Correct. We need human augmentation, not AI. It’s been true for 60 years - machine learning is great for some things, but it sucks at the things that humans are really good at.

Your statement is without merit because AVs have not driven enough miles to demonstrate statistically that they are safer than human drivers.

What an idiot. The correct place to hit triple digits on 580 is between Castro Valley and Highway 13... and you will be passed.

Somebody (maybe AAA?) did a study a while ago, which found that the average American spends something like $1000/year extra in car maintenance because of how bad our roads are.

Don’t blame the people of the ‘50s. Blame everybody since then who lowered the tax rates, making it seem impossible to do the things we did when we were a much poorer country.

Say what you will about Teslas, but LED light strips are definitely cool.

Most urban areas have separate city and suburban transit systems, including NYC (MTA vs. NJ Transit and LIRR), Chicago (CTA vs. Pace), San Francisco (Muni vs. samTrans, Golden Gate Transit, and more).

People... People... People... Come on.

I like the idea of saying that as if “cool” can be determined absolutely and objectively :-)

I think that’s how the California EV credit is set up, it’s just a direct rebate. And when I was looking into buying or leasing an eGolf (didn’t actually do it), the dealers were willing to kick in the full federal credit up-front.

I think they’re trying to change that, so that the credit could roll over to future tax years. Just like corporations can do with any number of tax breaks... but of course we the people can’t have that...

Great point. You can see that with Tesla, once they lost the tax credit they just lowered the price of the car. But by that time, they had ramped up production enough so that it wasn’t ridiculously unprofitable (just mildly).

Sometimes you’ve just got to accept that there will be some edge cases and live with it. In the effort to make a perfect system, you become Pete Buttigieg - “My plan will be so easy! Just fill out 100 forms to make absolutely sure that not a penny of this program is going to waste.” 

The sport for people who age out of skeleton.

Taxis and limos killed any hopes of the airport connection. :-(

Don’t forget, it’s also taking longer to build than the entire original BART core system!

I feel like we as a community might want to institute a “no gatekeeping” rule for stuff like this. Yeah, it’s dumb. But it’s also sorta cool? And it portends cooler things?

The correct answer is, “Yes, of course. Just give me your credit card number and I’ll totally pay off your balance.”

One wonders if it would be cheaper just to mandate smaller cars...

Sorry to hear about the fire, glad that the pads were able to help you (and the cleaners)!