Yeah I saw this coming when they initially reported they were selling off most of the fleet. They took a database of the fleet, sorted “reported incidents” from most to least, and started selling in that order.

The only decent Teslas they have are the ones they aren’t selling, pretty much by definition.

It’s a joke. At the beginning of the article, wokeness was jokingly referenced with a link to the context. I’m getting Kinja’d trying to put a link in this comment, but the long-short of it is that conservatives with nothing better to do than to spin every single news story into justification for their BS beliefs are…

The first time it was mentioned it was hyperlinked to an article that would explain, but I’ll fill you in.
It’s a joking reference to the asinine conservative conspiracy theory that this accident happened because of DEI hiring practices or because of the new “woke” Infrastructure Act. That’s obviously ridiculous either…

Now, I’m pretty far away from the libertardian team but I am pretty staunchly anti-fascist and BOY does it frighten me whenever I here shit like “just blindly cooperate with law enforcement” because that’s a pretty short slide away from “if you aren’t doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about” and “just do…

The original ZDX didn’t do very well because it was a sporty, quirky CUV before that was trendy. The German brands would make it trendy right after the ZDX stopped production, putting Acura unfortunately a generation ahead of the market. It didn’t help that it was expensive with terrible visibility and no tow package…

As one of those 3 original ZDX owners, I was coming here specifically to comment about how I’m bummed they chickened out on the styling.
The joke with the original ZDX is that it stands for “Zero Demand eXpected”, but that was because it was odd looking, couldn’t tow or be fitted with a roof-rack, and had dogshit…

Has anyone ever studied the differences in radar profile of these harmless foam stand-ins versus the real deal, complete with dense metal, etc?

It’s telling to me that the performance of the tested vehicles is directly proportional to the amount the vehicle relies on computer vision for ADAS... the cars that rely most…

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…

2 square inches? What 2002-ass phone are you using? Explains the boomer-ass comment, you sound like my parents insisting I have paper maps in my car, which were never once used.

But if it helps, you can tap-hold, then move your finger up and down you can very quickly zoom in and out. I’ve never had trouble with…

The comparison is that the emissions from JUST residential households in the US is equivalent to the TOTAL (industrial, commercial, transportation, etc) of the largest country in the EU.

I think it’s still a relatively weak comparison and it speaks strongly to the fundamental issue I have with the article, which is…

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.