Stay safe, I’m glad to see you were mostly prepared. At least one side of the border is taking things seriously.
 
Since you have nothing but time on your hands I fully expect a personalized response to every post in this thread, plus 15,000 - 20,000 word articles three times a day between now and the 8th, thanks!

An employee of mine (a simple guy, very honest but not all there) purchased a 2016 Mustang Ecoboost from the local Ford dealer. No way he could afford the car, let alone the insurance on it- he is making something like $14 an hour. Not to talk down to his income, but that’s a poor financial choice. He was pushed…

Hyundai’s exposing the raw truth that its owners don’t wash their hair as often as they should. Dirty cheap hippies.

Has this been added to the Telluride vs Palisade comparison lists?

Has Hyundai tried explaining to the owners “whoever smelt it, dealt it?”

He needs to fly over there and meet them in person.

So what you’re saying is the vehicle doesn’t have the necessary hardware and software to safely operate in a semi-autonomously mode, yet Tesla still allows that feature (which is marketed as “Auto Pilot”) to still be used?

The tech doesn’t matter here because the system, even if it was the absolute latest, is still a level 2 semi-autonomous system and that simply does not work well with how people actually work. Vigilance tasks like this are not compatible with the need for split-second decision making. This isn’t just me saying this;…

You’re not going to really watch a movie in a human-driven car because you’d crash almost immediately. You HAVE to focus on the task of driving, or you go nowhere. In a car with L2 semi-autonomy, you can get so much further without paying attention, until it needs you to, then you’re very boned.

The mistake you’re making is assuming that an average Tesla in this particular situation wouldn’t make the same mistake, but the reality is that EVERY Tesla in this particular situation would have made exactly this mistake. Unless maybe for some reason they missed a software update.

Strict, but fair.

Weirdly, alcohol is not approved for use on public roadways, while “Autopilot” is.

People who do this should be then forced to drive the nearest still-running Chevette for sale in their area. They must not improve the car in any way ever, and are only permitted to replace mechanical and safety-related parts as they fail. That shall be their fate. 

That’s the kind of corruption I can abide.

Those Russian lunatics have provided a lot of material for David. He needs to fly over there and meet them in person.

Somewhere in America at least one redneck is currently pouring ATF into the fuel tank of their Ram because of this sentence.

Talk about a loyal friend. Right? Right? Eh?

True, but I could see how keeping a jug of cooking oil in the van to limp to the next gas station might be more pleasant than a can of diesel.

When *I* saw the headline I thought, “What is that Crazy David Tracy from Michigan doing to that poor Chrysler...”

...worthy of me writing up into a blog that will help me fill my quota so that I can go back to wrenching on my van.