The original Karma could have been a success, if it hadn’t had relatively terrible fuel economy and build quality for S-Class money. Seriously, C/D got like 19 mpg out of the GM Ecotec that was used as the generator.

It’s doubtlessly the best-looking Japanese car on the market right now. Nothing from Lexus or Acura comes close.

In fairness, it’s probably safe to assume walking into a Subway that at least one of your favored ingredients will be out of stock. I literally have never set foot in a well run Subway.

Are you telling me the X4 M40i isn’t slower and worse handling than a 340i?

I love that the Europeans have such a great sense of humor about stuff like this. If the situation was reversed, we Americans would have had the heckler thrown out.

We have found golf’s Jeremy Clarkson.

I know it’s too small a sample size. I’m not saying I believe they aren’t or won’t be safe enough; I’m saying that’s what the average consumer believes because all they’ve heard about autonomous cars is that Tesla has this thing called Autopilot and people died using it.

Yes, and I know that. What I’m saying is that to get past public consciousness of autonomous car deaths, they’ll have to prove themselves as being safer.

Was going to say the same thing.

No one needs to answer my post; this did the trick.

How did Adam Carolla get so rich? The only works of his I can name are The Guy Show and “some failed car show I read about in C/D.” Do his podcasts and appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s roast really pay that well?

Your argument assumes that all human drivers are good, smooth drivers, but the majority aren’t. And playing music is not analogous to driving. I see your point, but we are way too early to make any kind of assumptions about how much the experience will improve by the time autonomous cars are mainstream.

I would sell rights to my future children for the E36/5, E46 wagon, or - I know it’s not an M3 - a Z3 M Coupe.

This is like saying early cars would never catch on because they were slower than horses.

Neutral: Make them safe. You can’t talk to people about how much safer autonomous cars will be until you’re blue in the face, but they won’t believe it until they experience it, or at least have seen enough evidence to believe it. Right now, the most people have heard of autonomous cars is about people being killed by…

I guess I have to reread LOTR now. Thanks.

The music in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies is pretty outstanding too, and Zimmer did that as well. Particularly near the end of the first one, where time is running out before the gas is released, and the brass section is playing a slower, deeper imitation of the toll of a clock tower bell.

Modern Country is, without a doubt, the worst of all genres. It’s so disingenuous and generic, it’s sickening. Ever seen Bo Burnham’s Make Happy routine? He does a satirical country song, and while listening to Zac Brown Band’s Chicken Fried (not by choice) the other day, I realized it is literally the same.

I could have one of the titles wrong, but the music in Gladiator and Pirates of the Caribbean is nearly identical. Could it be Hans is running out of ideas?

(White suburban kids, myself included, were obsessed with hip-hop. We were posers of the worst kind at the time).