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A slideshow? LOL

Definitely don’t want to be 1.5psi off

Been a while since I read on this, but I believe GM’s system is rather cool. It assumes that if you stop responding and it has to take over, there is a problem with you. 

WHOA. You’re officially writing for here now?!?! That’s AWESOME!!!

Indeed

There’s something seriously wrong with you, Manwich.

Is that before or after the Founders realized that a weak central government didn’t work and kicked out the Articles of Confederation for the Constitution? 

So you’re saying that it’s better at mitigating the biggest and most dangerous downfall of such systems, while everyone else seems to just ignore the basic biology that makes them unsafe? Cool.

Man, the Ciel. What could have been.

Where do I begin...

And the people who write about trucks really hate trucks. 

I would say instead that we need to be realistic about what corporations will do with those regulations, and probably not let them dictate what those regulations look like.

I’m mad that a lot of the people who write about cars for a living seem to not like cars.

1st Gear: Buyers will vastly prefer Autopilot because of the exact reason CR doesn’t. They can ignore the road without being yelled at. Yes, it’s a good idea for Supercruise to monitor the driver, and yes, it’s probably safer. But people will prefer a system that lets them defeat the nannies and fall asleep while…

I’m mad Toyota never made this.

Even the oven is horrified.

I’m still mad that Cadillac teased us with those beautiful concepts like the Ciel, Elmiraj, and even the Sixteen.

Holy fuck, is that hideous!

Or a simpler explanation :