Conversely, AWD doesn’t automatically mean good in the snow. Particularly when it’s on a super car with fat summer tires and two inches of ground clearance.

A 7 liter LS7 weighs 450 lb, approximately the same as a 3.4L NA Porsche flat 6. Comparing to any turbocharged engine would be even sillier.

That probably depends substantially on the amount of snow. Ground clearance is a winning point for pickups vs CUVs.

This reminds me of the time when I was driving I-70 during a snowstorm and 2 pickup trucks went roaring past me... and within 2 or three miles I saw both of them spinning separately off the highway in (thankfully) single vehicle accidents. I laughed and laughed.

That RWD is bad in the snow.

A/C is still somewhat true... but it depends on certain conditions, like your speed and if your windows are down, again, at a certain speeds even older cars get better MPGs with windows up and A/C on vs. no A/C and windows down. It also depends on the outside temperature, but overall it’s not as big of a difference as…

-Premium gas providing any benefit in engines not designed for it.

Keeping your A/C off will noticeably increase your gas mileage.  Maybe that was true 30 years ago, but not so much today.  Similar to how manuals offer better gas mileage than automatics.  Not so much today.  

I’d be interested in knowing what the “serious damage” is. I’ve yet to have problems with cheap cables, but then I’m a sample of one. I did have a Belkin charging stand give out after years of service, but that’s somewhat expected.

I ordered these “MFi Certified” cables for my iPhone in June (thanks to Kinja Deals) and they are already failing. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RHP56BF/

If your margins are so razor thin that you need to pass a 3% fee onto a subsection of your consumers, you probably should be focusing on improving other aspects of the business. Anyone who starts a business knows that these fees exist, so it should be built into the business plan and the price of the food and drinks ju…

I agree with you (to an extent) I say better safe then sorry. especially since our bodies are not very well restrained in the lateral direction by seat belts and also due to the close proximity of the side window compared to everything else in a car. But, why is the side curtain on the passenger side going off without…

The fuck outta here. That is WAY too sensitive. It may have functioned as designed but that’s a shitty design.

If anything it deployed WAY too early. I can see scenarios where a car hits a pothole sideways, airbags deploy, and THEN the car smashes into a pole. That’s where the airbags should be deploying. That…

“guaranteed on-time delivery”

Would your rather people be unemployed or fucking injured/dead? The first priority is saving people’s lives. That’s what autonomous tech will do. And SaveTheClassics has a good point.

They won’t lose their jobs, they’ll still need to be in the truck for certain things for many years to come. They’ll just be a passenger primarily for the trips.

I must respectfully disagree. I live off an interstate near a large fed ex distribution center. These guys drive like maniacs.