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WOW! Glad you were OK. Seeing that the Veedub, in your eyes, is no longer a flawless piece of mastery, and you seem to never be tied down to any vehicle, then that Audi should be something you should be looking at. It aint far off to what the GTI is in performance and driving characteristics.

I dont know... But that is a yucky thought... And I was a voyeur once upon a time ago...when I was young and horny and stupid and I did not think about things like human fluids possibly being tainted with a disease of some sort...

Ive said that before... With UBER... Rental car agencies CLEAN their cars BEFORE handing the keys to the next client... The busses remain disgusting all day and get cleaned up at night...and that is with a SMALL subset of users... How will UBER type companies deal with shyte when EVERYBODY will be using these pods? How many more spare pods will they have for replacing the dirty ones...the ones that JUST broke-down due to a flat tire or computer malfunction, etc? AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!

We are on the same page... Again..the way Lutz explains it...UBER type companies will be in control... Will THEY be performing repair and overhaul duties as scheduled? In the airplane world...laws are put into place to ENSURE repair and overhaul schedules are respected...and even then...some aircraft are flown questionably...a lot less in North America and Europe as compared to some 3rd world Airline fliers...but it happens here too... Lest not forget that in the airplane industry...its VERY CLOSELY MONITORED... In the trucking industry...where I think will closely resemble how things will REALLY work with the autonomous thingy..much is left to be desired...

When a car has an issue of some sort...how many hours does it sit in the garage decommissioned before it gets repaired? How long is it gonna take this bus to get back to work? How long before this plane flies the peeps around again? Remember...repair and overhaul for these autonomous pods will be crucial to OUR safety...these are gonna be machines...driven DAILY with hundreds of miles on them NON-STOP DAILY...accumulating HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MILES WEEKLY BECAUSE WHOLE POPULATIONS (so the saying goes) WILL BE USING THEM BECAUSE NO OTHER CHOICES... And I suppose these centers wont be needed any more...for lubrication or systems check-ups and repairs and the like...

All those are closed circuits. Even airplanes flying freely into the vast sky... Aircraft are flown with a very precise mapping system where the sky is a grid and computers use calculated vectors to get to their PRE-DETERMINED destination THAT WAS PRE-DETERMINED A LOOOOONG TIME AGO. Driving from point A to B is MOST of the time pre-determined too...but...humans also like to do things on a whim...driving to point C and D and F and then Z back to point C and THEN to Point B is a calculation that will NEVER be calculated fast enough because humans CHANGE THEIR MINDS INSTANTLY!!! Throw in Mother Nature and well...autonomous driving in an OPEN circuit is an IMPOSSIBILITY no matter HOW much smarter A.I.will be than humans as HUMANS CHANGE THEIR MINDS ON A WHIM AND CHANGE THEIR PLANS...NOW!!! Silicon Valley forgets that humans has this trait called....FREE WILL. THAT is what defines us...

Its easy...right? Farming machines are being tested to be autonomous as we speak... The snow plows and trucks to get the snow and ice off the streets will ALSO be autonomous ALONGSIDE the autonomous cars, right? IN A SNOW STORM...what happens? All kinds of problems with THAT scenario that I dont have the energy to state... When roads freeze up WITHOUT any kind of storm...what happens then? Does the guvment call off ALL the pods OFF the road to de-ice ALL the streets? Because...mother nature is a lot more powerful than anybody I know...so...how does the economic body that will control autonomous cars will cope with NOBODY being driven meaning NO MONIES ARE BEING MADE... The way LUTZ describes this future...UBER type companies will control this... Will UBER type companies allow for no profits being made? If they do allow the peeps to move around...THERE WILL BE ACCIDENTS...HOW BIG WILL THE LAWSUITS BE? WILL PEOPLE ACCEPT BEING SHUT DOWN AND NOT BE DRIVEN? Yeah...UTOPIA!!! Yup! And like I ranted...when you throw snow and ice and extreme weather into the mix... Artificial intelligence or not...its still a machine...and machines break down MORE OFTEN than humans do...

Well...for me...his claim to fame was this: Not that I dont agree with you or anybody else in this thread regarding the autonomous driving car thing. Ill go a step further and say...AUTONOMOUS DRIVING CARS WILL NEVER BE A THING! Insurances could try to push this forward...but I dont see how, even A.I., could possibly AVOID disaster... We all talk about rural areas being an issue for the US...and Canada too...Winnipeg is a s rural as a CITY can get...hell...even Calgary and Edmonton for that matter... But...as I mention these Northern Canadian Cities... In Canada (Canadian Cities)...as well as Minneapolis, Chicago, Berlin, Moscow and the like... we all have to deal with EXTREME COLD TEMPERATURES AND ICE AND FREEZING THAWING AND RUST!!! (RUSTING due to MANY factors and SENSOR AND COMPUTER BREAK DOWNS (electric connector failures and the like) DUE TO THE EXTREME COLD WEATHER RENDERING EVEN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE USELESS due to the fact that these "pods" are ALWAYS GONNA BE OUTSIDE...and so forth and so forth) *SIGH* Utopia... Yeah right!!!

