Hey I remember that article! Because of that article I was initially pretty annoyed when USAA’s buying service shifted from in-house to “powered by truecar” - do you know if different companies have different negotiated rates for their “powered by truecar” systems? I’ve done a search/quote on the USAA one, and I’ve…

Historically I have used a car buying service - these days usually the one from USAA (which is powered by TrueCar I think, but the prices are usually a lot lower than the ones the normal truecar website spits out for some reason - maybe extra negotiated discounts for veterans?). What are your thoughts on such car…

What about stomping the gas pedal twice for turbo boost and flames?

There are a bajillion Karma test vehicles around my place in OC but I haven’t seen one of these yet. 

I’m too long-of-torso to drive a morgan or seven (replica) safely/comfortably... but man would I drive the heck out of either of them. Impractical, sure, but when I was riding motorcycles I was a “350 day a year” rider. Raining outside? Wear a rainsuit and helmet - boom, solved.

Now I need to time travel back and warn myself about that red light runner in the new “terminator - exercise better judgement day”

I just figured it was because I was the polar opposite of profiling. Well over 6 feet tall, blond, blue eyed, etc. I kinda assumed I was being used to “even the scales”. The only time its really bad is when the some metal screws in my terminator skeleton set off metal detectors.

I feel like you could pull off a neat pixel-art version of the view ahead with some fiber optic cables or something - would be a neat project!

I don’t think any focus buyers that got the DCT’s are looking to buy another focus :P

I don’t mind the idea of AV’s for commuting in the city and so on, but if I am required to use an AV I don’t want to have to buy one. If I buy a car, I want to be able to drive it, no matter how vanilla our electric future is.

To each their own - it’s not really my thing but if it makes people happy great. I *do* kinda get tired of rolling road obstructions that make it impossible to see the road ahead, etc. I’ve seen too many people get into accidents because a smaller car is following an SUV and the suv changes lanes because traffic in…

I’d support jacking up the penalties severely.

We’ve come a long way from tucking your cellphone, on speaker, into the visor above your head. I do not missing hitting the gas at a green light and having the phone fall and hit me in the nuts. 

I mean... if the threats and berating were due to Synapse I could see it, but this dude sound like a poo.

Single occupant prius plug-ins, box trucks, and buses are the bane of the HOV lane.

A lot of it depends on the frequencies involved, and the architecture. Around me, a lot of us have a driveway “tunnel” that goes down to the bottom level parking of our houses. The driveway tunnel works like a megaphone, so my neighbors with their straight piped cars piss off everyone on the block, even though the…

The triangletruck really just looks like it was designed that way to:

Freakin fiskers with the “development vehicle” stickers on them are all over the place around me. I still love the looks, have since the first ones, but the people driving them never seem especially jazzed... like dude, you’re driving a sweet karma and you’re at dunkin’, try to smile a bit.

While I don’t really like the design of the triangletruck, my first thoughts were “that looks quick to manufacture” and “easy to repair, too”. I think they used the super tough and durable steel to mitigate some of the concerns voiced by traditional truck owners as to a tesla truck’s durability on jobsites. Sure,…