Yeah, dedicated lanes probably makes the most sense, at least for highway driving if nothing else. Though the chance of every state getting together to do that seems slim. I guess maybe all major interstates could have it, but even then it feels like it would never happen.

True, that is a pretty major shift.  Though then it gets into a big fight between the infrastructure people and the manufacturers if I had to guess.

The issue pretty much boils down to the environment from my perspective. There is plenty of autonomous equipment out there running today that isn’t cars. Ports for instances are quite automated. Huge industrial equipment that could easily hurt people or do some serious damage. The difference is they are in controlled…

It does seem to be one extreme or the other with people. I’ve heard stories of people driving them once, getting terrified, then parking them and selling them immediately after. Others get “bitten” and go whole hog on them.  My mom has wanted one since they came out and finally got hers a few years before me.  She’s…

Bingo, I was thinking the same thing for selling it. I never buy cars to sell them (or care about resale value might be a better term), but I don’t think you’d do bad to get one and only plan to have it for a while. Pretty sure they aren’t going to drop much further, especially with no more new ones on the horizon.

I think Nissan had a twin plug engine in a truck, but I don’t remember what it’s valve layout was.  The 3G Hemi is a two valve twin plug setup, though not overhead cam if that’s part of the qualification.

Sounds like a sweet ride.  My grandmother has always wanted a Packard.  Most of my cars are pretty basic and analog, some because they are old and some by choice.  Have a 71 Vette and a 67 Dart (albeit the Dart has a modern 5.7 Hemi and a fun secondary digital dash display I made).  The other is an 04 Viper, so even…

I’ve still got them in a box somewhere I’m pretty sure.  Had a fair number of the action figures with the motorcycle and plane.

With enough practice and dedication to Peach, you can exploit all her strong traits and cover her weak spots.

Maybe it’s really just Bowsette in disguise and that’s why she’s so strong.

I wonder if it’s ever occurred to companies that we are at a point of information saturation that’s dangerous when it comes to driving.  There is so much else to pay attention to besides, you know, actually driving nowadays.  Maybe that’s part of the problem with vehicle accidents.  I’ve realized I have a harder time…

I still have the original NES game. That was one of my jams back in the day as well as a Ratcatcher motorcycle toy and the Thunderquack plane.  Still probably one of my favorite cartoons and my mother’s as well.  She even went as far as to make capes and masks for my brother and I when we were kids.  Purple outside…

So is it possible that the Chinese market has just saturated after years of growth? I mean, it’s like a brand new video game that just released. Everyone runs out to buy it on day one and more people buy it as reviews roll in and whatnot. Then you get some people buying it as it hits the used market, etc. Eventually…

Overall I agree with pretty much everything on the list aside from the BMW.  For whatever reason I am just completely apathetic toward them, maybe because of the reputation they have because of their typical owners.  I think the 2002 is almost the worst about it too because it was their genesis car and they’ll wax…

That makes a little more sense.  Just seems like a lot of effort to patent something when you wouldn’t really be doing anything with it.  Seems more like a gamble that you might catch a competitor doing something similar and call them out on it, but just seems bizarre they would sink money into that with all the cost…

I can’t be the only one thinking driving sim rig, right?

Wait a minute, this thing is FWD with tandem dummy axles?  That seems...odd.  Wouldn’t think you’d have that much weight on the front axle if it takes two in the back to carry the rest.

Yeah, I never understood the distaste it seemed to get.  A new “analog” sports car will come out and people will sing its praises for weeks saying it’s a return to motoring as it should be, then I’ll point out that the Viper had been doing that for 25 years already and people ignore it.  It’s reputation for being a…

I suppose, just seems odd.  The lattice structure thing doesn’t really hold water for me because that’s just design optimization, not really a new and different idea.  In all likelihood it was just prohibitivly expensive to produce in the past because manufacturing methods weren’t there to do it effectively.  Like,…

Honestly, the Vette is the better car for the money because as strange as it sounds, it’s practical as far as sports cars go. My parents had a 99 and that thing was amazing in what you could do with that. That being said, to me, there is not comparison in the driving experience. The performance might be on par in well…