In case anyone feels like they heard this song before but at a different pitch and speed, it was used in a vaporwave song called “INDIGO PLATEAU!” by Maitro featuring scenes from the Riding Bean OVA.

If given the opportunity, humans are lazy.
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You absolutely know it would happen. Drunk people making AV trips to the liquor store. Stoners making AV trips to pick up Taco Bell/Cheetos. Read more

Or, as David King, a researcher at Arizona State University, succinctly put it, “now’s the time to tax the robots.”

Interesting read. Read more

I can envision a future where my autonomous blob goes about my child shuffling errands while I go out and hoon my old 911 in the country effectively doubling my VMT at that point in time.  So study checks out.   Read more

I’m glad someone’s trying to put numbers to this. It’s just obvious IMHO. I hadn’t even considered the zombie rides but if you don’t have to actually drive the car, your tolerance for being in it (where you’re now able to do other things) is likely to increase and so will your miles driven. Read more

It’ll make more sense once Ford has unveiled the Mach-S, Mach-X, and Mach-Y. And then Elon can choke on his having to spell his ‘S3XY’ with a 3 instead of E... Read more

Not covered is the “how do i get better at driving” question. Read more

Ballaban, WTF is wrong with you man? That’s two solid takes today.

I’m losing faith here. Read more

While Matt Damon seems to have done a pretty terrific portraying Shelby in all the Youtube video I’ve seen (a lot.), and seems to have a good chemistry with Christian Bale, I can’t be the only one who thinks the perfect casting for Shelby would’ve been Matthew McConaughey.- being a charming huckster is in his DNA. Read more

This is so fucking good. Don't ever Stick To Cars. Read more

Thank you for not “sticking to cars” (though this is car-adjacent) - this is important stuff that needs to be said. Read more

If petroleum isn’t relevant to a car website I don’t know what is. Read more

Thank you Aaron. This is like what David Roth would write for Deadspin (RIP!) but for Jalopnik. Read more

Goodness gracious Gordon. This is the writing I come here for. Read more

How about the mistake of buying a series of websites and then somehow through complete incompetence and malice flushed their popularity down the toilet? Read more

“Whoopsie-doodle, I just gave tacit approval to state-sanctioned slaughter of journalists! Boy is my face red! I never would’ve done that! It was just spur-of-the-moment, you know how it is! You agree to sit down for an interview, meet with your legal counsel before hand to cover topics that you’d have to be a… Read more

Crime. Its their code word for crime. These people are killers and thieves who have economically enthralled the political elite (legislators) in their countries of operation and as a result will never serve the sentence for their crimes. Read more