Its turned, I guess to make it look more real or something. 

Actually, the founders of Aldi’s were from Germany, so they probably brought the idea with them.

The fact that the sign is handmade  amateur crap is also concerning.

And include a non-resale clause too

Oh God, night of the living shopping cart, where they all drive themselves home at midnight from all over the neighborhood. Hrmm I CALLED IT, my idea!

And that C4 is 50% off.

When I'm in a car I care about that's exactly what I do, park on the high ground if there is any..

They actually do that at Aldi’s, although it’s hit-or-miss; some people are so lazy that they’ll just leave the cart anyway.

Except for one model of which they’ll only produce 500 units, and force the grocers to submit detailed applications outlining their knowledge of the history of shopping carts, and specifying why they’re worthy of buying it.

You’ve also got the corral to block carts, which makes it roughly 20% safer than being surrounded by cars, which are wont to come and go as they please.

Man uses Cart to eat, Mustang eats man, Cart eats Mustang.
It’s the circle of life.

(I like the single front caster wheel though)

I mean, what I think Kristen’s missing here is that you could easily implement a system that would only engage if no one’s touching the handle. When someone’s touching the handle, the anti-collision system is bypassed.

But the new Ford carts would be Shoppingcart Utility Vehicles and be large enough to hold the food for a family of 9 going up the Amazon for a week so no mortal could push them

But, this can be solved by a purely mechanical solution. Install a deadman brake system. Brake is always on unless A) someone is holding a switch on the pushbar, or B) When another cart is pushed into this one, it pushes a switch that also releases the brake (so cart wranglers can do their job.)

Makes perfect sense.  Shopping carts will not have transmission failures and will not kill the operator if the autopilot fails.

Sometimes they just write themselves.

So much this! My car was unsafe to drive the other week... so I just fixed the bad part and drove 500 miles the next day. Even in the northeast, where I live, it takes a lot for a car to be unsafe and if you really want to, you can repair any amount of rust/rot.

I don’t understand why a Dodge dealer would do this. They have a customer coming in for regular $ervice. If they tell them they need a new car, they are pretty likely to lose them as they shop for a different make after having experienced Dodge ownership.

If it lasted 200,000 miles it couldn’t have been that bad...

They told my dad the same thing with his Toronado at 220k miles because it had some surface rust on the engine cradle. Yet he drove that car to 330k trouble free.