“In his initial review, Jalopnik’s own David Tracy bemoaned the lack of stability on the two-door Bronco. ”

uh, has he ever driven a Wrangler 2 door?  ever heard of death wobble?  saw one just the other day on its side in the middle of a 4 lane road.  driver turned left into a car in his blind spot (across a solid…

money laundering.. it is really good for that.

VSC is most helpful in controllable situations for people who don’t actually know how to drive, like, you know, 90+% of america..... but for when shit is really going sideways it helps everyone..

VSC saved my buddy and his family’s lives. was driving ~65 mph down the parkway on in a massive downpour, chucklehead…

but only because it is so old that it predates the microchip.

/only a little /s

the W8 makes a lot of sense for Audi and their longitudinal engine configuration keeping it a lot shorter than a traditional V8.

can’t have a tesla article, especially one pointing out their success without also shitting all over them.

just once I would like to see an article about Tesla on Jalopnik that didn’t throw in gratuitous insults.

disclaimer: I don’t and likely never will own a Tesla and am not a particular Tesla fanboi, although I do…

seatbelts and airbags also had step change impacts on fatality (and injury) rates, but not on overall accident rates. if you tease apart accidents per million miles and injuries/fatalities per 100k accidents the different effects of ABS, VSC, Airbags and Seatbelts (and seatbelt laws) become apparent. VSC has, in…

if you look at accident statistics, there are significant step change improvements in accident rate & fatalities with the introduction of ABS and VSC.  lane keep assist not so much.  automated braking it is too early to say (not enough data/too much variability in systems and activation parameters)

BACK THE BLUE!!!!!!! /s

ACAB /not s

is this rerun day?  first the fraudulent plane crash rerun and now this....

none of them were wrong.  except _maybe_  the printing press.

uh, that’s the 2.8 liter 60 degree V6 not the glorious Iron Duke 4.

I love that not only can they fine tune the aim of each mirror individually to the nanometer level, but they can also control the curvature.

the quality focus on this puppy ought to be pretty amazing. they are talking not just about focus of individual mirrors but also aligning the wavelength propagation as it reaches…

that’s an MRAP.  as seen in Bagdad. 

they have been debating and rejecting every few years for forever. they were debating it when I was stationed in Germany in ‘89.

fuck all “Gig Economy” companies right in the sphincter with one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Hunters-Specialties-Butt-Game-Dressing/dp/B002ECKYSA

but they don’t get double the mileage, Ram ecoDiesel is rated at 29 highway and the v6 gas at 26 (hemi at 22, hemi-hybrid 24)

today, regular gas is 3.28/gallon national average, diesel 3.61

over 20k miles (my typical annual) the gas v6 would eat $2500 (Hemi $2981) in gas. the ecoDiesel would eat $2489 in Diesel. An…

this has the advantage to the manufacturer of not having to do a clean job welding the roof to the quarter panel (just as vinyl roofs used to do back in the day) saving them money on manufacturing.

what kind of mileage do you get with those old 2 stroke diesels? how many miles between $10k overhauls?

generally speaking, for anything other than a Semi, the economics of Diesel don’t work out.

no. it isn’t a shortage, it is an inconvenience to the employer. they either need to moderate their profits or increase their price if they want to purchase portions of the worker’s lives... standard capitalism. the market (in this case for human beings) is demanding a higher price for its product. that is not a…