As a product manager, I think he gave a perfectly adequate explanation. These are aimed at a target market, and required to hit various performance thresholds for those target consumers. If their target consumer is not going to be flooring it for 15 minutes in deep sand, then why put all the expense in to ensuring…

As a mechanical engineer, I hope you also realize there’s a budget. They made the product as good as possible, given the amount of money they could spend. If they made it better, it would have cost more, and people would have balked at the price. So, to meet a price target, they’ve got to make compromises. And…

I doubt you are an engineer at all with that comment.

Engineers meet requirements...which are ultimately driven by cost factors. If you “make the product as good as possible” that’s “gold plating” and you will likely just end up with an extremely expensive part/system that goes far beyond the scope of the project.

The…

Specifically and GLEEFULLY

Which he specifically admitted in the comments. 

The fact that Rivian isn’t brought up at all while all signs point to it being the first luxury fully electric pickup from a startup to (hopefully) hit the market exposes this article for what it is. Another opportunity for Torch to take a swipe at Tesla to collect those sweet sweet Tesla clicks.

This dude needs to get some help

ngl sounds like your brother could have ended up buying a 16 grand 2012 civic from a dealership.

I have to concur. It sounds like it’s his first time out of the house and can barely function in society. And is already so conditioned by covid. What a shame.

I didn’t take as tone deaf so much as a gentle plea for help.  Dude needs a therapist, clearly.

I had the same takeaway. I mean, you drove on the interstate through the midwest, this isn’t the Highway of Death through Baghdad. I live in Kansas and everyone wears masks. Hell, you get bad looks if you DON’T wear masks around here. Sure, out in the sticks there are more people that put up a fight to mask wearing.…

Yup. Some people really, really want to claim the mantle of victimhood. I guess that “I drove across the country, and nothing happened” isn’t clickbaity enough for Jalopnik.

This was a weird article and I think it was pretty tone deaf. Unless he’s omitting something, he was never in any real danger. It felt like kind of a slap in the face as someone who might *actually* be a victim of a hate crime - a relatively flamboyant black city boy. What are his concerns? That someone might think he…

Oh, a look.

I felt attacked from all sides — the bullying tractor-trailers on the highway, the flatness, the cold, the constant anxiety about where it would be safe to piss.

Counterpoint: I’m a pinko commie New Yorker who gets an absolute kick out of driving cross-country in any occasion. Yes, people express some opinions I disagree with, but it’s one of the singular pleasures of living in this country to drive coast-to-coast, whether solo or with a buddy. Your mileage does vary based on…

hey Erik, I’m curious, if you were to walk in to a store with a mask on, did they give you shit for it? like make you take it off? was there hostility toward that? i ask because im considering riding my bicycle across the country later this year, and I will be masked when i walk in to places (im targeting 300+ miles a…

“I wonder what is the point of investing huge amounts in [technical] solutions which contribute little to the show?”

Perhaps you never understood that mentality because you embody it?