Literally everything about the truck driver’s actions was unsafe and illegal. Every single bit of it. Fuck him and screw every one of you somehow trying to make it seem like the car is at fault.

People are too emotional on here and have never read an accident report in their lives. Victim-blaming is not a thing in accident investigations, but any action taken or not taken is fair game in deconstructing what happened and why. It’s not personal, and frankly if we want safer transportation, these issues must be…

I think in the world of accident investigation they might call the lack of turn signals a contributing factor. I read a lot of aviation accidents because I work in that field, and even if a pilot flies into a flock of seagulls and crashes, they will get hit with “a contributing factor was the pilot’s failure to see…

So the driver of the car should go 60 mph until he can do a handbrake turn into his driveway? I think you speed all the time and are looking to blame the car driver fully for this and pinning it on the blinker.

he said the truck driver was at fault, he also called out that the guy wasn’t using his blinkers. Which is also a problem.

the driver of the accord wasnt using his indicators. Not that it makes it alright to flew through a neighborhood like that.

Honestly, missing all of those features is a bonus to me. Instead of having to figure out how to turn them off in the infotainment settings I can just NOT have them in the first place? Fuck yeah!

Driving slow cars fast is so much more enjoyable than driving a fast car slow; that’s one reason I got rid of my M5. This is where Miatas excel. I have an Mr2 Spyder now. It only has 138hp, but its size, weight (2195lbs), gearing, and mid engine, rear wheel drive design make it a blast to drive through the mountains…

As for legitimately slow cars, a base Ford Fiesta. Team O’Neil has a huge fleet of them as their intro rally cars with minimum modification and they are hilarious to hoon around.

Besides, the nut behind the wheel is the biggest safety feature.  

At present the biggest issue (chips aside) for most automakers is getting the batteries. Until the supply chain for battery manufacturing really ramps up it’s doubtful anyone is going to be selling DIY “crate” batteries.

My landlord has a Jensen Healey project car with a dead motor, and I’ve often thought it would be a fun rear only hub motor conversion. It’s small, light, and given that it would be used for Sunday drives could probably get away with a 20 mile range. It’ll never see a track and needed a new suspension anyways, so it…

To fit into a V8 shaped hole. 

I love the idea of an electric crate engine program, but the motor was never the tricky bit

Finally, a good use for an old Miata with one of these:

OK, I have an electric motor. Need battery pack (where?) and other electrical doodads, where?

I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. It seems to either be that Subaru hasn’t put the resources towards engineering these features for MT cars, or they think that there won’t be enough MT buyers that are interested in them.

While I initially thought I’d appreciate knowing the pressure in each tire, it occurred to me that having to reprogram the position of the tires every time I rotated them would be a pain in the ass. Probably more so than being told one of them is low and having to check the pressures manually in the rare event that…

I think maybe they just realized that anyone driving a small, darty, manual sports car doesn’t actually need any of that crap because they’ll be paying attention to their driving.

And I for one love it this way. This is a driver’s car. A driver is engaged in the experience, not texting, eating and facebooking while driving.