Lets be honest all full size trucks/suv’s from US automakers have been approaching this for a while. Most of the full size trucks on local lots are in the 60k to 70k+, that used to be like higher end BMW Merc money, now it’s every fucking non WT model truck.