I own 11 vehicles. I can easily afford a Tesla. Next time don’t attempt to make dumb insults at people you don’t know.

This is to me, just another example of why I continue to refer to Tesla as an exotic automaker.  They keep doing things that are beyond stupid.  I’ll keep my Bolt thank you.

Enough with the “it would be better if it was electric”. No, it would not. Unless you can make an electric motor sound and feel (and smell!) like a wildly tuned race motor, have a usefully large battery that only weighs as much as a tank of gas, and bolt it to the front of a manual transmission. This car as an extra…

5th Gear: The key word in that excerpt is “pacemaker.” There’s a priority list here, and there are lots of items above cars on it. Of course, one solution could be to cut down on the use of chips by, saying, ripping out those godawful dashboard systems! Just a thought. 

Making a bad behavior safer is the same as encouraging said bad behavior. Bad behaviors should be discouraged in all situations.

Most lithium batteries don’t require external oxygen to burn, they have the oxidizer right inside the cell, that’s one of the reasons they are so dangerous. The only way to keep them from re-igniting is to take away all of the heat to prevent re-ignition and also make sure there are no internal shorts in any of the…

The driver was the one in the backseat, not the passenger seat.

Just make autonomous cars Johnny Cabs. Anything else, drive yourself. This hybrid system is dangerous and stupid. If you can be trusted to drive then you should be driving. The idea that a half involved person should be ready to react to negative road conditions the moment control is forced over by the computer is…

A place like Sebring is a great example of all “legendary” USA race circuits. All of them outside of COTA and Indianapolis have not kept up with the times. They’ve been neglected for so long that to change them would “ruin” them.

I’m with you. It used to be a “challenge” but now it’s just ridiculous. There is a difference between a rough track and one not suitable for racing on. 

Is it a problem? no.

For those who have no interest in the driving experience, particularly those who can’t drive stick, it make sense.

SpaceX doesn’t do beta testing on public highways.

Shhh, you aren’t supposed to ask questions like that. You are just supposed to bust a nut over the thought of 550,000 charging stations

This IS having vision—failover is a huge part of AV and I literally just envisioned a possible solution, or at least a start. As far as handing over all driving to the “most advanced” systems from Tesla, GM, etc, we’d be boned, at least right now. There’s been plenty of mis-used Autopilot wrecks.

I never understood this, either. I had 3 Subarus and I loved the company until they stopped building what I wanted. People were surprised when I bought a Mazda instead of another Subaru as if it was a given that I was going to keep buying whatever they put out. The Mazda was fine, but boring, rusted, and felt end-of-li…

For me it's Tesla bros plus Elon Musk himself that are preventing me from buying one. My next daily driver is definitely going to be an EV and Tesla has the best value proposition going when you consider the car+infrastructure, but I have such an aversion to fanboyism that I just might buy an objectively inferior…

Motherfucker, PLEASE. The book isn’t anti-autonomous cars at all. I fucking WISH writing anti-Tesla articles made one tiny bit of difference on book sales. It doesn’t. And I’m not anti-Tesla. But if this is your reaction to this story, perhaps you should seek out your clergyperson or a trusted relative. Maybe a…

This is Jalopnik, right? A place for the car enthusiasts to gather?

Nope. Wrong. Any time you put rules into the race like that someone will pay a fortune to circumvent them without getting caught. Look at NASCAR.