Oof, imagine being such a Power Queen you come after the NSX.
How many payments left on the Dodge Challenger you wrecked leaving a Cars and Coffee?

Reddit/Youtube/Twitter goons will still figure out how to blame the rider.

Cost isn’t what keeps people out of full-sized pickups. Many people simply want the more reasonably sized vehicle. Many people want to be able to fit it in their garage. Many people want to be able to drive it and park it worry-free in a busy city. Many people would rather have a significant portion of their money…

On #2 - I was wrong- as far as the FMVSS are concerned, a DRL can be on at night along with the headlights. It’s very common in industry to combine the Front Position function with the DRL function, so DRLs often dim when headlights come on not because they have to, but because they’re switching to a different…

Hey! Automotive Lighting Engineer here.
1) The flickering is DEFINITELY the stroboscopic effect. Speaking of which, I’ve gotta give props to Tesla’s engineers for avoiding the strobe effect on that giant light bar. That doesn’t happen by accident- those big light bars often look like dogshit on camera.

2) It’s common…

I think a quick rundown of the events is what you’re looking for...
For starters, BG3 does not have official mod support, but the Dev’s have never even a little bit been Anti-Modding. There was a huge modding community for BG3 back when it spent years in early-access and it was never a problem.

The issue comes with the…

They usually do for ordinary consumer cars. You wouldn’t want a manufacturer throwing together a special build just for NHTSA to look better on crash tests. It’s probably because of volume at this stage, both because they’ve got higher priority models to test and because it may be hard for them to get one. Who knows!…

The cost of the vehicle is a fraction of the total testing cost. NHTSA pays for and tests >$100k cars all the time, especially in the last decade with auto prices exploding.

I would sooner believe it has more to do with NHTSA’s testing facilities handling the weight/size.

While it is absolutely possible they’re lying about the test results, they have to follow the FMVSS crash test procedures as a part of federal law. Those results have to be submitted to NHTSA for them to sell the vehicles to the public.

This is a common misconception. There are still crash standards for commercial vehicles. They are different and more lax in many ways, especially when applied to a commuter-scale vehicle, but they still exist and Tesla HAD to pass them and submit documentation to NHTSA to sell these vehicles.

Came here to say this. We have a self-cert model for FMVSS compliance and people seem to really struggle with that concept.

The crash requirements for commercial vehicles are different, but they very much still exist. They are rarely re-tested by NHTSA and IIHS due to the cost of the vehicles and the scale/cost of the required testing systems.

But as I said above, the standards do exist and automakers are expected to perform and document…

**...by NHTSA or the IIHS.

The FMVSS contain copious requirements for crashworthiness and crash survivability. We have a self-certification model for the FMVSS standards, where automakers and suppliers follow the test procedures laid out in the FMVSS and provide documentation of this to NHTSA before they can sell those…

I do currently have a ZDX and it works and looks great for me, a childless person who does not regularly get manicures.

I wont lie, I get genuine enjoyment out of watching people try to find the rear handles on my ZDX. It’s black so it’s extra hard.

It almost makes up for the shame I immediately feel when they then try to climb into the back seat. Love the damn car but the ergo all around is dogshit.

New here? They do these “poll the readers” questions pretty often. This site is a business and to stay IN business they need to drive clicks. While the writers work on “real” articles, it’s easy for them to foster a bit of genuine engagement with articles like this. The time it took to set this up has no real impact…

I’ll kick it off with maybe an unpopular opinion... I like those second-row door handles that disappear into the trim work. I find them surprisingly ergonomic and, when done well, keep the style lines really tight. Honda’s HRV and the Acura ZDX are the examples that immediately jump to mind but there are a bunch.

I think twitch is probably most worried about copycats and someone frying themselves on-stream trying to get famous. The “how long and how publicly would twitch host a dead/dying person before it got caught and stopped” is something that probably keeps twitch’s lawyers up at night.

Gosh you know, it feels like every time I’m faced with a sociopolitical issue, it always comes back to either income inequality or public transportation and safe/sustainable infrastructure.

Super weird, right? It couldn’t possibly be some sort of pattern and there’s definitely not any other countries that might prove…

Fundamentally, if I have to spend an extra 15 seconds getting a stupid finger-print sensor thing to let me drive my car in exchange for a meaningful reduction in the lives lost due to drunk driving, that’s great. I’ll take that deal.

In some ways, this is like when drinking and driving was first outlawed. A lot of…