To put it in the technical parlance, this is pretty fucking cool.

I agree. I also don't believe this person should be in jail. She did something very, very dumb. She will have shame, guilt, and probably emotional problems to deal with for the rest of her life because of it. She's going to suffer plenty, not that I feel particularly vengeful toward her or anything.

Flying domestic, I could give a crap which airline it is, to be honest. Anything less than 5 hours in the tin can is no big deal, as long as my legs can stretch out far enough and I don't constantly get hit in the knees by the person in front of me. I look at it this way: if I can handle a car ride that long without…

The fizzing is strong with this one.

Well, that sucks. Yet another reason to get AAA Premier (that's the top tier of AAA) - it provides $100 of home locksmith coverage per year (via reimbursement), and AAA dispatches the locksmith to your home. It's an independent of their choosing, but they obviously have to be legit, otherwise it's AAA's ass for…

So I get that better fuel economy is great and all, and that diesels are better for the trees and have more torque and are what all trucks should kind of have anyway because they should be trucks, not glorified vans for taking the kids to soccer, buuuuuuuuuuuuut.......

You did, and you used roaming minutes. Google Voice is only free to call if you're using a computer to make the calls. If you're using your phone, it is not and never has been a way to circumvent your minute plan of your cell provider, voice calls still go through your standard plan, not Google. You did roam, and you…

"And he hasn't given a reason."

I think that's more of a problem because they're an exotic OEM, and people tend to have this irrational requirement that everything exotic be bespoke. I think that's kind of silly, to be honest.

I dunno if I agree on the windshield wipe deal. What I love about my old Benz is that the engineers clearly only wanted the car to have 2 stalks: 1 for cruise control, 1 for everything else.

Google's current on-road test self-driving prototypes support driver handoff... it's the law. I think you might be conflating technical and practical issues inappropriately here. Google, like anyone else, does not know how to solve the practical, safety-oriented issues of driver handoff. The technical part isn't a…

The gen 1 MLs really are the worst Mercedes-Benz ever produced.

aw shit

It's a different list. Members only.

WHY IS THE MICROPHONE SO FLUFFY

They actually built the world's largest carbon fiber loom, so that's still pretty impressive. Don't know if it's still the biggest, though.

And you completely misread my post: it doesn't matter. The idea of accurately targeting internet ads for a $300,000 luxury car is laughable in the first place. Luxury brands target ads broadly specifically so average people see them. That's not to say they don't also target potential buyers more specifically, but…

Come on, that's a bullshit spin and they know it. Luxury brands rely on average people. If average people who can't afford these things don't know they exist, they can't envy them and aspire to own them, and the brand suffers. AKA exactly why Maybach went down the tubes again: the brand had no cachet.

They found out about matte paint.

Yeah, this thing looks terrible, like a bro'd out Bronco.