When I was in college, there was a years long mystery in the CS dept of someone taking smearing dumps on the top of the toilet tank in the men’s restroom. This person was known in the dept as the “phantom crapper”. Yep, I’m typing this because it turned out to be a professor. A friend of mine in the department was…

that might’ve been because the car rarely ran long enough to not be in the garage for service during any 10 week period for those brave enough to use it as a daily driver. 

Well, maybe Tesla will gladly give you the good stuff for an extra $100k.  

Oh, I’m sure they knew, but at some point you just have to ship the damn product. 

I watched a review on youtube. This had every opportunity to be a good EV truck... if Tesla had just built it conventionally. Musk could’ve even built it with with a crazy ultra modern shape... just without stainless (which we all know is “rust-resistant”). What a pity.

That’s the problem, I think, when you have to keep the youtube gravy train going.   All the click-baity titles to his posts are a waste.  

I had a good chuckle. Yeah, that’s about every Kilmer video ever.   I mean I think he started out decent enough but then had to keep the views going. 

not a fan.    He’s kind of over the top for me.   About a few minutes of good content for every 10 minutes of showmanship.  

The Money Guy podcast regularly rips on Dave Ramsey. Ramsey often doesn’t know a lot about basic saving for retirement, much less about cars. So... you know.

I’m not necessarily shilling for the Money Guys, but they actually break stuff down things in simple ways so you can do the math yourself. Plus, they are a…

ding! ding! ding!     see, all kinds of interesting non-malicious hacks.

I mean, you can use it that way, but if you pull out a flipper zero during, like say, a business presentation, you might draw a bit of undue attention to yourself.

It cannot steal your car’s unlock code... or rather, not in a way that it an be used.   Unless your car is like 30+ years old.   Cars use rolling codes.   So, um...   yeah.   

Choose between Muskmobile and Chinese built car.  I cannae do it!

Honestly, I think the harder problem is out of state (district) cars.   An old car?  Just pull the registration and not let them drive it at all.  

Well, I can see a lawsuit on a shared vehicle, but not on free speech grounds.  But you can do things like require digital drivers’ licenses that exist on your phone, notify authorities when you are driving, and tie that to the car.   If you are in the car with your license (your phone) the car will start and the…

Why do people always deploy this rationale? Repeat offenders get more severe penalties. Duh.
If they can’t sort out their behavior, then a long prison sentence is in their future. 

This is, IMO, better than the California proposal. But I think it needs to be for egregious situations. If you are caught way over the limit, or in a school zone, or are a repeat offender, then a limiter is a reasonable option.

Well, we are annoyed for a few reasons... up til recently, SUVs had a price premium. SUVs have not always been as safe. But also, they just are more expensive to operate in many cases.

And, we don’t want minivans to die...which is a real concern given the collapse of things like station wagons and sedans. So I think…

Odyssey owner here... a few thoughts:

not so simple... I don’t know where you’re getting your specific data from, but deaths from falls overall disproportionately affect people over 65