Local driver complains that budget electric car has budget materials.

I went from seeing a Bolt every other day to now seeing shit loads of them within a few months. To be fair this is California where people go nuts over these kinds of cars. But it was the same with the Prius first came out. Clearly whatever GM is doing works. That and after seeing them on the roads the cars are…

I’m sorry but every time I see one of these “customer takes their car on track and warranty is voided” posts I am in complete and utter shock and disbelief. I am a dealer master tech for BMW and we have MANY customers who track their cars. If the failure is not directly related to an “incident” such as a money shift…

Or maybe they should, you know, leave the job of catching criminals to police officers, who actually might have a clue of what they are doing.

Every time we get an email that says something like that, I take a pill out of the Big Jar.

Subaru may be known by car people as the people that make boxer engines, but the regular consumer, the “real people,” don’t know and don’t give a shit. I don’t think I’d go so far as to say their hallmark is safety, it’s probably just being Japanese because people associate that with cheap cost of ownership. Adding…

The Civic Si is not solely about power. It has an LSD and adaptive shocks standard.

The insurance on the Mustang is higher. Also cleaning human blood off the body is a shitty job.

p51d007 jokes are always the funniest jokes because the person making the joke doesn’t know he’s making a joke.

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They took his home his kids and his land for worthless beads? No? Then you have no idea what you are talking about.

I hate to tell you this, but if you feel like you are entitled to a reward just for doing the right thing, that is just self-interest, not altruism.

In certain applications yes.  Most professional licensing is used to as a way for those in the profession to limit competition and drive up compensation. Not so much in engineering. There’s a little of it in the civil engineering arena but outside of that and some consulting (not all) state licensing is pretty…

Is the fine for criticizing the management of traffic lights, or for using the title of Engineer without passing the state licensing exam?

However, I understand why they were formed and the good that unions did for their workers and the workforce in general. We shouldn’t need them today, especially at a company like Tesla, but there might be no other choice.

Now, after all of this, it is easy for me to get a little nostalgic, even for the 1992 Pontiac Bonneville. You could get it with a powerful supercharged 3.8 liter V6, it was roomy, and the ride and handling was not horrible. Much of what we long for today in new cars—size and comfort without pretentiousness—is here in…

I love that literally every comment on this article is either “they can’t even fix the roads we have now!” or “Won’t this just steal energy from the cars?”

Idea: Fill the potholes with piezo arrays.

Cue responses from all sorts of people living someplace else talking theoretical BS about how one car driving around multiple trips is better than everyone driving their own car. In theory that sounds good until you realize how many fucking empty Uber/Lyft drivers are driving around San Francisco ALL THE TIME. And…

around here in suburb so cal - I notice more of the issue that uber/lyft drivers just don’t know where they’re going, often holding up traffic looking at their phone... major problem arising from ‘normal’ drivers trying to be cabbies. no sense of direction, no mental map, no good grasp of how to drive either...