Whenever I hear about how AVs are going to change society for the better, the only thing I think about is morning rush hour.

yeah, this is really good info and what a good experiment. Its nice to see some quantifiable data (small sample size caveat!) on this shit. I think that our AV future is a: either not technically feasible in anything remotely medium term timeline and b: even if its technically workable stuff like this show that it…

“That 6K car could easily cost them another 6K over 3-4 years.”

“Mitya Sokolov” is a weird way to spell “David Tracy.”

I go by the 95% rule. 95% of my friends and family would be embarrassed to drive a car like mine. bonus - no one asks me for a ride

As I’ve been told- My grandfather’s side of the family ended up in America after his father was labeled a fugitive in Ireland for poaching rabbits on land that his family had hunted for generations. He ended up in stowing away on a ship, jumping into the water before hitting Ellis Island, and swimming to shore because…

Peter Egen is the GOAT

Exactly. You really want know how they work until you try them. I hate brake dust, and I ended up buying akebono low dust pads for my allroad. They worked great, but were expensive. I sold the allroad and now drive a f150 with big chrome tonsO’spoke rims, and Ford’s are known for dusty pads. These pads are ok, dust…

My favorite brake pad story: A couple friends and I joined another team for a 24 Hours of LeMons race at Sears Point - the car was a mostly stock E30 and of course the car wasnt ready when it arrived at the track. We put on a premium grade pad all the way around from a local chain that ends in “zone” on the car. At…

I had the original Car Discman and a tape adaptor. It’d skip if you hit the smallest bump, or bumped it yourself. And there was no burning of CDs when I was driving to high school. You got them at your local record store or from the “12 for a penny” mail-order spots, or, if you were as lucky as me, from the weird guy…

Still use one every day in my 2005 LS430.

They probably did it because its the easiest way to convert a car to electric and change as little as possible about the donor car. All you have to do is build an adapter plate between the transmission bell housing and the electric motor, then throw in all the controller/charger/wiring spaghetti under the hood with…

This car isn’t going into production, so EPA certification isn’t the reason.

I told him that our smoke detectors are mains powered and only use the battery for backup, that we use lithium batteries as a backup so that we should only have to change them once every several years, that the detectors beep for days when the battery gets low so that we know when to change them (Him: “Oh yeahhhh...…

Yeah, honestly I can’t get on the outrage train with this. $1k for a reproduction original tool kit straight from Jag isn’t that terrible (I mean, it’s extremely niche and directly from the manufacturer), and come on, this kind of thing is common in classic car realms.

Their editorial freedom was protected by their contract, and more subjectively by their success (read: lucrative site clicks) and journalistic integrity (stretch for a blog, but you catch my drift). One person was fired, the rest quit.

Anything faster than the super cars I grew up admiring in the 80s and 90s is pointless.

Yup. Always trust the Germans. That’s my motto. 

To be fair, an 8 mph difference in trap speed is not insignificant.