Noah Harbinger

I suspect the battery-drain gremlins mean that if your car sits a lot you'll need to replace it more often than if you drive it daily. It takes almost no power to start a hybrid (all it's doing is energizing the 12 system enough for it to close a relay)... which also means the battery can get into a realllllly bad state before you realize it's dying - I had one discharge to the point that it spewed sulphuric acid around the battery compartment. (It actually dissolved the battery hold-down clamp, so I've got a little styrofoam in there to help hold it in place.)

3 years later, I'm sure this will be no help to you, maybe someone else will run across it. I've had similar "no volume" errors, as well as "system boops but it doesn't do anyhting" and some other odd problems here and there. I've made a habit of pulling the fuse whenever one of the electrical components is acting wonky until I eventually pull the right fuse and everything works correctly again.

I remember in the late 90s, it was predicted that microtransactions would save journalism from the scourge of the expectation that information on the Internet would be free. Forego obtrusive ads (this was the dawn of the pOp-up) and intrusive user tracking by charging some amount too small to refuse - say, a nickel, which is far more than ad-impression revenue - to read a full article, which would be aggregated by a clearinghouse to monthly payments from the customer, to the content creators. But no, they all want subscriptions. So journalism dies.

Serial hybrid with no battery storage or regenerative breaking? (And no, dynamic breaking is not regenerative breaking). SO basic!

A tax reduction is no less of 'a grant of money' than a check in the mail. You will be hard pressed to find anyone who does not consider tax offsets tied to specific activities a 'subsidy'. Many finance-related definitions of the word explicitly include tax breaks in their description of subsidies.

The school where I work claims that you can't name something "<school> <student organization>", you have to name yourself "<student organization> at <school>" to make it clear that there's no official affiliation between the school and the organization. I imagine it's something like that.

And regardless of whether anyone agrees with that objective (which seems more like a sub-discussion for a political forum, especially with the hateful tone many of these responses are carrying), Ford seems very well prepared to maintain offerings in every segment in the automotive market for places that are passing such requirements. I assume the other automakers have similar plans, I wonder how their timelines and thoroughness compare.

Does anyone have a solid explanation for why that calculation is incorrect? My personal speculation is that the engine control computer back-calculates out the ethanol proportion of the gasoline to determine the 'pure gasoline equivalent' volume, and uses that as the basis of its MPG calculations - maybe based on the calculations done as part of managing the air-fuel ratio. That seems like it would be a pretty reasonable basis to use, since it would even out the differences between fuel so that the displayed measurement would reflect only on driving conditions, driving style, and engine health. (In my Fuelly stats, I use the 'gallons' reported by the second trip odometer for the top-line stats, but record the volume pumped as an 'additional comment')

You have QA? Fancy!

Pushed interaction can be really tricky, they'd better be really careful to get it right. I'm not buying a car for its ability to influence my future purchasing decisions.

She was crossing from the other direction.

Look at the frame of the video immediately before she is hit: She is by the broken white line on the right that indicates the start of the right-hand turn lane - so, about lined up with the top of the X, an even more open and exposed crossing point. (But also, even closer to the crosswalk).

IMHO the big-complex-shape sync/cruise multi-control levers on my C-Max (and the Focus) are my favorite steering wheel controls of any I've seen on any car, any make, ever. No fumbling or taking eyes off the road for the right button.

'13 C-Max, the seatbelt adjuster squeaks a bit, the door handles creak a bit much for my taste when jostled, and there's a rattle in the passenger side somewhere that I haven't yet determined. I wonder if reductions in exterior noise intrusion make smaller noises inside the vehicle stand out more?

I guarantee if you've flown a common-carrier route, you've flown in a plane with autopilot engaged, probably a significant majority of the miles.