Exactly. Total house of cards. Ford and GM, companies that actually sell millions of cars and have a century of history, production plants, employees and good vehicles is worth less than a shady company that has produced a few dodgy electric cars that aren’t road worthy? Makes a lot of sense.
Stock valuations are a…

His Tweating fingers are strong as hell. The rest, not-so-much. Or are those “X-ing fingers” now?

If you’re flying in a populated area, I want you going down with your plane steering it into a open field.

conserve mode drops the vehicle’s ride height to reduce aero drag (Rivian isn’t the first company to do this). the toe angle of the suspension changes as it’s compressed (ie. bump steer). that increased toe angle causes the tire to produce a cornering force as the vehicle is traveling straight down the road. the…

If Europe would have me I’d gladly flee the hellhole that is the US. I’d do it even if I didn’t get a Scirocco. Hell, I’d do it if they gave me a Reliant Robin.

I don't think I've ever seen an airline door that opens inward.

Saying “These comments were on reddit” without the context that they’re downvoted to oblivion is irresponsible. Reddit’s community generally doesn’t put up with that shit. 

Yea tons of Rittenhouse fans in here. 

There’s a reason you don’t always use tear gas in riots, and that reason is that it is combustible and it can become toxic when heated.

Emotional Support Chevy C10 for eye bleach purposes. 

I was very close to buying one with the price cuts. But fuck Elon Musk. I’m not giving that clown a penny, and don’t want a car so closely associated with him.

Motorsport? Yes. Racing? Not really.

That would totally be a timely and relevant discussion to have 15 or 16 years ago 

You’ll be fine. Seriously.

Been to Florida at least double the amount of times and have never seen anything weird once. You got lucky. 

SJ, work in SF.

It’s an oil change reminder label maker, not the nuclear football

He didn’t say that Alston shouldn’t have been offended by it. He said that once the error was discovered, it was remedied with termination of the responsible employee, and as the tampering of the machine occurred after hours, it’s not something that would be expected, and hence not something that would be looked-for.…

Hang on. They also hired a guy who used to work for the EV company, and a guy who worked for a phone company that tried (and failed) to make a car. Their success is assured!

“Our prejudice will never get us to 8 percent [EV profit] margins,” he said. “We have to design the vehicle totally differently. We have to manufacture it, source it and sell it totally differently. That’s been a big transition.”