In these scenarios they pretty much were all about which pedestrian do you hit. Buthe one question I have is, won’t autonomous cars essentially be forced to obey the law at all times (before an emergency like this) so the car would presumably be slowing to stop for what should be a red light at the given ped…

My family is good friends with Andy, and my dad builds his engine. Mr. Sloe has always tried cheating his way to the podium and it has never worked. It was absolutely appulling when this happened. But yes, Andy always loves doing burnouts when he wins!

I have a 97 Olds. Cutlass Supreme and the gas gauge bobs around once you are at about 1/3 of a tank left (going uphill, downhill, braking, and accelerating all cause this). I’ve never run it down either, so it may just be an issue with older GM cars?

I thought at NAIAS that they were saying something about an 8 speed automatic for the Fusion lineup, but that didn’t happen. I may be remembering wrong though.

Crash avoidance should be a part of driver’s education. Similar to how you test ESC and autonomous braking or something.

I wholeheartedly agree with the STEM education thing. I want to go into the auto industry and I had to create my own STEM class in high school because our schools are so terrible about it. Thank goodness I had a teacher that agrees with me on that. Now I’m at U of M though, so that should work much better.

So what would happen if this truck had been in a normal car accident on an interstate? It seems like this way of transport was not very well thought out for safety...

I read an article, sorry no link, that said the Mustang actually does use the ammonium nitrate inflator from Takata still, but with the drying agent, whether that helps or not in the end.

Big rigs and similar vehicles probably should be limited to a certain speed for braking and handling reasons in an emergency. And if they’re limited, they need to stop trying to overtake each other on 2 lane highways, that’s where the congestion issue is. In Michigan, trucks are technically supposed to do 60mph on the…

Why did it only pop open and then suddenly swing open completely? Did it sense him walking by at first?

There is almost no way this person can get all the features he wants and have a car with clothing seats and simple controls or manual transmission nowadays. And if safety is important to him like he said, a Mazda5 may not be a great option. But really, a Ford Flex may come close to his criteria it seems.

The airports in Grand Rapids, and especially Lansing, Michigan are both really laid back too. You park right in front of the terminal, and you’re at your gate in 30 minutes or so. Detroit on the other hand is awful by comparison...

This is an interesting idea of luxury vs. mainstream. Lincoln isn’t exactly THE luxury brand right now though, but Ford (and others) is creeping into luxury territory with vehicles like the Fusion. You can get a Fusion Platinum with a leather trimmed seats, dash and doors, pre collision braking, smartphone app control…

How fitting, I begin my career at the University of Michigan Dearborn to study Mechanical Engineering this fall and I planned on going into automotive all along.

I don’t struggle with too much speed in my white 1997 Cutlass supreme 4 door with the 3.1L V6 and awful 4 speed automatic. But it sure does sound like it goes fast, and you don’t need to go fast to feel like you’re a race driver with so little grip. I imagine that sensation is what you are getting at here.

It looks like the driver of the Camry was approaching the intersection, rather than already waiting at it, so he probably couldn’t see the cop past the cars in the turning lanes seeing as he was already in motion, and the cop couldn’t see him for the same reason.

At least modern SUVs are genuinely safe vehicles. I mean, it looked like that Explorer’s roof held pretty stiffly, and if the curb weren’t there it wouldn’t have flipped it looked like too.

Sorry, I should’ve cleared that up more. I’ve seen similar pics on the Internet and it is always breaks in the same spot (that carbon fiber portion) on the body too. Thanks for clarifying though!

I know it is supposed to snap, with a carbon fiber structure it’s better to have it do that in a crash. But I don’t feel like that would/could happen at a relatively low 30MPH and probably slower after the initial impact with theMKS (if that was indeed the speed at impact).

Just don’t want to “assume” anything, but yeah, I thought the same thing.