Car companies don't want you to crash, because they don't want to pay to fix anything, but they need you to worry about crashing or else their product is simply less valuable. Getting mauled by a bear would suck serious ass, but it's such an infrequent occasion that few people purchase "bear mauling insurance."
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Boy, Lexus grills are really getting to be hideous....
Apart from the logo, this thing doesn't resemble a Tesla at all.
Only because the manufacturer was dumb as can be. My Toyota is that way - if I have an oversized load and need to bungee the trunk closed, going around the spoiler is one of the few effective ways.
My old Ford, on the other hand - they had a hole drilled in the latch on the trunk lid that you just fed the bungee…
They get a check before every flight. There are more comprehensive maintenance checks known as A, B, C, or D checks that occur less often.
A checks are the least intensive of these, and they can generally be done overnight. On a plane like the A380, they would happen a little less often than once a week.
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Not just that, but if it was all relative, then it still would have the exact same problem as the measured differences are small
Stock image FTW!
You really need to look at how their dots are determined.
It used to be that it was relative. Now it is a mixed metric. Average or better ratings are based on an absolute scale, below average or worse is based on a relative scale.
So yes, they actually are trying to split hairs between tiny failure rates on most…
yep.
I have a bone to pick with any group that says they can make grand conclusions based on limited or poor data. I've blasted the "total quality index" or whatever that thing is that they keep pushing on Jalopnik for the same reasons.
Do you know what CR *is* good for? Pointing out the complete lemons. It's one thing…
Let me explain it for you.
CR tries to measure 10 different model years. There were 230 different models report on in the 2013 buyers guide. So let's approximate things here: 1.1e6/10/230 = 478.
That's approximately 478 vehicles per sample they're trying to report on (give or take some for some vehicles that had…
Neutral: Would You Buy A Subaru? If you were in the market for a new car would you at least cross-shop it?
Names and addresses.
A woman named Laquanda living in Queens is not likely to be white.
There's currently a bill in the U.S. House that would allow our dwindling reserve of transportion funds to be spent on vehicle-to-vehicle communications as well as the actual physical infrastructure.
I hope to never engineer a problem so complex that you had to go to Cal Tech to unwind it.
Mostly, we ignore car awards because they're circle-jerk media plays designed to attract recognition (and advertising) and shouldn't be trusted. But Consumer Reports doesn't accept advertising so... it's kind of important.
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Ford has this already. It's available through most of their Euro lineup and on the Transit Connect in the US...
It's almost impossible to find? Our local grocery store has a decent selection of options.
Of course, they also have a working monorail....
Does that really say "time control"? :O