You can have any color you want as long as it’s black.

So what you’re saying is that market trends are moving the auto industry into a Soviet era type manufacturing strategy? Produce one automobile and screw the comrades who don’t want it — they’ll take it anyway?

Lincoln is looking pretty good nowadays though. Can’t really say the same about Caddy.

Only 5% of buyers want wagons - kill the wagon

Likely very high. We’ll find out by the end of 2019.

Smart bet.. or SMART bet?

It’s an NEV.

Man, up the top speed to 35 and make it street legal, and I’d daily this thing in a heartbeat. 

Doesn’t look much different than NEVs or LSVs that are currently road legal in most states.

And that would have happened almost immediately, but very likely he’d have veered onto the shoulder, been honked at, rubbed a guard rail, or something to wake his ass up. I’ve been dumb and driven while tired but rumble strips or the terror of my eyes shutting has always jolted me awake and convinced me to pull over. 

He would have had to have done something to the car to defeat the steering-wheel torque sensors. This doesn’t happen by accident, by design.

I’m interested in the details behind the incident and conclusion. I feel like if he were in a “low tech” car without semi-autonomous features, he would have almost surely crashed or veered into another car.

Sure there is.  If he hadn’t defeated the safety features the car is supposed to fucking stop.

Everyone is ragging on this dude, but I kind of feel like he just accidentally fell asleep on a long, boring drive and didn’t die because the car was driving itself.

How do we know this guy didn’t have a heart attack or something? Is there a conclusion to this incident?

Wait you mean this weaseley loser?

Wow, I sympathize. I was my college’s mascot for a couple years. It’s hard to maneuver in those suits (big black scotty dog... Carnegie Mellon) but I wore cheerleading sneakers and had my soles exposed at least.

Mitsubishi had plenty of success in the Asia Pacific region, until Hellcats came along :P

For Sweden, the Mitsubishists spell it gopher and named a whole slew of vehicles PHEV.

Symbolism of Mitsubishi’s success in North America, perhaps?