#its famously why it is ill advised to drive UNDER the speed limit

[trickstarbrave]

i dont wanna bug op but like

to the person who rbed from me specifically and posted these tags:

#this is hilarious because dricing the speed limit is not gonna get you hit..#you really think ppl will rear end you because Youre drivimg the speed limit?#do you understand that if you get rear ended it is quite literally always their fault unless they have PROOF#that you intentionally break checked them?#rear end is always the person in backs fault i havent ever heard it ruled another way and thats how my accident was ruled w no investigation#no one will read end you because they know it would ruin their life#theyd be out a car theyd get a ticket and possibly arrested you sue them and then they cant ever replace that car#literally they cant because the used car market is nuts#no one is going to hit you guys like cmon thats the worst excuse ive ever heard#you guys are really so impatient that travelling 20x the speed you could generate on your own is too much??#jesus christ...#this is why i dont make friends this behavior is ridiculous and if i get in a car w someone and their speeding all over#im getting out of the car and were not friends anymore like you dont invite someone in your vehicle and drive unsafe w them

you are correct that getting rear ended is almost always gonna have you ruled as Not At Fault. i actually recently got hit in the rear of my car. cops ruled me not at fault. i had to CHASE DOWN THIS WOMAN'S FUCKING INSURANCE TO GET THEM TO PAY FOR MY CAR. and do you know what they said? they said the car wasn't worth fucking fixing. they said it was totaled. it wasn't even that fucked up. but apparently repairs were FAR beyond what the car was worth despite buying a new vehicle costing WAY MORE THAN THAT. this debacle took literally MONTHS trying to resolve. eventually i had to get my dad involved, go to MY insurance, get the money up to what they determined my fucking car was worth, and then pay for the rest of the repairs out of fucking pocket.

i guess i could have chased this old woman down in small claims court for the fucking difference but 1. i dont think the court would have given a shit and decided its MY problem my vehicle is apparently worth only 1k dollars 2. she's an old woman that only hit me because she had fainted earlier, was trying to show her friend how to back up the car bc her breaks were fucked up, accidentally hit the gas too hard while disoriented, and hit my car. she was already at fault for her friend's medical bills. do you think i wanted to be the bad guy hounding some old woman for fucking money.

also like. it doesn't matter if they are at fault and we are going at the designated highway speed limit of 65-70 mph here. that is going to completely destroy the back of my car, potentially flip my vehicle or at the very least cause me to go off road, and i might actually die. "oh that won't happen grow up--" ive been in a near fatal car accident WITHOUT someone fucking read ending me on the highway. my wheel locked up when i was trying to make a pass and i ended up going off road and crashing into a tree. i was lucky it wasnt me going off road off a fucking mountainside bc those are common here and would have meant absolute certain death. sure they will go to jail for manslaughter but i dont want a pyrrhic fucking victory jackass i wanna live

i have driven the speed limit before. i had ppl up my fucking ass who then pass me and flip me off or deliberately made a point to drive close to the side of my vehicle in a passing lane to intimidate me. "but thats illegal they can't do that" astute observation shithead. do you think when i am worried about Not Dying as someone who has Nearly Died In A Car Accident Before because some jackass has decided killing both of us is a valid response to a mild inconvenience i wanna try and get their fucking license plate and call the cops who will tell me "we'll look into it" and do fucking nothing?

i would really genuinely love to not live in a shit place like this. our car centric infrastructure is also done in a way that de-incentivizes actually going the speed limit for most ppl (did you know ppl slow down if the streets are more narrow naturally? yeah they also speed the fuck up if there are like 7 fucking lanes on this road). people here drive like maniacs. i've also nearly been killed for even dumber reasons than someone deciding to ride my ass down the highway like coming to a complete fucking stop on the highway leading to me having to swerve into 2 other lanes. and i was GOING THE SPEED LIMIT DURING THIS INCIDENT.

tl;dr:

"someone might rear end you bc u live in a place with insane ass drivers? yeah right thats illegal, people can't do that!"

#i drive like an asshole sometimes but not necessarily for speeding #if im speeding its because everyone else is speeding #which yes driving slower than everyone else around you is also dangerous #its famously why it is ill advised to drive UNDER the speed limit #if ppl actually drove the speed limit around me these things would be less of an issue

[businessweekme]

Jaguar I-Pace Electric SUV Rivals Model X

To know Ian Callum is to understand why he was the right person to create the Jaguar I-Pace, and to understand why it’s a success.

The Jaguar design director is a famously convivial Scot, a man of far-ranging interests. He reads C.S. Lewis, restores old Porsche 914s, and consumes an omnivorous diet of music, to which he listens while he designs.

He’s also the darling of automotive critics everywhere. Maybe it’s his disarmingly humble Scottish brogue that announces him simultaneously as one of the boys and the leader of the pack. Maybe they love him because he gave the world the Aston Martin DB7 and DB9, the Vanquish, the Jaguar F-Type, and the Nissan R390, a rear-wheel-drive Le Mans racing car. Each of these embodies Callum’s ability to push car design forward at historic brands.

