Considering Aston is effectively looking to buy Chinese IP/pay them to develop the tech for them, it’s kind of a non-issue.

Psh. Everyone knows that the technology for making clear stuff go on vehicles is always at least ten years off, like cold fusion and flying cars.

This is the internet. A percentage of people must hate a Thing beyond reason based purely on the fact that another percentage loves that Thing with equal lack of reason.

I drive the car from the passenger seat with ease

It seems like an automatic mobile to me.

ZE BRAKES ARE OPERATING WITHIN ZEIR SPECIFIED PARAMETERS

BRAKING PERFORMANCE HAZ NOT BEEN COMPROMIZED

My bet is on Smart. Eventually some MBA at the Tiny Car Company will figure out that there’s a whitespace in Big Cars that they’re not competing in. It’s like business entropy.

Quick, activate the Reddy Signal

Embarrassing story time.

Others have pretty much covered the main points, but another thing worth mentioning is that for those not in the immediate blast zone, even taking shelter in an office building or store might save their life, instead of being caught in the open.

I have alerted the authorities

I think you’re violently agreeing with me, dudebrah. The Boring Company “Flamethrower” is, in fact, a run of the mill blowtorch.

said they were based on them

The point is so far over you’re head it landed in the next city

In college I knew a guy with a ‘92. He or a previous owner had replaced the mirrors with some under-handlebar version, and then painted the whole thing matte black and olive drab. Made it look like a Sherman tank or something. I swear to god it is the only personal vehicle I’ve ever seen that truly got cooler every…

This is...baffling to me. Why in the world would they continue to double down on this thing for over a decade? The methods they used are shitty and shady beyond belief, but the logic is completely lost on me.

You gotta want it

We did our damn chores after that thing showed up I’ll tell you that

It’s a blowtorch with a buttstock. My mother literally used to use a scarier gizmo for yard work. Everybody settle down.