Came here for this. I have a 3 yr old child, and have never “buckled” him in. Two LATCH connectors when rearward facing, a third tether over the seatback when I switched him to forward facing.

Yeah, not even mentioning LATCH in the article as the basic solution to this is odd.

Use the Federally mandated LATCH system. Problem solved.

jalopnik is so crap these days.

West Texas Intermediate crude is $20 per barrel.

just hope you don’t run out of a charge in the middle of nowhere!

“eventually”

Also, we have to be regulated when it comes to modifying our cars, but these smoldering garbage barges are allowed to exist? Good fucking riddance.

These floating sewage barges/ocean trash generators should fail. I know people have short memories, but I wonder if they will be able to attract back lost business when this calms down. I never understood the thrill of being locked on one of these for days. Now I can’t imagine who would take the risks going forward. Th…

Build ships in non-US shipyards? Fuck you!

I’m genuinely surprised you can’t just go to a local VW dealer with the VIN and see if the recall service was performed.

As an owner of a Euro repair shop you need immediately replace the primary timing chain tensioner (will take you 3 hours if you're slow) and the oil separator on the valve cover or it will fail and destroy the rear main seal. Dealer parts on both! I can get you my discount and have drop shipped to you if you want.

But... I don’t use the touchscreen when I use Android Auto. I use the steering wheel controls.

Overall, this probably reinforces something we all suspected, but it shows that automakers need to take major strides in making car tech integration safer for everyone.

1. You’re publishing bad science (look at the method) from a charity whose mission is not collecting or analyzing facts but on an outcome by way of attention.

Usually I’ve seen his name with an exclamation point. He generally writes with coauthors Tony! and Toné!

Nor am I, this just seemed like a lazily-written article. Not trying to pick on a new writer here—other than this post I’m lovin’ what I’m seeing from Toni so far—but come on, you only have to apply a tiny bit of critical thinking to start seeing holes in the analysis.

I am by no means an Apple fan, but you’re 100% correct.

This headline seems pretty clickbaity, since there’s nothing here that says this problem is exclusive to Apple CarPlay rather than touchscreens in general. Why pick on Apple specifically, rather than use this as another rallying cry to bring dedicated, physical controls back to cars’ center consoles?

I’m doing my part to flatten the curve while leaning into the apex.