“If dealers aren’t willing to give them more than $40,000, where exactly does Ramsey think a buyer will come from that will give them $10,000 over what’s presumably the market value”

More importantly, a lot of the current rules are meant to narrow the range of possible solutions. If the engineers are given this much latitude, getting stuck with a single dominant car for the season becomes almost certain.

1) F1 doesn’t own any of the circuits. Using a real circuit would require a second licensing deal.

“In reality, it’s hard to measure how much fuel this function saves”

Was the winning bid placed by John Baron?

“...knowing when to drive normally, when to exercise extreme caution, and when to just shut things down until it all blows over...”

And that’s purely a software problem. It seems like for a fleet buyer as big as Hertz having the pedal behavior re-mapped to mimic an ICE car should be doable.

“2. A plain name to go with a plain colour. This is Porsche’s Enzo, how about a name to match the grandeur”

I think the real reason why Rivian ditched this idea is that they’re already absolutely devouring tires.

Those people only care that gas is cheap in Russia.

There’s not even such a thing as “passing” a crash test. Most of the tests are done by IIHS to determine just how badly the occupants are going to be injured in a crash, so that they can estimate the cost of insurance. But even that is beside the point; with only three wheels this will be registered and insured as a…

Torque and entitlement are a bad combination.

Those same people are going to be festooning their own non-autonomous cars with turquoise leds so they won’t get pulled over for playing with their phones.

This place really has fallen apart since Torchinsky left.

Not as big as big as the wrongful death suits that are going to follow false negatives. There’s really no winning here.

There’s enough literature out there on errors in pulse oximetry that I wouldn’t trust this. Ultimately the question is whether tuning the system to get an acceptably low false positive rate (which pretty much needs to be 100% sober starts in two or fewer attempts) and still maintain a low enough false negative rate to…

Hipsters have driven the price of Wagoneers way up in recent years. It may be the Jeep to collect, but right now it’s not the Jeep to buy.

The real problem is that it’s not a 2+2, it’s a 2+0. These cars had back seats put in for insurance purposes, but I’m not convinced that one has ever held a human passenger. Since I’m not quite empty-nester old yet it’s a hard no.

The only people who forgot about the Rendezvous are the ones doing so deliberately to keep the Aztek as a punchline. In reality, the power to weight was solidly average for the time, and without the Pontiac face it wasn’t that bad looking. Buick ended up selling almost twice as many per year as they had projected.

Plus, I just can’t imagine the pain of a lifelong Corvette fan writing a check to a Ford dealership.