Does anyone else absolutely cringe at the number of people who are recording shitty cellphone video of the Mustang ‘drifting’ at the top?

Phones don’t do fall detection, and crash detection almost certainly requires you to be in a moving vehicle. I’m 99.9% sure you could drop or throw a phone while standing / walking / running and it’ll be fine. The problem here is that he dropped his phone (sudden acceleration and bang noise) while going at a…

Fall detection and crash detection are not the same thing. I’ve triggered fall detection on my watch twice. Once after slipping on narrow wooden stairs (I felt that for a few days afterwards) and ones again by some weird accident of waving my arms around (no fall). Fall detection gives you a long countdown to disable…

I’ve heard some rumors about insurance claims getting very complicated when using Turo.

I guess it is dependent on a person’s height and the distance from the door frame to the seat.
I’d expect that having a car seat height that minimizes the amount of ‘lifting’ your legs need to do to get in and out of the car would be ideal for an older person whose muscles will be not as responsive.

This is one case where the added ride height of a CUV is 100% important. It can be hard sitting down and getting up from a corolla-height car when you’re in your 80's.

Yes, but why *wouldn’t* Nissan drag one of their most famous performance brand names through the dirt to make a few extra bucks selling a fancy decal package for an mediocre car? This is exactly how I expect them to operate . (But maybe this is changing finally.)

3rd gear: as usual, China is 100% hypocritical complaining about any auto regulations given their <50% ownership restriction on auto companies operating in China.

Americans are programmed to only care about what happens to their net worth and profit next quarter. Manifest Destiny tells us that the American Dream will take care of itself for the future.

I haven’t read about recently, but I thought that producing hydrogen would require way more than a parking lot covered in solar panels — proposals I’ve seen involve dedicating entire nuclear power plants to the job. I’d guess that it would obscenely expensive to build a relatively small hydrogen production /…

Nissan totally missed the boat here. Should have followed Chrysler/Dodge and made a Skyline Edition limited to 2000 units with a special paint color.

Even more likely:  monthly subscription.

I think ‘expected to survive’ is a very generous assessment when the title should probably be:

Round trip NYC to Boston = ~430 miles. This leaves 70 miles of city driving.

And then what:  lithium gets way more expensive since we have to figure out how to reclaim it.  Anyway in 70 years most of us will be dead and we don’t care about future generations problems, right?

No car company wants to sell a small pickup for (less than) a few $1000's profit when they can larger pickup for >$10K profit. Until sales on the F150 and Ranger start dropping due to the economy, they’ll keep up the “Real Americans Drive Raptors” advertising and keep Maverick production volumes low.

Find a better name:

You need to be able to see a motorcycle coming from behind at +20mph in the left lane while merging, too. This job is usually done with a radar, not a 1280x960 camera looking into close to 90 degrees FOV. The front cameras, of course, have a much narrower FOV so you have enough space to decelerate if you see someone…

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Lithium will likely be replaced with a different element. Some people say there’s only ~70 years of mineable lithium available...