Must’ve been near Kansas City, at least if you were on the Interstate. And yeah, Springfield to Branson is nothing but up and down hills, even on (especially on?) US 65...

Try driving through Nebraska. Wouldn’t need autopilot if the roads were level and your car had a proper alignment.

they intentionally built those horizontally to allow rich acrophobes to buy the penthouses

It’s those deceptive ferrari lines! They’re so smooth. So seductive. You just want to rub your benz on them.

Same - took longer than I’m proud of to get the reference.

I valeted my ‘98 Cavalier a few times (currently at 251k miles, some rust on the doors - and at least one of the times, had a nice exhaust leak - also leaks gas a little. Good little car otherwise).

Oh you meant a horror story for me, not them.

I never knew that episode of Seinfeld was inspired by a true story. Remarkable.

To be fair, it was an Avalon. Probably blended into the parking spot.

I had given my e34 to a valet once, and when I got it back, it had the worst odor inside that you could imagine! Our eccentric neighbor told us that both my friend and I stank of it. Then he said he started to smell of it too. The odor seemed to attach itself to anyone who went in my car! I thought that the restaurant…

If you can maintain on three or four drinks, then have three or four drinks. The main keys are:

It doesn’t matter what autopilot on a commercial airline does. It only matters what consumers think it does. And Tesla knows what consumers think it means, and still labels and markets “autopilot” - because people will pay more money for autopilot than they would for “Lane Keeping Assist”. And they hope to escape…

I feel like that would solve a lot of problems, don’t you? I realize I’m not normal but when I buy a new products I read the instruction manual. It’s the rational thing to do I think.

Protip: Voodoo doughnuts are for tourists. Try either Blue Star or Pip’s original for the money-shot cream-filled doughnutty goodness.

Two way street, my friend. Manufacturers need to be better about giving realistic expectations for their products’ abilities, for sure. But in return, consumers need to start using their goddamn heads.

Maybe the problem lies more in the general public’s concept of the meaning of the word “autopilot.” When you think about it, the term “cruise control” could be pretty misleading as well, but people seem to have gotten a good grasp on what that means. Maybe in time this will normalize.

The problem is that Tesla is telling people that AFTER these problems arise. With a name like Autopilot, where the average person thinks it means that the system can control itself and handle these things, Tesla are at some fault for implying the system is more powerful than it really is.

Neutral: Does Social Media Engagement Help Sell Cars?

STFU Tesla. Go home. You're drunk. The other automakers don't seem to be making poorly designed and slapped together pieces of shit. Not trying? You have made most of your money selling credits, not on your cars. I see crap-loads more Nissan Leafs than Teslas on the road (sometimes on tow trucks, but still), and I…

Make some profits, then brag.

At-least the auto makers he’s calling out can make a profit.