Obviously unpopular take, but hear me out, and try to not flame the piss out of me. I’m happy to discuss, but don’t be a dick about it.

Anyways, this doesn’t change the fact in the slightest about your constitutionally protected right to protest. That’s actually termed “the right to peaceably assemble”. Peaceable…

Good grief you guys will turn anything into a political mess for clicks.

Culver’s is better than in-n-out...whataburger is better than both...

Once again, The KinjaAVClub takes it upon themselves to decide who may take which roles.

I mean, it’s still going to feel quick, because 850 hp. Just putting that number in perspective. A diesel 2500 silverado puts out more peak torque without low range... And probably weighs about the same.

Not even any 4-Hi/Lo transfer case on the truck since its got a single-speed gearbox, albeit one per motor. The 11,500 lb-ft is just the wheel torque, and they don’t market the axle torque, but yeah, effectively the same idea behind finding a torque figure for a 4x4 in 1st gear and 4-Lo with whatever sized tired it…

This is where I remind people that 11500 lbs feet of torque sounds more impressive than it is.

Dude needed a job. Lay off of the poor guy. It’s not like he killed a baby still in the womb.

Fine. Who cares anyway? I could see if he had injured someone other than himself, then maybe release the cause. Otherwise it just seems like paparazzi ambulance chasing.

The thing is though - he might. If you cut a human driven truck off, he might just hit you. If you get him to stop and he feels threatened, he might very well decide to run over your ass to get away. 80klbs of semi is a hell of a weapon. A robot truck will do no such thing. It will just stop and bleat for help. Which…

I don’t see how creative people won’t be able to figure out how to hijack loads by just blocking the autonomous trucks in, overriding their little computer brains, spoofing their GPS, or some other tricky trick.

I don't care about cheaper. I care about the car I want at the trim level I want in the color I want and not having to go on down to every dealer in town and shop thier inventory while getting the run around.

The dealer already can’t sell me the car I want direct. The configurator sends me to the list of local dealers.

Your assertion is that the expenses offloaded to a dealer network are greater than the dealer adds to the end customer, which is complete conjecture, especially when automakers have to have entire departments staffed up just to deal with the admin associated with dealer networks. Dealers add very little value to most…

“I’ve actually SEEN first-hand what happens when big companies try to cut their dealers out and go all-direct. It doesn’t work. Ever.”

How would you know that consumers are “comfortable paying whatever they are paying” if they don’t really have an option but to pay dealer prices. Call it a captive audience.

“They’re already at the competitive price as-is, and now there’s even less competitive options.”

Because you’re not the only car manufacturer out there? So sure, Ford could insist on charging MSRP for their cars, but the other manufacturer would just lower their MSRP to take sales if they’re all direct and they have the dealer margins to work with. Competition doesn’t go away just because dealerships go away…

So if your argument is that selling direct isn’t economically beneficial to the manufacturer because it “gets really expensive, real fast” then why would dealerships be afraid of these manufacturers selling direct? Clearly they’re going to fail and tie up all their money in their own sales network so you might as well…

Middlemen are an expense. Dealer margins are real, and the franchised dealer model creates all sorts of games that get played that result in the consumer not getting the vehicle they want, and expense getting added into the system.