I was driving solo to California the week of the 2020 election. It was somewhere in New Mexico or Arizona - where the landscape had given way to that mix of scrubland, desert, mountains and plateaus. I was driving along one of those state highways that just seems to stretch on forever into the distance (because the…

Didn’t Doug DeMuro buy one of these in better condition for less than half this price, back when he was a staff writer for Jalopnik? Didn’t his videos show that it was a terrible value proposition, even at $30-something thousand?

“safest and swiftest” - let’s be real here, they only care about one of those things...

“These are as good as you’re ever going to get!”

I mean, can you blame her?

How did they make something that looks almost as bad as the Youabian Puma?

Gotta love YouTube Music, for having all the obscure bands from defunct record labels, whose fans uploaded their recordings. That alone makes it worth the price.

It’s legal in Michigan, for medical and recreational use. We’re down around the same price as you, for top tier stuff - and on 4/20 all the dispos have ridiculous sales. I snagged 10 1g live resin vape cartridges and 4 200mg bags of live resin edibles for less than $100.

Does anyone else find it strange that the protestors in that video tweet just sort of laid there on the ground after getting dragged out of the street? Like, if they were there to genuinely protest and block traffic, why wouldn’t any of them get back up and get back in the way of traffic?

I like the idea of a driving test for self-driving capabilities. We could even adapt the name of the test used to see if an AI can convince people through conversation that it’s human, to automotive use - call it the “Touring Test”!

What’s that thing that I love so much....it’s right on the tip of my tongue... oh yeah, Jalopnik not being so hard up for content and clicks, that they only wait 4 weeks before reposting the same request for the readership to generate content for them!

It’s giving Outback Sedan vibes, and I’m just fine with that.

I’d probably go with a WRX wagon. Hawkeye maybe? Performance, but still practical. The more hopeful side of me would go with a Polestar 2 AWD, because I want to believe owning an EV will become affordable in my lifetime

Wow that’s a funky looking bike... Maybe you should proofread your AI a bit better...

“Spicy” Venison... It really goes to show how much we’ve ratcheted up the flavor levels since the 90s, I guess.

I didn’t feel like it was mocking us, but your other point is sadly on the nose. The more I’ve thought about it, the more I kinda love that it did it, just... I think the era for that human of interaction between human and AI probably hasn’t arrived yet. The cool people get it, and love it, but the general populace…

Having seen the limitations of LLMs thus far, even as a proponent of AI and robotics, it wouldn’t surprise me. The current AI hype, much like the autonomous vehicle hype of a few years ago, reminds me a bit too much of the dotcom era...

The “uh” and the repeated “I” in the later response make me wonder: Why exactly did they program it to incorporate those sort of things into its speech? While it does make the robot more relatable to humans, this early on in the introduction of AI and systems like these, surely someone is going to say the voice is…

I’m glad there’s a workaround. I wonder if she didn’t know about it. Definitely in that situation, seals and trim be damned. The car’s a write off, but my life isn’t.

Are the latches on Teslas purely mechanical, when opened from the inside? With the fancy, automatic pop out external handles, I’ll admit I assumed the internal one was electric as well. I’d be relieved to know I was wrong, but if they aren’t, it’s understandable why they wouldn’t have worked when the car was…