Yeah, that was a weird flex.

I don’t understand how people function like this. I’m not a neatnick by any stretch, but how hard is it to put your wrapper in a garbage can, your can in the recycling bin? Further, how the hell does that much trash end up in the car to begin with? I’ve got a seven year old and all the crap that goes with one and my…

More than likely predicated on the fact that the tech actually gets worked out. Suffice it to say, nobody’s selling fusion reactors to make power *right now.* Tesla is definitely selling a product you can buy and try to use this instant that doesn’t work and may never work.

They’re “here” in the same way that the fusion reactors somebody else mentioned. They work! For a bit. In very, very specific circumstances. The major difference is that nobody’s selling fusion reactors.

20 years ago it was ten years away. Ten years ago it was 20 years away. Now it’s 30 years away.

Labeled “beta” or not and regardless of whether the average person even knows that that means, when are we going to address the fact that Tesla is still selling a product that doesn’t do what it says it does. The argument that “Autopilot” was fine was only on a semantic technicality. “Full Self-Drive” neither…

Four seat, huh? Yeah, technically. If your passengers have no legs.

I’m supportive of having fewer things crammed into the infotainment interface, but no CarPlay/Android Auto makes me a sad boy.

Why post-2006 Subaru? Personally, I’d move that date up to post-2010. They had mostly worked the EJ25 head gasket issues out by then. I might even suggest a later one so you can get an FB engine. EJ’s and EZ’s burn gas like a refinery fire. I know, I know. The CVT sucks. Realistically, at the “few thousand for a winter…

Whereas my manager and I regularly talk about video games and cars, and how he’s a maker and builds costumes for his kids to do cosplay. In fact, he sent me a 3D model for a part my kid’s Halloween costume was missing. I work for a payroll company; you’d think managers would be stodgy as hell.

Somebody really needs to explain what toxic masculinity is to this guy. Dudes haven’t been told that they’re bad because their men for years. They’ve been told that being emotionally stunted, violent, misogynistic, rapist dictators is bad for years. That’s because being those things is *bad.*

Oh, very much this. This is what gets people. They see the one blind across the road a few hundred feet up and think “oh, it’s fine now” and plaster one of the other six that was waiting for the perfect opportunity to die.

205hp from a 3.1L V6. With a turbo. Man. Where’d it all go?

+1. I couldn’t care less what other people think about the car I drive. I also have an E46 because it drives wonderfully. The fact that it’s a BMW only really entered into the equation because they made cars that were great to drive. People noticed it back when I first got it because it was current. That was annoying.…

Your 87 Tempo had a check-engine light? Neat! Too bad it was before OBD-II, so getting trouble codes was stupid.

Maybe we need different classifications of messages. Like, “visit mechanic soon,” “this pretty serious,” and “SHITCALLFORATOW!”

I mean, I guess not. It’s worked for nearly two centuries. Or, to be fair, “worked.” Driving is fun for some people, and some people even enjoy it. But, most people hate it and suck at it, enough so that you encounter more than one shitty driver on every trip. Humans are only barely safe in the best of driving…

On one hand, they’ve gotta develop the system somehow. I don’t have a better idea than trying it in the only place they really can: the real world. That said, I’m right there with you with the sentiment that a system that can’t operate without babysitting and actively disincentivizes doing that babysitting, and…

I kind of hope that it results in there just being less in the way of telematics in cars. They don’t use the data for your benefit anyway. They just use it to sell to data miners for making targeted ads.

I don’t think it does. Besides, you park you car in gear, don’t you?