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Double dipping, NHTSA providing prizes for police to write tickets {Autoblog}
Dec 8th 2007 5:53PM Boycott Borla and Chrysler, I'm sure they lobbied for this to get some sales at all of our expense.
Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy {Autoblog}
Nov 1st 2007 4:02PM "And best of all we can go back to drinking and driving again, since we really won't be driving!" -Wait, were we not supposed to be doing that anymore?
Anyway, before anyone craps themselves I'm just joking. Still, both the litigious and tough law and order factions of society are going to prevent most of the benefits that McElroy mentions.
Cars will be able to fully drive themselves in the future, I have no doubt. They already have adaptive cruise control and, on certain models, can parallel park.
However, even in the future I am sure that we still require a fully licensed, not under any influence, adult behind the wheel just in case. Cars won't be able to play nanny, designated driver, elderly chuffer or valet, at lest legally.
This will be huge for the military, and it will significantly reduce the danger of elderly/drunk/cell distracted people that are on the road.
$4.5 million awarded in Porsche Carrera GT case {Autoblog}
Oct 24th 2007 1:56PM Here is what the skank looks like:
http://www.ameraway.com/coreyrudl.htm
He made his money selling get rich quick schemes to invalids, and she, with this settlement, she has gone on to make money by even less legitimate means.
$4.5 million awarded in Porsche Carrera GT case {Autoblog}
Oct 24th 2007 1:43PM Oops, it says settlement, not verdict. Hopefully the golddigger's purse dog kills her in her sleep.
$4.5 million awarded in Porsche Carrera GT case {Autoblog}
Oct 24th 2007 1:39PM Poor worthless trophy whore, she thought she had it all lined up but then he went and died on her. At least it will be worth it for the track owners to appeal.
"How about we alienate our fans?" - Ford takes a page from the RIAA playbook {Autoblog}
Oct 12th 2007 11:08AM ". . . when the trade of currency is involved, civil law is broken." - Leave the legalese to actual lawyers. FYI trademark law is both civil and criminal and violation of it does not require the exchange of money.
That said, going after a calendar that raises a couple hundred a year for an enthusiast (of your product) club is beyond stupid.
This happened because an overzealous lawyer at a firm retained by Ford wanted to get some additional billing in by charging the hours taken to write this shake down letter.
GALLERY: GM's future interior designs {Autoblog}
Aug 30th 2007 11:40AM I like most of the new GM interiors, but these concepts have me a bit worried, the center stacks and guage clusters are way too gadgety and overstyled, kind of like the 'vette/Pontiac interiors in the '80s. Material quality is key, otherwise KISS (although I guess a lot of buttons is probably better than I-drive).
If you make the scetch notes large enough to read they're pretty funny, the key fob concept talks about Knight Rider.
Edwards: Americans need to give up their SUVs {Autoblog}
Aug 29th 2007 2:22PM Both parties want to regulate people's freedom to do things and participate in transactions that they don't agree with, and both parties are hypocritical with their own actions. Edwards and Gore hate SUVs but live in big houses, and Republicans hate sex education, contraceptives, any kind of porn and gay rights but solicit gay sex in public restrooms (look up Bob Allen and Larry Craig).
Teen trades first unlocked iPhone for Nissan 350Z {Autoblog}
Aug 28th 2007 1:36PM Retrofitting a vehicle IS the same thing, just like using non-OEM printer cartridges is. When you own something you can do whatever you want to it, since the beginning of the British common law system that the US inherited that is how property has worked.
Very large corporations that have bought and sold politicians to pass horrible legislation like DCMA may have changed what the law technically is, but with no right to do so (by the way, as of now there is an exception in the DMCA for what the kid did).
If cell phones sold in a competitive market and cell service sold in a competitive market phones and service would be much cheaper (and cell service would be much better), but AT&T and other large companies have mind f*cked millions of sheep into believing that their monopolistic behavior is the only way that phones can be affordable.
Using your logic cars and gas would be a lot cheaper if you had to buy your car from the oil company that you buy gas from, and then only use that company's gas for the life of the car. Rent Idiocracy, it's a movie about what happens to the US when people gullibly accept everything that corporations tell them.
Carmakers increasingly under fire for using run-flat tires {Autoblog}
Aug 22nd 2007 10:34AM For millions of reasons the answer is a G35 (no runflats and a real spare), I have no regrets about ditching my 3-series and getting a better built, 5-series sized car with a polite, instead of arrogant, dealer network.
Of course BMW hasn't been responsive to your problems, you dared to buy from their least expensive series and still have the nerve to expect to be treated like a human being.
