Those places need to both exist, and be sufficiently large markets to matter. California is a large enough market to matter.

I’m not particularly surprised that AV testing produced some errors, some of which resulted in fatalities. That is unfortunate, but probably unavoidable. It is no reason to stop developing this technology.

If you are good company A and want your car to hit 50mpg goal, you may have a bit of a pickle on your hands. Say hitting that goal will cost an additional $5k per car. Evil company B has no intention of hitting that goal, and so their cars will be cheaper. This could get them more sales, increasing their volume and…

“The plea came in a May 3 letter to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the industry’s leading trade group. It said carmakers “strongly support” continued alignment between federal mileage standards and those set by California.”

“The plea came in a May 3 letter to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget from the Alliance of…

200 miles if you take it very easy on the throttle. 120 or so if you don’t. About 70 at track conditions.

Because people are already candy crushing at the wheel, and autonomous cars are about the only way to make them not kill people in the process.

Some marketing genius will find a way to call it a V8 (since it has 8 valves, or 8 intake valves if its 4v/cyl), slap that badge on it, and everyone will be happy.

That leaves to a vagueness and abruptness when the conventional brakes kick in, which makes the brake pedal behave somewhat unpredictably, and certainly not linearly. Which in turn makes it difficult to modulate the brake.

This is clearly true, as there has never been an inattentive driver in a car not equipped with such a system.

That’s why you need to have a taller suv than him

All these rules that are supposed to make things cheaper result in the teams spending their money on lawyers instead of engineers.

13.5k is the US average. It’s not that big of a difference

The trumpistas are quickly chasing those out.

They’ll vote for him because having trump be president pisses off the people they don’t like. At the end that’s the most important thing to them.

“Foreigners are bad” seems to be catching on

It will cost thousands a year in maitanance alone, and multiples of that in repairs. I bet those costs will exceed asking price in 2-3 years. That’s not a deal, it’s a trap. Run far, far away.

Look, if the manufacturer says a service should take 1. 6hrs and an experienced tech performs it in 1.4, then I agree no harm done. By if a tech does the job in 11 minutes then something is shady. Either the tech did not perform anything near the entire service (thereby defrauding the customer) or the manufacturer…

From all the motor and non motor cyclists out there, I say eff those guys.

Agreed, the biggest problem seems to be with the system that should have seen the obstacle and came to a stop, rather than the one that followed the line.

So the autopilot is following the more visible, but wrong line. Makes sense, and the highway dept should paint their lines better.