Guarantee that’s what happened. I see this all the time at an area where a highway crosses I-5 near my house and people just shoot across the gore point last minute because they’d rather almost kill someone than get off at the next exit and turn around.

The way the Chinese Communist Party control the economy, I’m not sure American companies will ever be competitive.

100% this, there was normally a sign there anyway to he would have hit that instead.

It estimated between 1,680 and 25,841 fewer vehicles would be sold annually because of the rule.

“Became lost while using his GPS"? I read that as "tried to cut across illegally after missing his exit"

1st gear, whenever we talk about prices we also need to be talking about potential impact to wages as well, as the two go hand in hand. (We are a global economy so we shouldn’t go 100% protectionist, but we need to stop talkimg about the impacts piecemeal and present the full story)

Someone please explain this to the Ford Motor Company, then. I own two Fords, and the headrest angle in both vehicles is too far forward; my head would be pitched toward my chest if I were to leave the headrest in its normal position, and I would have to look over the tops of my eyeglasses to see out the windshield —…

Many of them are seemingly designed for people who drive around with the seatback at a 45 degree incline. If you sit with the seatback more upright, the headrests are canted so far forward that the seats are all but unusable. It’s helpful if they tilt-adjust but many do not.

Is Thomas Hajicek striving to be the only commenter left on this site

As far as backing off the EV pledges....did these companies do no fucking market research?  Was there expected to be enough electrical capacity to support that many cars on the grids?  Taking into account other electrical needs?  Was there expected to be enough capacity for charging stations?  Clearly the US was going…

100% agree, but talking with an engineering buddy of mine, we both agree that both the network and charging tech will need to improve in order to achieve optimal results for the public. No matter how many stations you have, if each car needs 30 mins or more not factoring waits and charger outages, the inconvenience…

This is a car enthusiast site, right? Has the author of this article actually driven a lightweight car without any aides past the limit?

Cars are too heavy, there have been tons of reports and articles about that (even here). See every EV and how about the new M5 that weighs more than an F150. Modern cars CAN be made lighter, CAN be safe and FUN.

I’d guess they can still get away with it because false advertising laws have been so abused lately (suing because there are no real Crunchberries in Cap’n Crunchberries cereal, suing because Cap’n Crunch only has the bars of a lieutenant, suing because Subway tuna has no tuna, etc.) that it would be difficult to get…

Someone needs to focus on building out the charging infrasucture. The big thing that got A LOT of early Tesla adopters to jump over was the Supercharger network. Electrify America fucking sucks, and the NACS adoption across other countries is kind of a mess. 

At least in the US, due to the crummy CAFE regulations that make it unprofitable to make small cars because a small car has to be massively more efficient than a large car to be given regulatory signoff, yes, cars are too big and heavy. But we got here because that’s how the manufacturers wanted the regulations to…

“Old cars suck, actually”. -Jalopnik, 2024

He’s not wrong. Cars, esp EVs, are way too heavy. And they are nearly indistinguishable from each other, especially suv's. I saw a Bentley suv the other day, and could tell the difference between that and every other out there.

As much as I like the idea of an EV and mostly enjoyed driving my Mach E the last 13 months, I can’t wait for the lease to be over so I can switch back. The occasional need to charge on the go has been frustrating. From charging sites being full, to chargers being offline/broken, to seeing fights break out as to who…

The 2nd Gear Headline seems like a bit of a stretch to drum up controversy. I don’t see Toyota’s remarks as distancing themselves from the LGBTQ+ community. They’re dismissing a Troll and little else. In fact, they state supplier diversity is a valued criteria. I don’t hold the lack of a “Quota” against a company,…