Still bad examples. Timing belts are maintenance items that you expect to maintain and replace and have multiple sources for. An engine with known crank bearing failure problems is a bad engine. People excuse fluke engine failures just like people would excuse this if it were a fluke. This is not that. This part will f…

Your ECU is an outlier. They normally cost thousands of dollars new. An ECU for my car is $1,600 new.

Never had an ECU fail and none of my cars have been newer than 10 years. Most have been closer to 15. ECUs are usually the hardiest parts of a car because they are solid state and sealed. If a car has a reputation for ECUs failing at 4ish years, it’s a garbage car. No one would put up with this in any other car,…

Yeah but I can go buy a tire from tirerack and be good to go. Where the fuck to I get this flashable chip and who do I get to solder it on the board? ECUs should be for the life of the car and the life of a $50k+ car should be longer than 4 years.

Is today opposite day?

That there is a baseless assertion. So yeah, you can say that I guess, but that’s all you’re doing.

The cars to get smaller so they can run on something other than a purpose-built F1 track. Cars are arguably too big for a lot of the tracks they already run and most places can’t afford to build ever larger and wider tracks like COTA. This is F1. They can make the cars whatever they want. They should make the cars fit…

Also the breathalyzer devices we currently use for offenders need to calibrated monthly. Need some big jumps in the technology before this is feasible.

Well yeah, that works if no one else drives on the road, but we live in a world where the roads are shared. I’m happy to rely on my abilities to drive safely and carefully while still having an airbag to catch my head if someone decides to turn left in front of me while I’m going through an intersection. Just drive…

I have a newer car and it breaks plenty on its own. I don’t need an older car that breaks even more.

Never said they wanted (read: intended) to murder me, but by their carelessness they risk it. They have prioritized their comfort over my safety and the safety of everyone else that drives a car. It’s a fact that more people should be aware of and, again, I don’t have to be nice about it. There are hard statistics…

Cool. I’ll go pass some laws on my lunch break.

But then there are also the laws of physics that say a higher frontal area is harder to push through the air and a heavier vehicle is harder to push up a hill. Accordingly, bigger vehicles will always require more energy with the same drivetrain in a smaller, lighter vehicle.

Maybe. But my comfort decisions aren’t 26%-150% more likely to kill a person in a normal car in an accident and furthering the race to taller and less stable vehicles, thereby making everyone less safe. I just have, like, a fluffier couch. I guess someone could get stuck in it if they have poor core strength.

Good point! We actually had the mazda MPV for a while that sounds exactly like what you described.

Sacrifices will have to be made.

Keep fighting the good fight, comrade!

But how am I supposed to lift my own body from 20" off the ground? I need everything in life to be the least amount of effort possible. Everyone should pay for my bad designs and laziness!

Ha! That’s it! Maybe we can kill CUVs by consistently calling them minivans! People hate minivans! If we convince enough people that everyone else thinks they drive a minivan, they’ll start buying better vehicles.

Edit: My mistake.