Drivers are contractors because Uber/Lyft is a BROKER. That’s the important part that everyone keeps leaving out. 

They are clearly contractors. By established labor law, there is no conceivable way they are employees, which is why California had to pass this special law to begin with.

At the last minute, the state gave in.

Are you going to fix it up now or wait until your friends girlfriends parent’s get a letter from the town?

Here’s the thing that rips me off. I had a Toyota during the entire “sudden acceleration” thing. I lost count of the number of zeroes in the settlement of the class action suit against Toyota for stacking up 8 thick floormats on the same car.

The headline BEGS us to question the premise that, to some, has the intensity of religious zeal- are there other factors driving climatic change?

Perhaps it’s time to actually use the solution we’ve had for over half a century, instead of wasting our time doing everything that doesn’t work and can’t work.

One thing I’ve noticed about Teslas I’ve seen. is that they seem under-built compared to a conventional car. I mean the model X weight 5000 lbs. As much as a truck, yet the suspension arms look like something for a 3200 lb Subaru.  Honestly my Civic has stronger looking lower control arms. 

Brand new cars are brought in all the time to fix things, you just don’t hear about it. There are dedicated teams that go out and visit dealerships when cars come in with quality issues. Usually it’s more minor things, like wrong color trim pieces or wind noise, that come from defects in the assembly process.

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It’s amazing how much damage can be done and not leave significant marks. For everyone saying there would have to be significant damage I can attest that’s not the case. My wife came home a few months back and said she accidentally backed into a rock at the park in our M3 while turnin around. There were just a few…

If you fit in the car, you’ll trigger anti stall five times before crashing at the first corner.

That is you not being able to come to grips with something you can not control. All of this is just theater really. We’re just pretending we can actually do something about this and that gives us some illusion of control over our own lives.

Crazy! Yeah, I seemingly get incredibly lucky when things go completely wrong.

Your dream of people not being jerks on Twitter died around 580 years ago. As soon as Gutenberg invented the printing press where it was cheap to say whatever was on your mind, people started documenting their assholery.

I wish people weren’t jerks on Twitter. That said, the wear on the tire reminds me of an accident I saw where someone totaled their 2000 Jetta sliding sideways into a curb at ~15 MPH. The data from accelerometers should give a pretty clear picture if that happened.

Jesus, that’s awful and I hope they get it sorted out.

Are you sure it just doesn’t need a software update?

We just have to accept the fact that practically everyone will eventually get this virus. The mask mandate is only to slow the transmission to prevent jamming up the hospitals.  Like that Minnesota epidemiologist said this morning, we will be dealing with this virus for years if not decades.

If they can’t find a driver, I’m free this weekend. I can be in the UK by tomorrow. Just throwing it out there...