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Staff Writer at Jalopnik, learning pilot and does bus stuff. Smart Fortwo (x4), Honda Beat, Suzuki Every, VW Touareg V10, Passat TDI, Jetta TDI, Audi TT, Buell Lightning, Triumph Tiger, Genuine Stella

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Even the 48V architecture has been around for quite a while. There was a push among the SAE to implement it well over a decade ago. I’ll give Tesla credit for being the first to implement it into a production vehicle.
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You can’t reach into the bed from the side. The tailgate doesn’t close automatically. The windshield is absurdly flat and large so the big windshield wiper fails. The pedals fall off until you bolt them back on. The unpainted stainless is so hard to clean that half of buyers are wrapping the vehicle. The door handles Read more

Steering issues, accelerator pedal recall, ride issues, wiper issues, and having to “wash” my vehicle with isopropyl alcohol to name only a few off the top of my head. I won’t even get into the issues of people getting hurt on the sharp edges or unnecessary cost cutting measures that make a $100K vehicle feel cheap as Read more

I can’t help you if you haven’t been following along. As someone who’s deeply embedded in the industry and works with all the OEMs for over 25 years, I’ll just stand by my words. However, most of what I’m referring to has been discussed on this website along with many other media and social media outlets.
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I would trust a Fisker Ocean (no long on sale) or even a VinFast before taking a Cybertruck on the road.” Read more

None of the features you mentioned (except for maybe the voltage) are unique in any way and are technologies that have been around for a decade or more. The steer-by-wire is not the first, but is apparently the first without a mechanical fail-safe. So the Cybertruck IS the best at deleting practical engineering and Read more

Design opinions aside, it’s the worst engineered vehicle on sale in the US today. I would trust a Fisker Ocean (no long on sale) or even a VinFast before taking a Cybertruck on the road.
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cancer has an unpredictable course and treatment itself only offers odds, not guarantees Read more

As a cancer survivor I would like to say fuck this bullshit, if you’ve gone through this stuff you’ve likely seen the graphs of remission and recurrence rates for your special beast out to 5 years or so at least. You know there is always a chance and if Stage IV those odds tend to not be as much in your favor. It Read more

1000000%. If you can afford first-class tickets, you can afford a Xanax prescription so you can ... *checks notes* tolerate a flight without your cancer coming back. (What a shitty thing to allege.) Read more

I smell privilege. Flying around in first class with your “emotional support animal” all while still receiving cancer treatment, is definitely a 1%er problem. 
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ROFL! Unless that dog is an actual, documented service animal, she hasn’t a leg to stand on. And her cancer came back because she was away from her fur baby for a minute? Uh no dear, that’s not how that works at all. The sad part is JetBlue will probably give this wingnut some settlement money to go away. Read more

He was probably suffering from near terminal boredom. It drove him to doing this. Read more

My thoughts exactly. Hi, Mercedes! Read more