welp.... guess its gonna be a quiet racing season this year

The Taycan has a transmission, it only has 2 gears, but it’s still a transmission.

Manual transmissions solved this long ago.

It’s written in an incredibly and unnecessarily snarky tone. Besides, for all his cleverness and in a rush to make fun of dinosaurs, the writer fails to grasp the bleedingly obvious: this technology can also be applied equally well to electric power trains, unless you’re no longer concerned with efficiency just…

It’s also pretty neat, and if we’re going to crawl our way to an electric future at a snail’s pace, some progress on the dinosaur-powered cars is useful.

You hear that Hyundai owners? A tiny fender-bender can now cost you $10,000 in repairs too!

Came here to say the same.

Mercedes, BMW and other companies have had GPS-based gear selector for about 8 years:

The system uses cameras and radar to observe the road and traffic ahead. The data is analyzed to map elevation, curves, gradient, and traffic conditions, and then shoved into an “artificial intelligent algorithm” which will help the transmission choose the appropriate gear before it is needed.

I don't think you read the last paragraph nor the corresponding links.

Does no one here fault the morality of the buyer?!? Jesus H - its like Tom is completely absolving the buyer of any fault, here. Nobody held a gun to the buyer’s head and said “sign here”. This speaks more to the “I deserve a new car” mentality of people than it does to the sales tactics of a car dealer. Dealers are…

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I have never seen a car on a hub dyno that wanted to flip over backwards so bad. That was wild.

The first fully charged pull does not matter that much I agree. The issue is that the 5th pull is over 6 seconds on the Tesla and still under 3 on the Porsche. This means that as you go about your day of driving your ability to merge, overtake and calculate distances is different while still being in the same car. I…

I’d rather throw money away trying to save lives rather than take them. 

Go ahead and try it. What’s the worst that can happen?  :-/

It’s one of the best-looking Ferrari replicas ever made, but really, you’re paying for the movie provenance.

Now this is a fake Ferrari.

I want to protect the guys that invented beer, wine, hooch, etc..., they have made surviving in this day and age possible. Trump could correctly describe the intricacies of quantum computing and still sound like a complete buffoon, add the usual word salad and random bizzare shit in and I need to numb my brain. I…

Can’t we just put these two geniuses in a cage and see who comes out? A really small cage. In the desert. With a square of mylar. And a filthy toilet and a burrito.