And use the sand for traction if things get desperate.

It’s a wise decision right up to the point those execs realize they’re way behind the ball on self-driving tech. Then they’re going to panic.

You Bet.  Say you are Jim Rockford, it’s night, and the bad guys are chasing your Firebird.  Pull into a used car lot and quickly turn off all your lights!

Eh. Drivers do so much loading and unloading work right now...

Yeah they suck.  That’s why you buy 500 lbs of sand to put in the back in November.

What I truly do not understand, is that motorcycles have been required to have an always on headlight and taillight for DECADES, specifically for visibility and safety, yet, other vehicles have not been required to do so. I get the half-assed measure or DRLs, but headlights are so much more visible and cause no…

The correct term is Maybach

I think AV4+ will be a reality in 10 years. Not in Cars. In interstate trucks that are programmed to go to I-95,drive for 800 miles and pull into a depot to be unhooked. Geofenced to just be unmanned on the interstate. Sort of what GMs Supercruise could be if they had 4x the budget.

The channel and projects are continuing. 

I still watch their new Grand Tour stuff, and enjoy it well enough. But my partner and I have been rewatching those early/mid-2000s episodes lately, and they’re just better. I know everything has always been scripted, but the older episodes have a charm that’s disappeared as time has gone on. (As an aside, we are…

From how I understand it, it’s just the DriveTribe site itself that’s shutting down. Their social media channels will remain active. (Unless I missed something, which happens). 

Never

COTEMER SEVIS

SavageGeese is grating.  Can’t stand ‘em.  ThrottleHouse is probably my current favorite car YouTube channel.

The majority of the terribleness absolutely comes from the top. Slideshows do count for multiple page views, so writers are forced kicking and screaming to make them or get the fuck out. And the good writers didn’t drive themselves away or hire their replacements. The level of talent this family of websites has burned…

Oh, bullshit. They’re using “challenges” as their excuse to shut down that stupefyingly pretentious website for what it is—a stupefyingly pretentious website. Effing hell—right off the bat with the name: “DriveTribe”—stupefyingly pretentious with the words smushed together with the “T” still capitalized. Just utter ugh…

I’ll stick with SavageGeese.

RIP in Piece

Imagine that. That’s a very futuristic idea. 

If only there was, say, like an off topic yet still somewhat car centric forum for users that was adjacent to a main automotive site. #dontbeanherb