I appreciate you clearing this up, but I am a little disappointed you did not drum up engagement by implying one or more pieces of David Tracy had succumbed to rust. You could even set up for a famous Jalopnik slideshow by having us guess which mechanical limbs/organs failed or which ones were still organic.

Unrealistic: brakes. You can get going for free, but stopping will cost you.

You are absolutely right. Sorry, I was just trying to continue the explanation of how the liability works out. Yeah, you never get the money, just a court order explaining that the person who will never afford to repay you owed you money. But as far as assigning liability, the responsibility just gets passed along to…

Rory tells us you are gone. Care to elaborate? I know you mentioned that your Audi trip was likely your last, but I think we’d all like to hear the news straight from the source if you are moving on.

Rory, I know you are probably getting the most pageviews ever by keeping us in the dark, but this is just cruel. I can’t appreciate the taillight article until I know the truth about Torch.

This week I’m going on one (likely) last press trip, with Audi to...

They’ll easily win the suit and never be able to collect. It’s not a good system, but it is how it works, unfortunately.

It’s not that fault completely rests upon owner. It simply falls to the owner to collect from the actual at-fault person. In your case, Hertz owned it, went after you for driving it, and you went to the insurance of the actual at-fault individual. This owner could easily get a court to rule the thief must pay him…

I tend to put these subscriptions into a couple of boxes:

Between things like this and the electric clones of other cars, China really has a handle on getting people to go electric.

Yeah, if I am liable for damages caused by my stolen car, I would far prefer my car get away cleanly. The loss of the car vs so much more is an easy call. Beyond the liability, I really don’t want anyone to die because police were trying to recover my property, regardless of legal implications.

Sounds like he likely wanted as good an insurance deal as he could get with the new car on the policy and didn’t realize/care that he no longer had comprehensive until there was a problem. The liability coverage should still cover the damage to other vehicles/property, I would think, but it may not have been enough.…

Beyond that, the owner/insurance can sue the thief. This is also how it goes when you are hit by an uninsured driver—your uninsured motorist coverage will kick in and the insurance company will sue the driver to recover the money. If you have to pay out of pocket beyond your coverage, you can also sue or potentially…

Remember that things that appear difficult for a human can be trivial for a computer and vice-versa. Following a road through some curves might mean precision driving to the human who needs to keep turning the wheel, but the computer that needs to stay between the lines will do so quite easily.

That and advertising MSRP until you contact them or show up. It’s not hard to either indicate a markup or not advertise a price.

Arguably not a car movie, but Gran Torino is a bad car movie. If I watch a movie named for a car, I really expect a lot more action involving that car.

No video, huh? Hard to imagine a place like that not having a bunch of cameras. I wonder if there was someone in the know about camera outages and/or locations.

70 million would maybe get you the seats if the 8 model years got all of it. HALF of that small investment is for the next 8 years. The other half? When they get around to it.

I can’t argue that Musk isn’t influential. Just say something negative about him to see defenders and pilers-on alike come out of the woodwork. Or look at Dogecoin’ value being almost entirely based on what Musk says. Or stupid steering yokes becoming trendy. But it does seem strange to disclose investments in the…

That name again is Mr. Plow!