As an automotive engineer, we love getting “real world” vehicles back for review. That’s why every automaker puts hundreds of thousands of real-world miles on pre-production vehicles. You can design a truck to survive something like this and you can conduct ingress tests, salt-spray tests, impact and debris tests, the…

If I was Rivian, I’d scramble to buy back that guys truck, or trade him for a Gen 2. Not only are there potentially valuable engineering learnings, but I’d be eager to avoid the PR nightmare of this thing bursting into flame in a week because of damage no one spotted.

And if there’s nothing wrong with it, you can get…

The OTHER moral to this story is that, if you lanesplit or ride the shoulder through traffic... maybe keep that shit to <15mph above the average pace of the traffic. You never know when a little brat will try to teach you a lesson.

Exactly, nobody got hurt- including myself. I was privileged to learn a very deep, valuable lesson and a great deal of humility without any real consequences. Very lucky, very formative. A single event that probably made me 20% less of a little entitled bastard, and certainly built some serious momentum in the right…

I’ve got a good one where I was both the instigator and 100% at fault. Let me explain...
For starters, I was 16 and had been driving for less than a year. I was a real shitass kid. Not only was I one of those little fucks that think they’re the paragon of wisdom and righteousness at 16, but I was also someone who…

I’ve seen it twice and heard about it. Phoenix area, so half of these people’s brains are heat-rotted like old plastic.
I suspect it’s something that started as a joke among people who knew better and got taken seriously by people who don’t.

I’ve seen it twice in Phoenix. Saw a Dodge Demon driver splash a couple quick trigger pulls onto the ground behind his car. Then, at a CostCo, I pulled up in time to hear the aftermath of someone in an S-class (maybe Maybach) arguing with the attendant about how “It’s a hundred degrees out, it’s already mostly…

Yeah I mean... I guess it at least doesn’t look like a Prius anymore?
But is that actually a good thing?

This thing looks like the ridiculous ride you lose to Big Mike in a pink-slip race at the beginning of a Need for Speed game’s story mode.

The people who really need to hear this are the asshats literally pouring gas onto the ground because they would rather commit environmental crimes than risk having a drop of low-octane swill touch their FiNe LuXuRy AuToMoBiLe

My old daily was a manual ‘05 Acura TSX. I loved how it drove and I was happy with its reliability, but it was totaled in late 2021 in an accident. My fiance and I were working on buying our first home so I wasn’t going to be able to finance a new car without affecting our pre-approval. Our mortgage broker told me I…

Negatory, captain. Rear side marker lights are red. White indicates direction of travel on the forward (or rear) face, but if you’re off to the side of the vehicle and can’t see the front (or rear) you can determine the orientation of the vehicle based on the color of the side marker lamps. FMVSS 108 Table I-a!

There are no regulations for side marker lamps on vehicles wider than 80 inches. The lamps you’re thinking of are clearance and identification lamps- the five lamps spaced 1-3-1 across the top front and top rear of commercial vehicles and oversized pickups.

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?