She wanted to smoke and drink and did. That it was “self medication” is a bullshit excuse for it being in her system while pregnant.

We can stop blaming Tesla when Elon Musk stops making misleading claims about the status and progress of “Autopilot”.  The glaring difference between Musk’s claims and the letters they submit to regulators are a fine reason to keep a spotlight on them.

You can get a Tesla without the self driving. It’s an option.

You want to use something like autopilot you should have to have a camera on you. Sorry but people show they are too stupid and selfish for good things.

It doesn’t say one way or the other in the ad, but maybe this one was owned by John Voight?

Thing is those are not small differences. Having radar is an entirely different technology to cameras that can act as a backup. Cameras can get blocked by snow/rain/bugs/etc. and are subject to glare. Radar is immune to most of those things. It’s also notoriously difficult to get accurate depth measurements using just…

this is nothing but an excuse to keep bumping the timeline out. 

A base model 7 series is 86k, 103k for a 750i, all the way up to 157k for an M760. The base S class is 110k. A Tesla Model S starts at $69420, all the way up to a loaded up Plaid+ for 157k. All of those cars sell fairly well. I don’t think the price is unreasonable.

This is my 2011 S40 R-design. I picked it up in 2018 - it had 58K miles and had been garaged its whole life, and the $11,000 I paid was the absolute ceiling for these (and more than fair considering how impossibly rare these cars are in SoCal). So No Dice on this one.

Chip shortage + manual transmission = high asking price. Even without the current supply issues, there remain a small percentage of people out there who absolutely refuse to drive anything that has an automatic. If you can find a small car with a manual, it’s the base model, but this one has options. From the looks of…

Once I changed the clutch disc on a ‘67 SAAB 96 Monte Carlo. I took it apart, swapped out the clutch disc, and reassembled the car. I even replaced the coolant while the hood was off because it was easier to get to the radiator.  As I was lifting up the hood to reattach it to the body, I saw a circlip lying on the…

I once tore apart the entire dash on my CJ7 trying to find a broken wire. It turns out the glass fuse had a broken end. So the fuse looked good, but didn’t actually conduct electricity.

Spark plug change on my wife’s 2015 Chrysler Town & Country. Access to the rear plugs requires removal of the upper intake. No problem. Got some shop towels, plugged the intake runners to keep from dropping anything inside the motor, and go to the plugs.

I farmed out the rebuild of my Buick 455 to a local engine guy, who farmed it out to a guy who specialized in Buicks the next county over, who farmed out the machining the heads to his brother-in-law’s shop, who took them to a shop in SC because his machine was down, but his driver lost the receipt....

I replaced the ignition switch, solenoid, optima red top, and starter on my jeep before I remembered the battery cutoff switch under the dash was in the “OFF” position.

in 1995, driving a 1984 Saab 900 on I-90 east of Cleveland in a heavy lake effect storm. Car up and dies. After an adventure that incudes walking a mile in a blizzard on an interstate, spend the night trying to diagnose it in the parking lot of a dive motel. Finally give up, rent a U-haul and a trailer the next…

A religion is just a cult that outlasted the other cults. 

I’m always blown away by the size of these ships anchored in the SF Bay. On the left side of this picture is an absolutely enormous ship, almost as big as Alcatraz island on the right side.

YO! We heard you likes bridges so we built a bridge... on top of your bridge!

“Just having a stickshift and clutch alone doesn’t automatically make a car more engaging”