Since she’s talking about public roads, definitely not that second thing. If you’re anywhere close to the limit on a public road you screwed up pretty bigly.

Hot take (?): I think the standard Kona is a decent looking car.  I’ll be curious to see what an N variant looks like.

What actual fucking difference does it make? I hope she names names, the magazine and the people who agreed to it on her behaf, because those bastards need to burn in the light of day. Absolutely disgusting.

Yeah, I get the feeling there may have been some “Do it honey, you’ll be the face of women’s sports and that means bigger paychecks!” type influence. We may never really know, but it really does show how fucked we are as a society still that something like this can still happen.

Meanwhile I’m wondering whether any sponsor pressures were exerted on Danica that she felt uncomfortable with, but did anyway. Ultimately, if she was comfortable doing those GoDaddy ads and whatnot, that’s her decision, but if she was pressured into it by the team or the sponsors or whatever, that sucks. 

Wow, that is incredibly disgusting. You’d think at some point someone would have said “Hey, we got the funding, you just have to pose nude” before making her drop all her sponsors and funding. Just insane what men think they can get away with.

Bill Clinton didn’t campaign on “draining the swamp”.

Motherfucker, PLEASE. The book isn’t anti-autonomous cars at all. I fucking WISH writing anti-Tesla articles made one tiny bit of difference on book sales. It doesn’t. And I’m not anti-Tesla. But if this is your reaction to this story, perhaps you should seek out your clergyperson or a trusted relative. Maybe a…

I’m a happy Tesla owner and my car hasn’t had any issues in 10k miles of ownership. However. If this happens to me, any “brand loyalty” goes out the window. If you wanna make your car dependent on a single screen for basically every function including the speedometer, you better fucking make sure that screen works.

In this example you are confusing buying a future product, by judging today’s capabilities. I have bought Full Self Driving, to be released later. When it is fully capable, the price will be higher. Because I invested early in the technology, I get it at a cheaper price.

“Full Self-Driving” and “pay extra attention to the road” and “do not become complacent” are all there in that first paragraph on the screen and they are statements in conflict with one another. You shouldn’t be able to call something full self-driving if you immediately have to say to pay extra attention to the road…

I think their videos are fine and mostly unobjectionable, and so I generally agree with much of what you say.  But I don’t think you can turn videos of your kid playing with toys into a content machine that generates $25.5 million in revenue without a “ruthless sense of opportunism.”

This for me:

I’m so glad to finally hear someone say this out loud! I always felt like I wasn’t really a car guy because a) I don’t care for car shows, and 2) I’ve never owned an Alfa.

He clearly didn’t follow load strapping 101:

And presenting nothing to do outside the heist is antithetical to the open joy of a GTA game, regardless of what fans were hyping themselves up for. 

You’re missing the point. People are disappointed because they wanted somewhere new to play around and this is a new location they won’t get to play around in. Whether or not there was hype is beside the point. If Rockstar had somehow manage to keep this under wraps and surprised everyone with it, people would have…

Sweet, sweet, microtransactions