@A Horse With No Name All these jokes were HILARIOUS! THANKS for posting them! This one though... I will NEVER understand why Americans think Canadians are polite... I get that this is a joke...but jokes usually are funny by the element of truth they hide in them. Some of you folk find this hilarious because riots are RAGE fueled and this supposed Canadian lady is tad upset...adding to the legend that Canucks are polite and hilarity and tons of laughs follow suit. I find that pic hilarious because as a Canadian...I know its as far away as possible to truth that one could get. I see that as SARCASTIC humour... This was a common practice in the NHL all throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. The NHL is STILL dominated by Canadian born players, but not like in the 1970s and 1980s. Anyway...I chose 2 Canadian teams two show you what it is I am talking about. Then we have actual riots...hockey related(some of it politically fueled) and rock concert related... We are NOT a quiet lot...nor are we THAT polite...so...that pic is hilarious to me, albeit NOT the way some might think.

Good. Nothing has changed. The plebeian Golfs come from Mexico and the performance ones from Germany chalking up the electric one in the German column while we are it.

I thought the Golf was hecho en Mexico. I know that was true way back when. And when that was true, the VR6 variant was made in Deutschland. Interesting to know what has happened between then (the 1990s) and now...

I am quietly rejoicing inside. OK...not so quietly... One crossover gone and done. The death of the crossover has to start somewhere...hopefully this is a start! (I aint holding my breath though)

I love chocolate too! New York style strawberry cheesecake is another way I go. Hope you had a great birthday, Drew!

I still have the "loading" problem too. Like CCAP, I just click on the reload/refresh icon thingy and the page loads properly and instantly.

Now where is MY piece of YOUR birthday cake???!!!

You sure you wanna open that Pandora's box, tho? Greek mythology... yes... myths... Not to be taken so bloody literal...there is a message to be learned in these Greek myths... Read the lyrics in this song... released in 1969... all that in the song is happening now...the songwriter did not have to wait THAT long for all THAT to happen...just a mere 45 years... Just a thought...

You could always lean on me for advice...

THESE...belong in here!!!

British Invasion And from Down Under Black may not be boring! Depending on the vehicle...but it is a colour that is overplayed. I wanted a black Acura and a black Ford though... DONT BUY IT AT NIGHT! YOU MIGHT END UP WITH A BLACK CAR THINKING IT WAS RED, GOLD OR GREEN! Black cars are Karma Chameleons!!! But they look better in the shade!!! Montreal's own Gino Vanelli!

Charcoal black. So in between yucky grey and boring black. Double whammy! And the wife's Fusion is Tuxedo black. So....I am part of the problem... When I bought the Acura: 1. Acura did not really offer great colours. And "fun" colours did not really hide the hideousness that is the TL. In black or charcoal, the car at least looks mean and stealthy instead of retarded. LOL 2. Bought the showroom floor model they had. Got a great deal on it. Usually, that is how I buy my cars. That is all they had that night available.

I find that its awesome that Dodge continues to offer crazy colours. I wish others would follow suit. But maybe its because people are drab nowadays and only want yuckie silvers and grays. Boring and safe white and black. Its a tad disappointing...

Fossil fuels prevents sexual assault? However...I do like my fossil fuels, my music and my women ENSEMBLE!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm... Ive seen this before. Cadillac ELR revisited? Chevy and GM just best leave the EV coupes alone and concentrate on giving the people an EV they actually want, need and desire. And they dont need an online website/survey to "gather data" either! All they have to do is see how many Tesla Model 3s are on pre-order and just copy THAT formula...

This paragraph is what got the +1 from me. What makes this frustrating for me when discussing EVs is that sheeple,yes sheeple, KNOWINGLY they WONT get their Model 3 in this decade STILL line-up for one. 500 000 plus pre-orders...there is a Chevy Bolt for sale and ready for delivery as of NOW! And then the OTHER frustrating thing for me is when people argue the fact that not too many consumers want an EV... WHAT?! 500 000 pre-orders and still growing on an EV that is nowhere near to be delivered any time soon. 500 000 pre-orders. Plus the other 100 000/year that buy the Model S...an EV that is fast becoming DATED! Its on sale now for 5 years...and still the best damned EV from ANY manufacturer. GM, Ford, Toyota, Mercedes...ALL OF THEM...dragging their feet. MAYBE THE BOLT IS NOT SELLING LIKE A MODEL 3 BECAUSE PEOPLE SEE GM IS DRAGGING THEIR FEET AND THEY ARE SAYING...."PHOQUE GM! ILL WAIT FOR TESLA!" Maybe when GM and Mercedes finally gives the people those 20 LEGIT AND PROPER EVs promised by 2020 or something like that, THAT COMPARE TO A MODEL S OR MODEL 3 in terms of range, SPACE and OK looks is when Tesla bites the dust! For now...maybe...alls people are seeing is an oil corrupted auto industry still in denial...

The ONLY thing I enjoyed from him was this commercial he did with the Camaro. I still get a giggle from it! The song, knowing that this car is targeting the Devilish trio from Mopar. The dark scene. The burn out. It hits all my rock-n-roll and muscle car buttons! Ive used Hennessey performance cars in the past helping me present my arguments, not as a testament to his abilities...but as a testament as how easily V8 engines could be modded to achieve great performance.