Uh no? If it were a non-famous person you wouldn’t even know this crash existed. Da fuck are you people talking about?

He was probably distracted by a slideshow

Not really. When I’m riding I’m not expecting random wheels to appear from nowhere. I’m focusing on what the cars around me are doing first and foremost.

This 100X. At highway speeds by the time you saw that wheel there was no time to come up with a game plan other than pucker up

Put yourself in the same situation as this guy and you would’ve hit the wheel too. Not only is this obstacle completely unexpected, but there wasn’t even enough time to process it and make a decision on what inputs to give to the bike. The only real option was to hit it.

I don’t have the words for how ridiculous this is. WTF are those moronic clowns doing that they’re double-charging people for AN ENTIRE CAR?!? This kind of shit is totally unacceptable, especially for what’s supposed to be a professional car company.

...I love how they put two of their existing discrete 12.3" LCD panels and a 17-20" new screen into a large piece of acrylic where they’re just opaquing the borders and are calling it a 56" “hyperscreen”. If I mounted 3 TV’s of different sizes in a line, covered them in a large piece of glass, and told my friends to…

That V10 diesel Toureg will break the bank many times over before the Merc does.

Mercedes: The $30k-$35k target was to buy the vehicle, not the annual maintenance bill.

Value to customer only matters if Tesla is the only company that can deliver a level 5 autonomy, otherwise competition will drive price down. They are behind other companies on self-driving tech, so it’s not likely they will be the first or only company to market with the tech. Either way, it’s not going to happen on…

The whole concept that FSD is cheaper now if you pre-order it than it will be as the technology matures is bonkers. No other technology follows that path. Technology gets cheaper as it matures. 

According to the Autocar article Porsche wanted to do it this way for safety reasons as some of the updates directly impact how the car functions.

Yeah, to a trained driver it’s extremely unsettling to watch, and it does it every single time in the video.

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the car is angled into traffic and the wheel is turned waiting for the opportunity to make the left turn?

Did you watch the video at all? she linked it at the time stamp to show all the turns. The sketchy one was the last aborted left turn. The system didn’t detect a truck AND a truck towing a boat as a moving target (yellow designation instead of the blue in the other attempts) and was literally about to pull in front of…

You may still want to put on a set of Class 4 insulated gloves and some flash rated FR gear before attempting that.  That many electrons getting freed all at once usually makes for a bright light and lots of heat.

They REFUSED to publish my story about my Miata getting locked to a Supercharger! It’s been there 7 months, still on E. 

250 kW of energy going through that plug and you wonder why it needs to lock?

Because apart from the electrical issues from disconnecting under power, with unlocked plugs you’d get youths going around unplugging people’s cars because it’s funny and idiots uplugging other cars to charge their own.

When Tesla stops crapping out $hitboxes maybe Jalopnik coverage will be more favorable.