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Steve DaSilva

Steve DaSilva

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Jinkies, I Can't See Without My Apple Vision Pro - Jalopnik

Apple’s car is dead, after ten years of it being an extremely real thing that was absolutely going to happen and totally change the automotive world. This wasn’t going to be any major loss to us enthusiasts, until we learned one key piece of information: It was going to be a van. Vans rule, and losing one feels like a blow to the enthusiast world. Sure, none of us likely could’ve afforded that gullwing-doored van, but it would’ve been a neat thing to see through the windows of our aging shitbox…
about 1 year ago
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What Car Option Is Absolutely Worth The Money? - Jalopnik

Cars cost too much these days. Used cars, new cars — they all demand too much from our increasingly beleaguered wallets. Sure, new cars offer more features, tech, and safety than every, but how much are those worth to you in real, actual dollars? That’s a tough question to answer. How do you quantify that kind of progress, tie it all back down to a single line on a balance sheet? No, we’re not going to make you develop the formulas to figure out which features are worth what. Instead, today, we…
about 1 year ago
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EVs Can Be Fun And I'm Tired Of Hearing Otherwise - Jalopnik

I love electric cars. I love electric bikes, too. I don’t love them for their efficiency, their maintenance cost-savings, or their practicality, though — I love them because they’re fun. Now, not every EV is fun. This, I admit. But that doesn’t make them all bad, any more than a boring detuned two-liter turbo makes all hot hatches unremarkable appliances. Allow The NSX Was Only In Development For 4 Years to explain: Electric power delivery, even when it’s not pinning you to your seat with th…
about 1 year ago
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Everyone Is Underwater On Their Car Loans As Values Plummet - Jalopnik

Every year, the price of a new car ticks ever upwards. Loans get longer, yet monthly payments are always on the rise, leading to an epidemic of folks underwater on their loans. Now, there’s a new complicating factor: Used car prices are falling, meaning folks are getting less for their over-leveraged trade than ever. A new report from Edmunds looked at used car prices compared with trades that have negative equity and found that a drop in the former has led to a steep rise in the latter. Accor…
about 1 year ago
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We Don't Need Every Shiny New Toy - Jalopnik

I admit it: I love a shiny new toy. I own a Flipper Zero, I have a BambuLabs 3D printer, I’m the target market for Ooh Fancy Emergent Technology That Promises To Improve Life In Vague Inscrutable Ways. Yet, even I am on the side of the California governments trying to fight autonomous vehicle developers. My Flipper, despite public outcry, won’t hurt anyone on its own — it won’t even hurt anyone with my assistance, due to my longstanding policy of generally not being a dick. My 3D printer, simi…
about 1 year ago
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We've Wasted Nearly $50 Billion On Self Driving Cars. Here's Where ...

The race for fully autonomous passenger cars is a dumb one. Businesses are playing with technology that offers massive downsides for little gain, and just end up clogging up streets with their often-confused computerized vehicles. But there’s more to the story than mere Sisyphean endeavors of trying to teach human behavior to computers: These companies have also wasted tons of money on the whole thing. Cruise reportedly costs General Motors $2 billion per year. Waymo has taken in $5.7 billion…
about 1 year ago
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Crypto's 2023 Water Use Could Cool 249 Billion Volkswagen Beetles -...

Cryptocurrency is a weird, bad bubble that’s largely already popped, but some folks just refuse to give up and cash out. Instead, they’re hawking cryptocurrency perfumes to appeal to women, presumably because they asked exactly zero women what they’d want from crypto. It’s interesting, though, that a major crypto firm would market itself using liquids. The crypto industry is under continual fire for its wasting of natural resources, and chief among those is water — which crypto churns through…
about 1 year ago
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These Are The Worst Things About Your Cars - Jalopnik

Some cars are better than others, but no car is perfect — and our beloved shitboxes are often far from it. Earlier this week, we asked just how bad things are with your daily drivers and learned a few important things. Plenty of you actually have reliable, practical transportation in addition to your unending projects, and it seems like nearly every one of those daily drivers is a Mazda or Nissan. Oh, and, we learned the worst things about your cars. Let’s dive in. It’ll Run Forever, But Not F…
about 1 year ago
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Why Are So Many Car Manufacturers Making Anime Ads Now? - Jalopnik

Cars and anime are a time-honored pair. They go together like chocolate and peanut butter, as generations of shows from Speed Racer to MF Ghost have demonstrated, so it’s only natural that studios keep making beautiful shows about racing. Now, though, a new trend is cropping up again and again: Anime car ads. In the past few years, we’ve seen three major automakers jump into the anime advertising market. Some have been a natural fit, while others are just downright strange — leading everyone t…
about 1 year ago
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Dopest Cars Found For Sale Online: Unimog, Renault 5 Turbo 2 - Jalo...

Folks, happy Dune release day. By the time you’re reading this, I’ll have already visited Arrakis once more, but for now we’re all united in our anticipation. Will Denis Villeneuve pull it off again? I think so. He’s Denis Villeneuve, after ll But until we can all ride around on Shai Hulud, we’ll need another way to get from point A to point B. It may be less cool, but we’re going to get as close to the Maker’s level of interesting and unique as we can. In other words, we’re going to get the in…
about 1 year ago
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Man 'Hacks' Government Auction Website, Sells Himself Cars For $1 -...

Government auctions are a great way to pick up cars on the cheap, but even they have their limits. You might find cars going for just a few hundred dollars, but you’re not likely to find them selling for a single bill — unless, of course, you play a little fast and loose with an online auction like an Oklahoma man did. Evan James Coker apparently found some flaw in the General Service Administration’s auction page, which allowed him to bid up the price of various auctions but “win” them in the…
about 1 year ago