My Grandfather was a Ford dealer in the 1960's. With all the hooplah around the release of the Mustang he bought the first one on the lot, and immediately took it on a road trip from the Portland Metro Area down to San Diego to attend my Uncle’s graduation from the Marine Corps, along with my Grandmother.

it is a bullshit law used as a pretext for harassing black people and teenagers fishing for the classic “I smell pot”

ACAB. 

This is why I buy those little clip on ones that you slide into the vents. I must admit I would love a more personalized car, I see people drive around with all sorts of mirror charms, and stuff laid up on the dash, bits and pieces of decoration around the body work, but I ain’t doing that. You never know what might…

The police can pull you over for ANYTHING. In fact, they can pull you over for driving too well.

9.3 seconds to 100kph?  What is this, 1992?

I see a sort of mechanized lift in the image, and while that is maybe better than a ladder in many cases, it’s still going to take time and introduces many points of failure.

I am amazed and shocked.

an article on Jalopnik about an Elon Musk related topic that doesn’t take random unrelated shots at him out of personal spite.

Bravo Torch for defying the mandate of hate.

Jalopnik: “Here are 28 interesting things...”

Yeah, but how was the bacon though?

Lots of jobs have been pushed over to the consumer: calling a company and having a human direct your call, checking out groceries, pumping gas and checking oil. None of those jobs were automated.

It took me a while to get used to this when I moved from PA to NJ. And there are times where it’s annoying to wait for someone or I gotta let a dude with a dirty wand hit the windshield.

Now I want to see a full-service Buc-EEs. That would employ a LOT of people!

Why would I want to get out of my vehicle in Jersey for? As soon as I entered that state I wanted to get the fuck out immediately. Full-service allows me not to get out of the car and get the hell out of that state ASAP. 

Bring in a national minimum living income payment, and then I’ll support wiping out the last few remaining survivable low skill jobs. Not everyone is capable of training for jobs with higher skillsets than pump jockey, and, with the march of automation happening in a way totally different from history, we totally need…

I’ll get interested in autonomous car tech when it becomes good enough to drive me home while I take a nap in the back seat... and I can do that legally.

Good article - as someone in the industry its still funny to see how bad everyone is at predicting things. My only “nit” is on how you described L3 and L4 in your fun little graphic.

Agree all around. The optional bigger engine tows more than enough for most ppl and the bed could be useful. I mean not for ppl who populate this forum and seem to move plywood and build homes from scratch every weekend but for normal ppl itll be handy to dump some shit into and drive off.

If only Subaru had continued the development of the baja...

What would make someone want to do this, I wonder? Just a powerful, fuck it, I’ve always wanted to try it urge? Maybe they really, really had to pee? A grim and steadfast refusal to let some stupid bridge tell you what to do? Just being from Florida?

Maybe they were on a mission from God to save an orphanage through a charity concert hosted by their old band.