It also includes “End to End” on highways, which isn’t worrying at all.

Yeah. All fair. He wasn’t really a snake-oil salesman, in the sense that they don’t really believe the bullshit they’re peddling.

Man I just spent a ton of time in Southern California around the beach cities - didn’t see Prius’ as any sort of stand out. Just tons of them - everywhere. Almost got smoked by a Tesla 3 though - I thought they were supposed to see pedestrians, and stuff.

The fact that he took himself out is the only thing I find surprising. Usually these people are at least a little self-aware and avoid putting themselves in any real danger.  He clearly also bought the bullshit he was peddling - because he made a number of dives in that death trap.

Around here Prius’ are driven just like every other car on the road.  not sure where you’re getting your experience from - but it’s completely at odds with what I’ve seen.

I mean - the dude clearly lived his life avoiding responsibility, and finding the easiest and cheapest way around any problem he faced. Shouldn’t be surprising that he’d naturally go to bribing an official if he didn’t get his way.

There’s a difference between enjoying a car, and having a car that’s objectively good as a ‘car’. If you like a car with ‘soul’ (whatever that means to you), that’s great, and you should buy those cars. But to say cars are becoming ‘worse’ - in any objective sense is just wrong.

Sure we do, and I never said we didn’t.

Came here to say exactly this - they missed the hot hatchback. But included an Ioniq 5 (which, while a really cool car, is not really what this list is all about).

You seem to have mistaken “modern car” with “gigantic SUV”.

Sure, tall hoods are worse for pedestrian safety, but not all new cars have tall hoods. And I know some new cars - certainly Volvo - designs cars specifically to account for accidents with pedestrians. It’s one thing to say new, giant, SUVs and pick ups are bad for pedestrian safety - but that’s not the same as all…

Cars have always been a commodity.  And certainly a mass produced one for the last 120 years.

How does that make him right? A car having “soul” doesn’t make it better. You might like it more. It might be more fun to drive. You might even spend a lot of money on it. But those are hardly realistic metrics for quality. 

My ex’s Dad had one of those - but the wagon, with a massive CB antennae on it. Drove all over Southern Ontario in it listening to lectures about how great cottage country is, and why the GTA is the ‘real Canada’. To this day seeing one triggers what one might call an emotional response.  Fortunately not many remain.

But he wasn’t really saying that right? He seems to be saying it ‘wasn’t ready’, or that it wasn’t (yet) working like it should or that he didn’t trust the operations crew. It doesn’t sound like he felt there was a fundamental design flaw that would inevitably lead to the subs destruction and that the thing should…

I’m genuinely kind of surprised that:

Someone needs to take about a hundred of these to some small south Pacific Island and arrange them in lines to really confuse archaeologists 500 years from now.

Interactivity with your readership isn’t a bad thing - and there are new articles uploaded all the time, too. in terms of formatting, I guess you could just have one long list that requires scrolling, but I’m not sure I’d find that any more useable than clicking.

I mean, he keeps calling with driver assist package “Full Self Driving”, or whatever. So, it shouldn’t be surprising.

I don’t understand the dislike for slideshows.  How did these people manage when you had to turn actual pages?