His latest is a $69,500 electric SUV. It’s the company’s first purely electric vehicle: a low-riding, compact SUV that you might compare against everything from the Porsche Panamera E-Hybrid, Audi Q5, BMW X3, and Mercedes-Benz GLC. I’m not going to call it a Tesla-killer—the Model S and Model X remain automotive all-stars. But the I-Pace is the first vehicle that holds its own against them in terms of range, performance, technology, and design.

It’s also the logical next step for Callum’s evolution as a designer. As the company attempts to regain its heyday after a severe depression in design and performance and never making a profit under Ford Motor’s reign in the 1990s and early 2000s, it’s the right vehicle for Jaguar to launch now.

“Jaguar has always been about innovation,” Callum told me, explaining why it’s natural, though unexpected, for an 84-year-old British racing brand to turn around and produce an all-electric vehicle, and an SUV at that. “We have to embrace the new; we have to find ways to push things forward.”

After driving the I-Pace around for an afternoon in Los Angeles, I’m happy to report that it looks distinctively like a Jaguar, with a low-slung roofline, wide stance, and gently curved hood—no small feat for a futuristic 4,784-pound rig that must find space to store a large 90-kilowatt-hour battery under its floor.

In my test, it performed as well as any electric vehicle you’ll find on the market today. Jaguar has given the I-Pace two motors that send 394 horsepower and 512 pound-feet of torque to all four wheels. It can hit 60 miles per hour in 4.5 seconds, which puts it on par with much more expensive vehicles like the Porsche Macan E-Hybrid and entry levels of the Model X. Top speed is 124 mph.

The gearless, instant torque turns highway exits and on-ramps into a thrilling experience. With its quietly whirring motor, it creeps up on BMWs and Audis jogging through traffic and easily dusts them. But the regenerative brakes take some getting used to: The strongest of the two modes of regenerative brakes slows the car the moment you lift your foot off the accelerator, which is a weird sensation when you’re used to driving cars that simply coast when you let off the gas.

Otherwise, the I-Pace feels glued to the road, riding so low there’s no apparent body roll, and as good a handling around corners and switching lanes as you’ll find in the Model X. It’s no sports car, but it’s responsive enough.

The I-Pace has a range of roughly 240 miles. This is not far enough to drive on a road trip of any quality, unfortunately; it’ll do for daily work commutes, not driving from L.A. to Big Sur. But it at least matches the general going rate set by the Tesla Model X (or what Callum refers to as Elon’s “breadbox”).

On the other hand, often what’s more useful is the charging duration of an electric vehicle, rather than its total range. On a day trip with the Model X, I spent hours unwillingly waiting inside a Denny’s while the vehicle charged. Never again, I grumbled to myself for days afterward. Charging on the I-Pace takes 40 minutes to get from zero to 80 percent full on a 100-kilowatt fast charger, or 85 minutes at a more common 50-kW charger. Alternatively, home charging with a 230V/32A AC wall box (7kW) will charge the I-Pace from zero to 80 percent in 10.1 hours, or basically overnight.

That 90-kWh battery contains 432 pouch cells that help aid this process. According to Callum, they’re preferable to use for their high energy density and superior heat management—after all, one of the biggest challenges about engineering electric vehicles is figuring out how best to keep the batteries cool.

Because of this, the exterior of the I-Pace is designed to maximize airflow. The hood and front grille area feature a subtle scooped-out ventricle all across the top that funnels air from the front and shapes how it flows over the car. Its radiator-looking front is curved inward to pull air inside and through to its underbelly. At the back, a high and blunt square spoiler over the rear windshield keeps flowing air attached to the vehicle, as it were, which limits turbulence and minimizes drag.

In fact, the exterior styling is the most exciting thing about the I-Pace. I mean this as a good thing. In the midsize luxury SUV segment where every new model looks bland at best and forgettable at worst, Callum has managed to do what he says is more difficult than creating something original—he created something rather beautiful.

The rest of this relatively compact, 184-inch-long SUV (it’s within an inch of Jaguar’s small XE sedan, for instance, though it looks much longer) flows without a seam into these two ends, topped by a large panoramic sunroof and flanked by 22-inch wheels (18- and 20-inch come standard, though I predict few buyers will end up with them). It offers three largely cosmetic trim level options: S, SE, and HSE. All of them look elegant and have the weight of quality materials well-deployed.

Inside, there’s significantly constricted visibility out the rear windows, but the cabin is otherwise spacious and sunlit. There are smart cellphone storage options, and the seats are easy to adjust. It fits five adults and has enough storage in the back (25.3 cubic feet) to fit overnight bags for all of them, should you take that ill-advised road trip.

An electric powertrain provides more freedom to maximize the space inside the car, since there is a lot less, mechanically speaking, to take up room between the axles. (On the other hand, with all that space, the lack of visibility for the driver becomes even more frustrating.)

The two clever central command screens combine touch technology with comforting tactile controls (sometimes buttons and knobs are the best tools for the job) that monitor climate, navigation, audio, driving characteristics, and dual-mode regenerative brakes. You can do things like adjust cabin air ionization (it mitigates smells and improves air quality) and preheat or precool the interior of the I-Pace using the touchscreen or, remotely, the smartphone app. If you do it while the I-Pace charges, you can hit your goal temp without using power from the battery, thus preserving the driving range for when you get inside.

It all feels as refined, quiet, and sensibly dutiful inside as it feels to drive. Deliveries start later this year.

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