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https://news.gm.com/home.detail.html/Pages/topic/us/en/2026/apr/0428-super-cruise.html I'm a huge self-driving fan. GM does have a great highway solution. A billion miles with no accidents - sign me up. I'm keeping my eye on the hinted-but-not-promised R2T. Rivian is saying (yea, promises are...

The next form factor off the UEV platform might be the "penguin car", according to Porsche... https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2022/innovation/porsche-engineering-an-aerodynamically-optimal-car-29929.html

Yea, we owned two Volvo XC40s. One had low profile tires. One had a more normal aspect ratio. The low profile tires sucked. Great for looks. Sucky for everyday life.

More than one Ford executive has gone out of his/her way in interviews to say "it's not a truck". The more I see, the more I believe. And it makes sense to me. Ford already has a whole lineup of trucks. They seem to be aiming at something else here. Almost a station wagon with a bed. Lower road...

The thing that sticks out to me in this photo is how much more aggressively the Fathom windshield is raked - especially where it meets the roof. Eyes play tricks on us. To compare the rake angles, I just place a ruler between my eyes and the screen. I lined up the Mazda "A" pillar, and then I...

It's a mystery to me why Honda is stopping Ridgeline production this fall. I understand there's an all-new Ridgeline coming in 2028. I suppose maybe they can stockpile enough 2027 model year Ridgelines to carry them to 2028. I'm puzzled about the move.

I'll take a CEO that acknowledges the scope of a challenge over one that constantly promises things by year's end, and consistently hasn't delivered on those promises a decade later (sound like anybody you might know?).

>> Computers are glorified light switches So are humans. A neural net is a neural net. Just a different substrate.

Rivian and Tesla have already proven your point in automotive. Rivian did it well enough that VW Group sent them billions to get access to their software/hardware stack.

In my division we had an adage: "Start by assuming it's your fault". That really worked to eliminate finger pointing. We had to work with an entire universe of third party hardware and software, so the natural human impulse to get defensive and finger point. It's a very human thing to start with...

I should add my favorite developer mantra here. IMHO, it summarizes my entire career in software... The 6 Stages of Debugging That can't happen. That doesn't happen on my machine (or car or truck). That shouldn't happen. Why does that happen? Oh, I see. How did that ever work? I have walked...

You asked a totally fair question. I drive a Maverick. I've had 4 recalls (done in the driveway by Ford Mobile Service), with one pending. They were painless. That legacy stack had plenty of teething problems. It's not unique to Ford. GM has been struggling with their Ultium platforms. I can...

The automotive software stack is a thing unto itself. From what I've read, the team developing it is not connected to the legacy Ford team. We're all just going to have to wait and see how it all works. I spent decades as a software engineer in the Advanced Research & Development division of a...

"Builders" rock. You guys are cool. You make the world more interesting and fun.

I left my software days in the rear view mirror a few years back. But I still remember (in my last years) being amazed at what I could get done in 20 milliseconds on a CPU with a high CPU core count and clever parallel-optimized algorithms. So I figure, if it comes to war with the machines...