Turns out you can read the manual of a vehicle ahead of time. Turns out you can also test drive and do everything else you said, and we don't need to pretend th

Turns out you can read the manual of a vehicle ahead of time. Turns out you can also test drive and do everything else you said, and we don't need to pretend that it's all mutually exclusive. Stop being a pedant -- me listing every bit of due diligence about my car isn't relevant, so let's stay on topic. Honestly, how can people on HN actually be this against reading? Especially things that are really important? Sure, don't read the contest rules for your McDonald's monopoly. But if the data for your livelihood depends on something, there's no excuse for not reading the documentation.