There’s a brief shot of the valve head, and it looks like there’s no valves in one of the cylinders ... my guess is that this hasn’t been a working piston for a very long time.

My first thought: Did the CEO get his bonus? If the answer is yes, then the workers have every right to be absolutely pissed. (I certainly would be)

Isuzu was notoriously flakey, so if this wasn’t the Trooper (which actually seemed to be fairly reliable), I’d be hard CP on it. However, Troopers were remarkably popular here in their heyday, and there are few left around in reasonable shape. (Certainly, comparable to contemporary Toyota SUV models of the day)

Wow ... the lumbar roll in those seats looks uncomfortable!

1st Gear: This will not end well for Tesla. Musk’s personal background doesn’t make him more suited to managing the creation of a mass production line ... in fact I would go so far as to argue it will be detrimental in the long run.

Mine will always be the Triumph TR 250 I spotted on a lot for about $2500 (it was the 80s - and I didn’t have a lot of money at the time)

Granted I doubt much of anything would have avoided this crash all together

NP. Still one of the nicest looking cars to come out of Porsche in a long time.

Not to mention that particular series actually looked like it meant something. (It’s not my favourite Z-car, but it was a huge improvement on the predecessor)

In the mid-90s I owned one of these.

The point is that the driver does not have an active task in adjusting the vehicle’s course, or other settings unless the automation starts to lose context. That’s a recipe for “wandering attention”. Just watching the road is not a task which maintains focus.

Basic point about human psychology: if we don’t have regular, continuous tasks to do, we’re really terrible about maintaining attention on a task.

1st Gear: Although the accident itself was predictable - it was going to happen sooner or later, no matter what additional precautions were taken - this particular response really makes me wonder if Uber’s allies had an inkling that there were problems and were just waiting for the right time to say it.

By that point in time, the vehicle would have been well past its expected useful life. I can’t quite remember when they stopped selling those in Canada - I want to say sometime in the early 90s, but that could just have been locally.

For me it has underscored Musk’s weakness as a leader:

Hah!

I’m not sure that’s actually a 1986 model. That was the year that centre-mounted brake lights became mandatory equipment in Canada, and I don’t see a cyclops light in the rear angle shot.

3rd Gear: Tesla Downgrade

Just because it is a Fox platform vehicle doesn’t make it desirable, IMO.

Uber has shown itself to suffer from the worst excesses of late-stage capitalism - and that has created a serious image problem for them.