pgeorge
Patrick George
pgeorge
Editor-in-Chief @ Jalopnik, 2015-2019.

My last 2 trips to Minneapolis I rented the EXACT SAME Nissan Altima! My phone knew the bluetooth and my radio presets were still there. Read more

Black Pearl > Black Gold

The black and gold look would look fantastic on my Versa.

It’s fascinating to think about how a firefighting robot was used to save an 800 year old church. Just think about everything this church has seen throughout the years, basically all of modern human history. That robot was remotely piloted into that hall where Kings, Queens, and Knights of the middle ages once stood. Read more

I wanted to slam my head against the table when the commander-in-cheeto was tweeting about using firefighting drop-planes to fight the blaze. You don’t need my 8 years as a firefighter to have the common sense to realize what kind of damage that much mass does to a structure. Not to mention, there is a reason why you Read more

I love that these still use lots of old Volvo switches. If you’re gonna do the parts bin thing, there are much worse bins to pull from. Those swedes can make a switch. Read more

Jalopnik Community Hivemind Car-Buying Rules: Read more

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... maybe he doesn't want the blood on his hands/hood? Read more

Thank you for the correction. I was about to pull a Hulk Hogan on Jalopnik for that heresy. Read more

A British energy drink founded in Croatia made in Austria recently released in US and UK which can’t really be purchased with, questionable financing, leadership, and history backing an American F1 Team run by an Italian with cars driven by French/Swiss and Danish drivers. Read more

I was thinking it was more like VR. VR was a huge marketing thing in the ‘90s and now that the tech is there you are starting to see it become kind of a mainstream thing instead of a curiosity. I have a feeling that the same thing will probably happen with Autonomous cars. The hype will die down and a few companies Read more

Nobody fucking knows. Even the insiders don’t know. If you talk to level-headed people in the industry, they’ll tell you that the current approach of tying together a multitude of machine learning systems is hitting a ceiling. When we’ll break through that ceiling is a matter of discovery, and you can’t predict Read more

Thank you for everything you’ve done for this site. I appreciate it! I hope you carry on being cromulent at your next job.  Read more

You deserve an actual trophy for having put up with the monkeys running around Jalopnik as long as you did! And I say that with all due affection for actual monkeys. Read more