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Isn’t 2016 too new to be considered solidly in the used market? At 3 years I have very little problem getting dealerships to get me out the door at or just under the listed price (CA here, taxes and fees are pretty steep).

This, what is up with that brake setup.

You would be surprised at the garbage that CA lets roll down the streets. Its regressive to force people to have safety inspections...

I would love to hear more on the readiness level from each manufacturer. People need to realize that Uber is running their own software. GM their own. Google their own. Its not the same level of capability across the board. While Google is near the top in terms of current self driving cars, the rush to market and the

It hasn’t been a thing here for 15+ years. Inside of 20 years or so people had to ask for it specifically and we kept a crappy machine in the back for it.

I got out of the tire business about 15 years ago and it was already fading from upstanding tire companies.

As a former employee of Discount Tire (America’s Tire here in CA) we stopped the practice quite a while ago. There were some people who insisted they wanted it but we rarely sold any as no one actually wanted to run the machine. Near as I can tell, siping made sense on older tire technology (probably 90s and back,

Geeze fanboys. Calm the hell down. You can’t scream about how no one wants it and then scream that we didn’t really want it despite manufacturers clearly trying to make it. And then show up in the comments and bash anyone who has it and happens to like it by claiming it should have a technology that doesn’t even exist

Unfortunately, I don’t think its back to the drawing board. I think its blatant ignorance of multiple people that allowed Uber (specifically, their software) on the streets. A quick look at how Google (or even Tesla) software handles a similar situation would show how pathetic Ubers is in comparison. Specifically now

I think you are missing part of the point. Is Uber at fault? Who knows. Honestly, they probably aren’t (as much as I can’t stand that they were allowed to drive these things around) because the pedestrian could be at fault.

No braking at all. Thats the crux of the issue. The moment movement was detected heading toward the street it should have been on its brakes or swerving. Instead apparently it did nothing.

This. Everyone wants to blame the victim and exonerate the software. It never should be that way even if the lady tried to purposefully get hit by the car. Advanced (google/tesla) self driving software sees everything around it and prepares for anything. The moment movement toward the street happened the car should

I’m amazed at the flak you get for this comment. Should she have stepped in front of a car? Of course not, and who knows if she was doing something purposeful. The point being that the system should have seen her, made a value judgement and at least attempted to stop. The computer should have made that call far faster

according to a preliminary investigation, the vehicle was traveling at approximately 40 MPH and does not appear to have attempted to stop before hitting the pedestrian.

The owners are worse than the Corvette guys. A quick search shows the cheapest one at $3k in my area going all the way up to $23k. I dont think I would pay more than about $500 for a runner.

I would. But that doesn’t mean its a good idea. I just think XLRs are awesome.

This is amazing. People are actually proud of their Allante’s.

I was thinking a cheaper NSX. The current R8 competes with it price wise but if it was say $110-120k it would probably become the budget supercar.