I’ll give this a NP - although the last generation of the Celica missed the mark for me on numerous fronts.

I have to nominate the 3rd generation Toyota Tercel: (the wobbly looking predecessor to the Echo, and it got repackaged as a “sporty hatchback” called a Paseo (which couldn’t pass itself, much less anything else).

Yes, Tesla _is_ at fault here. They are releasing a product that they _ADMIT_ doesn’t do what it should, and is not a replacement for human judgment, _AND_ they are naming it in a clearly misleading manner.

I’m going to nominate the AE86 Corolla GTS.

Self cancelling signals on bikes are at best going to be timer circuits. Unlike a car, most of the turn on a bike comes from the lean, and relatively small tweaks to the position of the handlebars. Much harder to figure out when the turn has ended.

There’s a factual error in the story:

It’s an old Fiat ... so we all know that these are fussy cars to keep in good shape. (Then again, I don’t see that as much different than the contemporary Triumphs TBH - both had their fair share of hiccups and weird behaviours.

I imagine a few agencies beyond that will be interested in that data ... but yeah - the DoJ and others are going to have a grand time going through that information. 

Well - now that his phone records are part of the public record, I imagine Mr. Jones’ life just got a whole lot more complicated.

Would you pay $8K for a Chevy Sprint from this era? I wouldn’t, and the Sprint was a car I actually owned.

“It has a cop engine” ...

You can develop AV 5 without selling people lower levels as if it is AV 5, or using those people to debug your software.

Unless it starts identifying a risk somewhere around 30s beforehand, it’s likely already too late. Human attention / focus typically takes seconds to switch back to the task at hand, assess the situation, and start to react to it. 

This one gets into an aspect of human behaviour called “attention”, and as I have argued several times here, Autopilot’s design gets it completely wrong.

So Autopilot disengages itself 1 second prior to crash? Yet another example of Tesla’s software completely missing the mark when it comes to elementary human factors considerations.

It seems well sorted, doesn’t have any significant signs of having been thrashed ... and it’s legitimately a funky little car that few people know much about.

Mine will always by my 1990 Civic Si.

$12K for a car that marks the end of the peak malaise era?  No thanks.

At $1500, this is either a starting point for a major project (money pit), or it’s a parts donor for your current 924. 

The Pinto: It’s a base wagon, and the owner _borrowed_ the grill for the photos? No. Just No.