Your points are generally correct. GM is now advertising more like a 5 mile range for battery only.

The GM engineers showed some pretty aggressive snow driving in the eRay. It will do great in the snow, with two caveats:

The charger you show in your picture is for charging the 12V SLI battery (staring, lights, ignition) battery. It is common for all corvettes (I’ve got that charger for my C7).

It would be terrible to actually use some numbers , but I’m going to do it anyways. Here is the auto insurance story in a nutshell:

I just think the US, specifically California is too laxed on enforcement and punishment.

I’m not here to defend the ambulance chasers either.

You are correct. There are other ways to avoid the doom loop you describe, we can see those by looking at the only two states that do not mandate auto insurance.

The requirement for insurance is not to protect you from the property loss of your vehicle, it’s to protect everyone around you and riding in your car with you from the damage you could cause.

Agreed. True supercars/hypercars are almost all carbon-fiber tubs these days.

UPS has always had consistently better service than FedEx in my area. Probably because UPS drivers are actual W4 employees while FedEx Ground drivers are low paid contractors that could give less shits about doing the bare minimum of their job.

It’s at the intersection of Cape Cod Way and Clayton St in Concord CA.  There is no obvious reason for why it would be collecting cars, they are both straight roads, the house is relatively close to the higher speed road (Clayton), but still set back reasonably far compared to the trees and a commercial building…

I think you’re right. I also wouldn’t be surprised if the paint got scratched on the part that is folded under.  

So will congress also prevent our personal cars from being tracked ie. via speed cameras, security cameras etc? I dont really care that I am tracked but trying to make things equal.

Agreed - this is certainly not a warranty issue and not a single new car dealer in my area runs their own body shop, he would have a problem getting that fixed at any OEM channel. You go to an independent body shop and hope they can fix it with paintless methods.

Let’s be clear, this has nothing to do with speeding on highways. They’ve put up a number of speed cameras in NYC surrounding schools and people are racking up multiple 35mph in a 30 speeding tickets. They are 24/7 unlike other jurisdictions where they are enforced during school hours.

What galls me is the lack of any analysis even when the data is there.

I’m not sure why you are repeating my second paragraph back to me.  Did you not read it?

I have routinely driven 150mph for stretches on the Autobahn in Germany, it’s doable / routine. Of course that was in daytime, on roads that are better maintained and designed for that speed, with other drivers that are primed to expect cars that are driving much faster than they are.

Agreed, this was the first car my wife and I bought together (literally on the day our first child was born).  She absolutely loved it.  The third row got used once or twice a year, but she just loved the optionality of having the row.  

Yes that is true (effect of high temperatures on lift), but that would not be a good hypothesis for what happened here. Tarmac delays that long are almost always issues with the destination airport , not the takeoff airport.