David is peak Jalopnik.

I don’t get it

ironic, considering the typos and dropped words in a lot of articles...

I got a lot of use out of the harbor freight jump pack / air compressor combo, and it’s a great value if you’re used to the harbor freight way of life. It’s super heavy (not quite car battery heavy, but up there) but has a nice handle. It held its charge pretty well, but not as well as these newer small units, and I…

Wow.

aw dammit, the comanche is gone already

One must strive to just not give a fuck. People posting that are just sounding off and filling the thread with fluff with their witty and original insight that 4x4 suvs are allowed to be seen on the pavement.

Why are you turning a question about how tray bed size affects safety standards into a personal attack? I’m not in the market for any of these trucks

That, or they can charge more for performance vehicles to help finance the massive investments in EV manufacturing they’re having to make, especially when adoption is still low, meaning they can’t plan to sell large quantities of lower value cars yet.

I’m not sure I understand how tray bed size has anything to do with it?

Hmm. +1 for the source, thanks. It’s annoying how vaguely they’re speaking about safety. I think decreased rearward/blindspot visibility due to large C/D pillars and tiny rear windows is the biggest problem with visibility and safety in terms of not seeing dangers, and it’s hard for me to imagine a sightline that a…

That way of defining it makes sense to me - I think we’re trying to talk about the line between the metal at the bottom of the window, which is at shoulder height nowadays. The definition of beltline doesn’t really seem very well explained to me:

Not to try and control the way other people live their lives, but I tend to favor the idea that people spend less time looking at their phones while driving, and if they’re going to look at a screen, it be a boring one that’s restricted to the radio station and maps.

yeah I feel like the engineers at the OEMs would have the only meaningful answer because they’re running simulations, but would be incentivized to keep quiet for liability and marketing reasons. Crash testing can only be done so many times and the scenarios demonstrated have to be limited because you can only crash so…

I struggle to imagine how a lower beltline is reducing safety, considering a side impact and rollover damage

Well shame on me for repeating something without looking it up, but I’m having a hard time finding evidence either way. Derek Jenkins’ quote on motortrend doesn’t really make sense to me. On the subject of shrinking greenhouses, he says “it’s a syling trend,” then immediately talks about larger A pillars and the like…

safety requirements don’t usually get relaxed, and glass isn’t great at absorbing and redirecting energy the way ductile metal is.

Hah goes to show that just because everyone is spending more time at home, it doesn’t mean we have more free time. They’re great projects either way

...as opposed to clear packing tape at home for 3 cents worth of tape?

Do Danny and his wife have a blog or YT channel?