Hang on, two-smoke diesels?  When was the last one of those released?

I know this site is filled with hyperbole, but what specific income do you have in mind for this ~90-100k car? Because there are plenty of people making 40-60k and financing 30-40k cars, so it’s not unrealistic to think the people buying these are making 100-150k...unless you think moving up the income curve means…

If it’s 40k after 3 years, why not budget like it’s a 50-55k car, and then if you have to sink 4-5k into the transmission or suspension, it doesn’t break your bank and you’ve still got a beast of a car?

When a 5-6 car high speed crash results in a single injury, I’d say we’ve made one of the most inherently dangerous activities in existence pretty safe. If we “nearly had 3 injuries”, then we also *didn’t* have those injuries.

Very first picture, look at the lights.  Squint if you have to.

“chud”?  I didn’t know you people were real...

Fu Manchu, or:

You say that as if the sociopaths you’re enabling will ask for your opinion.  They aren’t going to stop with control of your paycheck and car.  They’re already clamping down all forms of media and pushing bug food and social credit scores.

Does your “better civilization” involve crippling taxes, insect-based food products, and personal autonomy replaced by ad-filled automated pods?

And if the entirety of ocean trash, of every single type for all of America, Europe, and 100+ developed and semi-developed nations still accounts for <5% of what’s out there, that means we could spend billions here to impact a tenth of a percent. Far better to have the 2 overwhelmingly dominant third-world sources…

Over 95% of ocean trash comes from India and Africa where they dump entire truckloads of sewage and trash directly into their water — ever seen an actual river of trash? Plastic bags and straws in first world countries are a virtue-signaling rounding error.

Come on now, I haven’t used 5000 plastic grocery bags in my entire life, and I certainly wouldn’t go through that many before I’d lose or tear a reusable one.  Stuff like this and banning plastic straws while India and Africa literally dump truck loads of sewage and trash into rivers, the source of 95+% of ocean…

They did this with the FWD Impalas last decade

Sounds like somebody got an amazing deal -- 50% off!

Yeah it’s disappointing how little power even the most advanced ones put out. If you look at the university solar cars (ie directly solar powered), they’re one giant surface and weigh nothing, and are still pretty pitiful.

Ah I missed the aerodynamic part, thought you meant from the road slope.  So given sufficient power but insufficient grip, just drive faster until grip increases.

That would be the case if the surface were curved, but I don’t think it’s true for a straight slope because you aren’t being accelerated toward a central point. If you went barreling down a flat piece of road and hit the 45 degree slope you would have a momentary, massive normal force, but once you were on the slope…

The input from the sun is 1000 watts per square meter.  Actual panels are good for about 15% of that, or 150 watts.  Even the NASA-grade ones that cost millions to produce are only good for around 300.

It’s actually “pedantical”, actually.

I don’t understand this mentality...yes it’s an expense but “rediculously wealthy” is getting silly.  Here’s one example:  say you make 75k.  Presumably at one point you were making and living on 50k.  Do that, and the extra 15k (post-tax) should cover the kid.  Rinse and repeat as you move up the ladder.