You know, if we just agreed to harmonize our safety, equipment, & emissions standards with the EU, it wouldn’t matter what automakers decided to sell in the US. Anybody that wanted a Euro-market only model badly enough would be free to go through the expense and hassle of buying one overseas and putting it on a ship.…

I’m detecting a slight hint of hostility in this article.

“Users of the internet emphasize retrieving and manipulating information over contextualizing or conceptualizing its meaning. They rarely interrogate history or philosophy; as a rule, they demand information relevant to their immediate practical needs. In the process, search-engine algorithms acquire the capacity to…

you don’t internet much, do you?

Have you considered maybe not owning Fords?

Nobody is saying anyone deserves to die. This is a fallacy invoked for the sake of histrionics and nothing more.

This is a case of the equipment being superior to the operator. I have a fob system, have not died because of it. Also parked in a garage successfully and somehow did not fill the house up with poisonous gas.

a) cite your sources that no one has died with a physical key

Apparently so is reading the article.

Within one standard deviation isn’t what you want. You want to start skewing to the left passing the mean and approaching the faster set of drivers pushing to be three deviations away from the mean. Roughly 66% drivers of a similar car would be within one standard deviation. For the Robocar, it’s goal would be to push…

I like this response and I appreciate your impetus to remain objective in your assessment of the world around you.

You can make that calculation simpler:

‘17 A4 with the digital dashboard.

The collective minds of the Jalopnik readership just exploded.

How much does an SUV block that a van wouldn’t?

.....said Karl Marx.

Wow. “I’m stupid, so everyone else is too.”

My car actually has an extra section of data in the dash for how much gas is being used generating electricity for various systems. It’s pretty cool. It’s usually about 1/16th to 1/8th of a gallon per hour to power all the lights (fog lights, turning lights, etc) and the seat heaters, etc. I suspect as more and more…

I think sound “tubes” are okay, but anything that utilizes a speaker to amplify engine noise can take a hike

I will control my headlights manually whether you like it or not. Just because ignorant people don’t know when to use their headlights doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t be able to control my headlights how I want. The solution is not taking control away from people. The solution is actually teaching people how to do…