muleheadjoe
DinoTheDinosaur
muleheadjoe

But yeah, maybe it will take longer till autonomous cars are able to go off roading or navigate tents at concerts, but those activities are not really relevant to that average commuter or the transportation of goods.

Though the self-driving thing will, hopefully, bring our insurance rates back to Earth.

I’ll add my two cents (although possibly worth less than that) ... I don’t care about the ‘legal’ aspects of the situation at all ... the McLaren driver is a complete douchebag for rolling the stop sign. Barring a fairly severe mechanical failure, nobody fucking “accidentally” rolls through a fucking stop sign at a

I expect fully autonomous to be available in or around 5 years

oof ... that’s a bad example to use if your premise is that Exponent is junk science ... since the Toyota “Unintended Acceleration” problem was itself a full-blown bogosity completely proven to be a non-issue by every real scientific analysis performed on the data as well as physical examination of every car claimed

Back in either ‘99 or ‘00, due to lordy knows what alignment of stars, I received from Chrysler Co, completely unasked for and unexpected, a mysterious promo card highlighting little details of an upcoming mystery car. It, shall we say, piqued my interest. Over the next year or so I kept getting little mailers

The first 10 or 15 seconds of that sound clip sounds EXACTLY like any and every 20+ year-old beater 4-banger with a rusted out exhaust. EXACTLY. Loud raspy buzzing followed by the gurgle choke cough of a 4-pot running on 3 cylinders, where at least 2 of them are leaking compression.

Are you saying he was too thin skinned to put up with us?

The one detail that I’m curious about is this: Does the Tesla system require the driver to keep or periodically place hands on the wheel? I know that most, if not all, the other major car manufacturers who offer radar guided cruise control + lane assist DO have sensors in the steering wheel and will set off an alarm

historically been seen as very white and very male. Go to your next Cars and Coffee meet up and just look around if you don’t believe me. You see young people at Cars and Coffee, but that’s about it.

Jeezus, you were like the 3rd or 4th person to reply to shpuker, but the first to point out the GLARING MATH ERROR ... this is a sad state we live in when the internetters are accepting someone’s “gotcha” for “bad math” when in fact the one doing the ‘gotcha’ i.e., shpuker, is the bonehead who can’t math straight.

Nice lawn jockey. Haven’t seen one of those used non-ironically (i.e.,placed in a manner indicating someone seems to think it’s a viable lawn ornament) in decades.

Regarding the lead photo ... why the aitch ee double toothpicks are those bikes on a trailer instead of in the bed?!?!? What kind of poseur trailers his dirtbikes behind an empty pickup?

I daily drive an ‘07 Element SC (stick, not auto) which I bought new in ‘06. Maintenance (not repair which is a different animal, see upstream conversations) in nearly 10 years has been all standard factory recommended services at scheduled intervals, all 4 tires replaced twice. Not really sure if replacing the tires

I absolutely LOVE this part from Tesla’s reply ;-) ...

He said two more wheels, not “all four” ... ergo, we need a six wheeled six wheel drive Fusion.

I actually miss Default Car Face. Far and away better looking than most of today’s Hondas, Toyotas, and Nissans. Or Chevy’s. Or Dodges.

In defense of Jason ... the average height for an adult female in the United States is just under 5 foot 5 inches. That’s not particularly tall. But as Jason pointed out, Tracy (the nice lady in the ad) is only 5 feet tall, and that is positively tiny by just about anyone’s standard.

I get confused trying to differentiate between “SUV” and “crossover”

labor-saving robots will revolutionize the industry in the 21st century and free millions from the drudgery of menial service jobs.