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Ryan Felton
ryanfelton13
Senior Reporter, Jalopnik/Special Projects Desk

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Apparently the driver had previously complained to family and Tesla about auto-pilot’s handling of that very location. Read more

RICs are so pervasive. My father used to work in Capital One’s Indirect Lending department...essentially their RIC “approval” department. This is how dealers finance vehicles.

Now you guys see why I use to post those people with bad loans. This is sad though and falls on both the dealer and the customer. Those dealer tactics though, they should be shut down. Seriously. Read more

Well this is depressing as hell! And don’t look at those numbers in that spreadsheet too close or you might start bleeding out your nose! Who in the hell bought a $38k car at 17% for 72 months!!! That is like $23k in interest!!!
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Bill de Blasio needs to crush these predators like a groundhog into the pavement. He needs to burn them down like an F-train subway car. Read more

I already know it’s going to come up, but just because you’re more conniving and underhanded than the average individual, and you’re willing to take advantage of someone not as clever or thorough or as smart as you does not mean it’s OKAY to take advantage of people. Just like there should be laws to stop strong Read more

I cant believe 80% of people use dealers for financing. I use my credit union, they always beat the dealer’s advertised best rates by quite a large margin. Read more

A Cavalier, exactly in that bluish green, greenish blue color, was the first car I ever rented in the US, 2 or 3 days after setting foot here to never leave... I thought it looked really cool and even futuristic (and I still think the design is great for a compact US car of that era, much prettier than its sister Read more

I knew so many people throughout college that drove Cavaliers and every time I rode in one I thought “God, what a piece of shit,” which was rich coming from a guy who drove a ‘93 Nissan Sentra. That said, Cavaliers always were and forever will be pieces of shit that are cobbled together in to a larger lump of Read more

“It’s a sport trim for the RS 5, but the same specs. Audi says it’ll be on sale in the second half of this year. .” Read more

The first car that was truly mine (as in I bought it myself) was an 89 Tercel... I don’t have a picture of it, but miraculously found a picture of one with very similar crazy wheels on it, which the previous owner put on it and basically added about 50% to the price of the shitty car. Mine was maroon and looked like

I had a ‘94 Vauxhall Cavalier for a while. Prettier than the Chevy version IMO, but also complete shit (well, in its base form, which is what I had). Oh, and this isn’t my actual car either....

I put ~100,000 miles on a cavalier in 3 years in college. List of things that broke: Read more

Justin Westbrook’s out doing New York auto show stuff, so you’re stuck with me. And by me, I mean it’s me, Ryan Felton. Pictured here is a 1996 Chevy Cavalier. I didn’t own this particular one, but I’m showing you it because a ‘96 Cavalier was my first car. It was red, complete shit, but I loved it dearly. Anyway.
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Please re-read the article. Other companies use 2 people so that the safety driver can keep their attention on the road while the engineer can validate that what the sensors see match what’s happening on the road and logging any issues. If there is only one operator, such as in Uber’s case, are they also responsible Read more

If her job was to monitor as well as drive, Uber should be held at fault. That’s basically mandating distracted driving. If she was playing with Facebook though, that’s on her. Read more

So let’s do this old school. All autonomous cars shall henceforth be required to have a man marching in front of the car waving a red flag.