Yeah, I can’t wait to have to “top off” the Tesla to avoid a surcharge before dropping it off. You and 20 other Hertz customers will be trying to do it at the same time with 5 charging stations near the airport before the AM flights leave.

The funny thing is that on the concept Continentals they put a reflective strip along the bottom to make the panel appear shorter, and everybody raved about how the car looked. Then the production models didn’t have it.

Lots of people jumping in here about affluenza or whiteness getting him off when it appears to be a matter of legality.

If you’re old enough/judged responsible enough to drive a vehicle on public roads, you’re old enough/responsible enough to face adult charges for vehicular crimes.

Makes sense, one less product launch to fuck up.

Being sorry means you’ll try not to fuck up again and work to make things right with the customer you screwed over, abandoned, sent through emotional turmoil dealing with the fallout, then misled and ignored for weeks while he tried to make you address this wrong. They didn’t compensate him for his time and stress, it…

How does a new record of rental not immediately supersede any record of it being stolen? If you rented it, it was either never stolen, or it had been successfully recovered. These are two databases that should be connected. If you can rent it, it is in your inventory. If it is in your inventory, it is not missing.

A coupon? This isn’t fucking Food Lion. And “administrative error” is corporate speak for, “a former employee totally fucked you over, but we are trying to win your good graces again”....

That is the dumbest thing I have read in quite some time. For one. My car is my property and I have the right not to wear the seatbelt. A second issue is I have a porta-cath in my chest that makes it impossible no matter what attachment being used to have a shoulder belt across my chest. If I was to be involved in an…

Safety was a side effect. If they lost money as a result the insurance companies would have not backed it. The statement was about the motive, not the result.

In short, Hell no.  A seat belt saved my life during a major accident when I was 17, and I have not ridden in a car without one since.  But there is no way under God’s Green Earth that I will purchase a vehicle that includes this device.  You can tell GM that, and your editorial policy is simply wrong.

Unpopular opinion but here it goes.

In theory, yes that is how insurance works.  In practice, not a fucking chance.  You really think the insurance companies are just gonna start taking less of your money after you’ve been paying it to them no problem for decades?  There’s a higher likelihood that Jalopnik goes back to being an automotive enthusiast…

I don’t care if people die because they don’t wear a seatbelt. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Jalopnik is down with the nanny state. Shocker.

as someone that wears a seatbelt religiously this is STUPID. legislating good behavior always was and is dystopian. literally personal responsibility with zero risk to anyone else

Cue another opportunity for the aftermarket to get rid of this feature and get paid doing so.

As a car salesman, this will be super annoying when moving cars around the lot. Also, ZERO chance this won’t break and cause a service nightmare.  Everyone else has stated the positives. I don’t really care what people do in their cars. Want to be an idiot and take the risk; be my guest. Same goes for helmets.

Clearly you’re not from Detroit. All that would do is create a “Dominance Lane”.  Hope you like playing chicken.

Michigan is a “no fault” insurance state. Amazingly, the guy who got hit will have to use his own insurance to repair the car, and for his injuries.