Because if all you do is visit web sites and do some tasks that can be done reasonably in the browser, there is no reason at all to install software, deal with upgrades, back up your documents, etc. About half my friends and relatives don't want to "run an OS" at all, and they struggle with the distinction between…

... says someone typing away in a browser.

@Brent, you need to get out more, the Toto Washlet just celebrated its 30-year anniversary. We like our S300, though the remote control panel's LCD is hard to read. For a lot more money Toto's Neorest sculptural toilet flips its seat up for you. Kohler has the similar C3 seat and $6300 Numi toilet.

The Washlet celebrated its 30-year anniversary in 2011.

We'll never run out of oil, we're: 1) running out of cheap oil — it costs more each year to extract and refine the last gallon delivered. 2) not finding enough new sources of oil — "World wide oil discoveries have been less than annual production since 1980." Since prices remain high that's extremely good evidence…

Your prescription to sell more Roadsters seems dubious. $200k for a Lotus Elise chassis? I know Tesla puts in its own motor, electronics, battery pack, and carbon fiber panels, but that's a step too far. Venturi tried to sell the Fétish for tons of money, as did Wrightspeed the X1, they both failed to sell more than…

And the R8 excellence continue (this is Audi 2009). Look at the soft curve around the eye, on car and professional. Vorsprung durch Technik!

The consistency of the Audi R8 for beautiful curves is awe-inspiring (this is 2011), followed by Maserati. Its Lamborghini Gallardo relation is hit or miss.

Digital copies are better than books for long-term survival, so long as the file formats are published and enough Kindle/Nook/Sony owners have downloaded the cracks to strip the DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) from their purchased e-books. Fight piracy, but support hacking!

At 0:24 "a minivan limousine which happens to be a coupé and which also happens to be a convertible". One of the best short car review of all time, and a perfect 17-word answer to the Jalopnik story's title.

That's the greatest wiper ever. Beats reaching out from the driver's window in a snowstorm and whacking the blade to dislodge built-up snow and ice because if you pull over you'll be stuck in a snowdrift, or finding the cheap-ass all-season wiper fluid Tony put in at your last service freezes below 10°F.

Does anyone here read instead of goggle at pictures? Forget the sheet metal, the boring mass-market Accord Hybrid will *only* come with a plug. That's a momentous change in the automotive industry. If you want the efficient version of the 12th-best selling car in the USA, you'll plug it in.

No oil changes, spark plugs, timing belt, transmission (just a reduction gear), clutch, catalytic converter, muffler, smog check, ... ; and greatly reduced brake wear thanks to regenerative braking. One reason why Tesla owns their stores is dealers rely on servicing to make money, so they have a disincentive to peddle…

The skateboard chassis from the GM Hy-Wire concept. Three hydrogen tanks, fuel cell, motor and a small battery in that 11-inch deep deck, plus fans and tubing and a big chunk of unobtainium.

The motor (? it looks like two, but I think one cylinder is the reduction gear) is nothing to look at, but Tesla is set to deliver the skateboard chassis that GM teased us with the HyWire concept a decade ago. Subaru promotes the low center of gravity from their boxer engine, but just look at this thing! And note how…

Your pic is a Roadster, it has a higher motor. Yes, the Model S is lovely, Franz von Holzhausen delivered.

@Jason Torchinsky, can you figure out how to link to Toyota's press release, like a real car site? There's actually some meat there.

It's not clear that a TDI hybrid would "kill everything in the fuel efficiency department". Toyota's e-CVT lets the engine run more of the time at most efficient load. So Toyota and Ford can run a larger Atkinson-cycle engine with comparable efficiency to a diesel. Toyota has increased the motor power and engine power…

The Euro small diesels that "beat the stupid hybrids" are underpowered subcompacts. And to get those great numbers on the Euro cycle most have stop-start and brake regen, i.e. they're micro hybrids. Unfortunately stop-start seems not to increase mpg on the EPA test.

If the range is enough for your normal driving, how is a gas-free car that you can cheaply and less-bad-for-the-environment-overall "refuel" at home NOT a reasonable choice? It's as stupid as saying a 2-door sports car is a novelty car for the pretentious, hipper-than-thou crowd who ought to be driving a 5-door hatch.…