There seems to be zero predatory lending going on with these policies. No matter how someone handles the payments, as long as they made them on time, they paid the same price for the same car. If they did it up front or rolled it into the next loan, its all the same price. Even if the next loan were to cost more…

I’m sorry but this is so backwards.

I can imagine the following conversation in Boston:

That is absolutely insane.

I was taught to do that in typewriter days, and old habits died hard. Actually, they didn’t just die in my case — they were murdered in the word processing era by composition and layout pros who explained that what had once arguably made their job easier was now making it harder.

A single space is correct. Double-spacing is an artifact of typesetting conventions that no longer exist:

I knew about the protests that accompanied the film’s release, but I gotta point out that the picture accompanying that paragraph is a bit misleading.

I agree. I think it’s always dumb, but the dumbness is slightly less now. The chances of a run killing someone in a direct way due to higher traffic seems much higher than the chance the somehow they divert resources that could have helped a coronavirus patient and so someone else dies that way.

Sorry, not buying it. This was likely the safest time this could have been done. As you said, hardly anyone is on the road. I’m not buying the Alex Roy argument either, “They could have hit a truck carrying precious medical supplies”. Well, yeah but I’ll bet that’s statistically pretty low. I think most of the…

I think the idea that it’s somehow worse to do this during the coronavirus is quite wrong—yes, a crash will pull resources away from the virus, but a crash during “normal” times could very well kill a family or other innocent roadgoers. Minimizing the risk of that kind of incident seems to at least balance the…

“If literally one thing goes wrong—if the team needs to call for help or a tow truck, if they get stopped, if they crash—literally anything goes wrong here and these guys would be pulling resources from an otherwise already overloaded system, not to mention potentially increasing the risk of contracting coronavirus by…

You’re an ICU nurse? Today, the question isn’t what car you should buy, it’s what car we should buy for you.

“How is that any different than normal?” Any Peachtree street in Atlanta.

Same here. Normal traffic is flowing at 85mph on our interstate(55 or 65mph speed limit depending on area), but its not uncommon to be passed by someone approaching 100. No one flinches, its par for the course here in MA.

Theyll just spin directly into the hospitals. Cuts out the middle man

This is part one of the series at Jalopnik.

The bottom of the page in the link does exactly that.

Bingo! This is what I’ve been saying. The computers are good enough to keep the truck on the road, to follow directions, to miss most of the obvious obstacles.

If you know where the build ups happen, and why, this can be a useful tactic.

For normal traffic jams (Rush Hour), it’s been my experience that if you pay close attention to each lane, many times a specific lane will move faster than others in certain areas.  If you learn this, you can get into the faster lane without weaving.  It takes a while to figure this out as sometimes traffic changes…