3rd gear: She sits on the board of a Lidar company. Kind of relevant.

If people bought smaller cars, auto companies would pollute less, because smaller cars take less energy to manufacture. When you fly somewhere, the airplane emissions get pinned on Southwest or Delta, not the passenger. Cow farts get charged to the farmer rather than the eater. It’s easy to pin it on big corporations,…

I think people that slam on moms for “not buying the damn minivan” if they need to move a family around need to get a reality check.

It was mind blowing at the time when they were just killing off the Caravan and leaving the Town & Country, and it was 5x more mind blowing when they killed the Town & Country to have the Pacifica. EVERYONE knew what the Caravan was, and that a T&C was a fancier one. It was synonymous with “minivan”. Fucking idiots.

It really depends on which desk job it happens to be.

I think Jason made it clear any explanation of this taillight setup needs to be given using an overhead projector pulled from one’s pants. 

I mean, this is clever as hell, no doubt.  But the best thing about this is the article itself.  God damn, Torch, you’re a madman

oh noes. he used the grammatically correct english language gender pronoun when suggesting that people unhappy with the schedule should find another job. “They” while politically correct as of sometime in the last year or so is grammatically incorrect. just wait, next year we will crucify people for using “they” when…

That math still ignores things like angle and temp and the additional weight for both the panel and extra transforming equipment. You’d be lucky to get 4-5 miles in the summer. 

pfft, GWAR’s been threatening to kill my whole family on stage for decades

Oh man, now I want to see what a Cadillac WRX would look like - like the Saab 9-2x, or a just a hood-scooped Caddy crossover?

The problem with “Just-in-time” is everyone only reads surface deep into it and doesn’t truly understand the philosophy of it. People just think that inventory=bad when that is not at all the case. Toyota had a chip shortage like 10 years ago (I think during the Japanese tsunami?) and so they adjusted chip inventory…

RE Neutral:

Knob selectors are awesome. They are intuitive, don’t take up much space, and did I mention they are intuitive?

I really hope they remedy the lack of AWD with the Hybrid powertrain in later years, because that’s egregious. That said, I want one real bad.

Does it have a snorkel or is that just a truly bizarre trim piece? 

If they’re generating a substantial amount of downforce using the ground effect, then the suspension can’t be all that compliant, or you risk disturbing the air going under the car.

I’m not in the automotive industry so this is somewhat speculation, but another reason not to miniaturize is simple robustness.

Yes and no. The high voltage battery needs to be completely isolated from the car when the car is off for safety reasons. So you need “something” to power the relay that makes that connection when you turn the car on. And the simplest and cheapest something is a good old-fashioned 12V system as used in billions of…