I’m literally going to copy/paste my answer for “the most underrated car” QOTD because these kind of go hand in hand.

Counterpoint... The Fenders on U-Haul trailers are too high. Most people don’t know they are actually hinged so you can swing them down and get your doors open to get in/out of your car when it is loaded.

I never understood how someone could make that mistake in a Chrysler. SInce the mid 90s, on the back of the steering wheel are buttons. on the right side, the buttons on the top and bottom control volume up and down. The center button controls modes. On the left side, the up and down buttons control radio station…

In this article: A lot of mediocre cars that are exactly correctly rated.

“Gas prices went down, and people went back to buying bigger trucks/SUVs as if the same thing that happened in 2008 and 2012 couldn’t happen, again.”

President Biden shares some blame. Cancellation of XL pipeline slows available world supply. Cancellation of of new Federal contracts and anti Fracking stance is a loss of future supply. The reality of no supply difference right now means little to the stock market which is forward looking. 

The worst part is that other car makers are copying Tesla’s bad ideas because they think that they need have those features to be considered a cutting edge EV maker. I might have considered a Mach-E but for the fact that they decided to do that whole massive-touchscreen-that-controls-everything instead of just having…

It’s a very smart idea for making loads of money. We as consumers have to nip it in the bud and not let it normalize. 

And here it is, the only necessary comment on this subject.

None. They can kiss my ass.

That’s not a new phenomenon. Pop the hood of a 70's medium duty truck (similar ratings to a current 1 ton) and you’ll be able to climb into the engine bay and lean on the inner fender to work on it. The radiator will take up the whole grille though, which is the same reason they’re so large now. Cooling takes airflow.

I live in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area and you see fatality accidents every day on the news  with all different types of vehicles. There is a driver training issue that applies to all cars. I don’t see this as an issue that applies exclusively to trucks.

You’re right, the rant does fall apart if you change one of the words in the quote to another word.

Totally. Everything is literally input! I have a real hard time with futurists in general but it is crazy how dismissive of the human beings that the tools are made for this stuff gets. Machines are not built in a vacuum humans that live in society build them.

Look the simple story here is that octane rating is a means to prevent pre-ignition. Any car with OBDII will tell you if you are doing it wrong because...

About the only benefit is that historically premium had a better additive package with more detergents and whatnot. Probably not true anymore.

Negative, it supports my thesis that most people are ignorant about the world around them. It’s the same people that won’t think about whether they have DRL’s or automatic headlights, or plan for their upcoming exit instead of cutting across 3 lanes of traffic at the last moment.

There’s gonna be a point where subscriptions will become too much, leading to someone to say “why don’t we just bundle all the shows together into a package” and call it cable...wait.

ehhh, EV’s a really supposed to be the future of consumer vehicles. If *any* amount of early adopters are going back, that seems newsworthy.

Good eye! Color me not surprised that this system can be defeated by anyone with reasonable hauling/towing experience. I could see myself using it just to see how close it is to my home scale then go back to doing things the old school way.