I drive an early 2010s Tundra, and I use it daily for real work. In a couple years, I’m considering replacing it with whatever option has similar or superior towing and hauling capacity (2000lbs+ in an 8 foot bed, and 10,000lbs+ of towing capacity). I don’t need massive range for my use case.

Drivers of older cars never have to deal with...

The car refusing to start because the software’s updating (happened once to a family member).

Third-party techs being unable to make repairs because it was entirely designed around proprietary parts and locked software.

New cars are better than old cars. They’re faster, more reliable, more agile, more durable, safer, more comfortable, more weather-proof, and require less maintenance. And they’re getting better.

I understand why people who grew up with historical ICE-style cars worry about repair availability (and it’s true that lots…

A given battery cell can only charge at a certain speed, so reducing the number of cells in a battery doesn’t speed up charging (you get the same percentage charge per minute, so with a smaller battery, you just get less range per minute of charging). Reducing the number of battery cells also reduces power output…

You’re absolutely right - the battery energy density and charging infrastructure isn’t quite there yet for electric touring motorcycles. It’s very close, though. If a company (like Harley/Livewire) wanted to make a heavy e-motorcycle with 300-350 lbs of battery (650 curb weight?), they could probably get 20-24kwh,…

Honestly, I love my Zero. I use it for errands, commuting, off-roading, and just for fun exploration, but (and I say this with huge respect for the engineering that went into it), it’s not a track “day” bike - it’s a track “hour” bike.

I want to see an action horror game that starts you off with a full squad, lots of ammo, lots of technical gadgets, and plenty of powerful weapons that work perfectly. Then attrition happens: your buddies start dying off, your ammo runs low, your gadgets get damaged or batteries drain and you have to pick which ones…

I mean, you’re not wrong, but they’re killing off MAGAs even faster than they’re killing sane people these days.

The Republicans are already running on a platform of killing Americans en masse. What’s one more murder?

Looks awesome. I wish a real company was posting these renders!

Okay, here me out...

It’s a bad movie, and a fairly forgettable one at that. It’s a “war” between braindead humans and non-sapient aliens. Somehow, despite the humans having strategic-scale modern weapons, and the aliens being naked animals living in nests with no technology or tool use, the humans lose badly (and it’s kind of hilarious).…

On one hand, the best way of getting a human to pay constant attention to their vehicle is to put them in direct control of it. Human brains are ridiculously terrible at paying close attention for long periods of time with no interactivity, and humans are also slow on the uptake - it takes time for them to orient…

Huh, when I saw the title of this article, I thought it’d be about the more recent time a California cop ran over a bicyclist and drove off and got their buddies to try to cover it up (July 21, in Sacramento). Go figure.

That looks absurdly uncomfortable. No armrests for anyone? No cup holders? If I’m going to be a passenger in a self-driving car, I want at least a place to rest my arms, and possibly even an airplane-like tray table for a laptop or something, not just a rotating bucket-seat in the middle of an Aesthetic Void.

Dammit now I want to daily a Sherman EV conversion. It’s got great off-road capabilities for when I go to the grocery store.

While this evil loser certainly deserves hard time, and he’ll get it, I really appreciate the comedic value of this moron’s inability to plan a crime without googling “how to plan a crime”.

I mean, apart from the obvious (cell phones, alcohol, aggression, inability to pass safely), the ones that bother me in California are:

Slowing down to Posted Speed Limit Minus Twenty whenever it rains lightly.

Driving without headlights in pouring rain/heavy fog.

Obviously the new Miata EV will have to be a little bit bigger to fit the batteries and the second row of seats, but there’ll be plenty of room once they do the eight inch lift and eliminate the retractable roof. The motors will be up front next to the drive wheels, naturally. /s please don’t kill me

Yeah, the translators didn’t seem to understand that the intended meaning of the line wasn’t “friends are convenient haha”. It was “friends could save you from dying in poverty haha”. It’s a big tonal difference.