Artificial Intelligence first identifies the parts of the film or shows where it may be hardest to hear the dialogue, particularly when action sequences and effects increase in volume or the musical backdrop potentially becomes too loud.

The idea is to allow those who don’t have fancy home theater setups that allow for isolated center channels to still have access to a boosted dialogue track.

The article says the 4 slots between the 2 and 3 in size, price and styling. The 4 should be the 3 and vice versa in that case.

Imaginatively called the Polestar 4, the new EV is described as a “performance SUV coupé” by Polestar. It sits in the middle of the range between the 2 and 3 in terms of size, price and even styling.

For side mirrors, I hate the idea of cameras, but for rear? Absolutely!

In an ideal world, the bar to earn a driver license would be a lot higher too. Think of this more like automatic emergency braking. Yes, a driver should be aware and able to brake on their own, but this automated backup helps mitigate the absolute worst outcome, in this case, being fully invisible at night.

I’d rather not have taillights on during the day. It makes brake lights stand out less.

Yeah, absolutely. Honestly that would be my preference, but small incremental steps seem to get more traction here.

We can see a car swerve, jerk its way from lane to lane, and intuitively understand this as aggressive behavior — we know what angry humans look like, how they act.

Q for the Car Designers: Why give a car such a long hood when there’s a) no engine and b) the Germans refuse to include storage in the frunk? Since there’s no motor (yet, but eventually there will probably be a small dive unit for an AWD one) why not move the cabin forward and get rid of the weird, disproportionate…

When ambient light conditions are lower, say, during dawn or dusk, DRLs reduce crash risk by 20.3 percent, which is a huge jump from the average reduction of 8.8 percent. Of course, that’s because DRLs come on automatically, radiating in place of the car’s headlights, which drivers may be less likely to remember…

Or at the very least, a second season of Tron: Legacy!

Through the study, Moran brought up a few possible solutions to the problem. Bloomberg says he brought up creating new parking facilities for officers or private-public partnerships with the NYPD and public parking garages. He also came up with a few long-term solutions which include residency requirements for…

Came to say the same thing - that console looks incredibly uncomfortably high, especially for an EV that has no transmission/doghouse to fit underneath.

Exactly the same with me. There’s a few odd exterior bits that I didn’t like but the outside and the driving experience was great, but dang did it look and feel like an Elantra inside with the terrible faux chrome plastic buttons. The Mercedes copycat circular air vents also felt super out of place.

Other drivers, unaware of the cars’ inhuman operation, tried in vain to get the crossovers to move. They flashed their headlights and tried to fit past the stopped Waymo vehicles, in a manner that sounds very West Coast. A New Yorker would have stood still and just laid on the horn for two, possibly three hours,…

NMS Passat basically languished with facelift after facelift up until last year, even after the rest of the world got an entirely new generation of Passat in 2015 based the MQB floorplan that North American buyers never knew.

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IIRC the CRZ engine mounts and engine bay will fit a K24, but with it under there, the car wouldn’t pass pedestrian crash testing.

I think the biggest failure of the CR-Z is that it was 700lb heavier than the Fit it was based on but with all of 12 more HP. In a dense city where you typically only need to accelerate from 10-25mph, that electric acceleration is fantastic, but on short onramps or the wide highways of most of the country, you’re…