I’m no monarchist, but colonialism doesn’t need kings and queens; see France, China, the Soviet Union and....one more, its on the tip of my tongue...

Doesn’t seem wildly off to me. Average build cost of a 2 bed apartment where I live is €220,000; assume two people to a berth on this thing and its just over $300K per berth, but I’m not getting a waterpark, restaurants and a cinema in the average Irish apartment block. And it doesn’t move.

No-one seems to want to point the finger at the Dutch Orange Army fans. Its the Dutch Orange Army fans. I’ve been to dozens and dozens of GPs in multiple countries going back to when I was a child, and both my parents were marshalls back in the day, and there was never any kind of nastiness in my experience. Now it…

Its the headlights that put me off; I like the shape, like the interior, but when I see one coming the other way, yuk. 

Nearly 2/3 of the world’s entire population will be living in cities in less than 20 years from now. I’ve been to cities with really good mass transit (Singapore, Amsterdam, Paris) and cities with really bad mass transit (Manila, LA, Mumbai). You don’t want to live in cities with bad public transport in our urban…

The real challenge with these things will be psychological; you will have to convince customers that pilotless air taxis are more reliable and safer than manned aircraft, which is a hard ask, even if its statistically true. The perceived versus real risk problem will be off the charts with these things. 

Tax free in most European countries as well. Euromillions was won for €220m last week but its capped at that.

Mercedes has a much more interesting history:

Apple CarPlay will not replace your existing car’s instruments and binnacle. That’s never going to happen.

Not "will", "does". Android Auto is already live with Polestar. 

So reading the comments as a non-USAian...”something, something workers comp”. I still don’t understand why the vehicle owner needs to be involved in any way, and why they are being inconvenienced at all.

Interesting that Americans don’t look on 80s cars fondly whereas in Europe we had loads of great stuff; peak hot hatch (Golf GTI, 205 GTi 1.9 etc.), road going touring cars (Sierra Cosworth) and yes, nobody cared that TVRs were built like crap when they sounded like God clearing his throat every time they drove past.…

Alpine has sadly gone from best to worst in a single bound; that pink is revolting with the blue.

Oh I'm sure he was, Border Force can be absolute twats, but they have fewer powers than the TSA (who can compel foreign visitors to unlock their phones etc.) so they use implied powers to achieve the same thing.

UK Border Force aren’t police. They’re a combined customs and immigration service. They certainly have legal powers, but they’re not cops. 

Masts break. If they haven’t designed the masts to be removable/replaceable, they’ve really fucked up. 

Doesn’t this seem like something the boat yard should have known about and dealt with before taking on the commission? Bezos’ default douchebaggery aside, it doesn’t really seem like he was the one who fucked up here.

I kind of agree, but if all the equivalent cars from the “luxury” brands aren’t as good, then the Tesla model in that category becomes the “luxury” choice by default. I really don’t want a Model 3, it looks crap and I’m not really into that level of minimalism, but at the moment, all of the alternatives are inferior…

Is there a simple bit of case law that just rebuts the whole Sovereign Citizen thing? A nice legal “shut  the fuck up you weirdos”? 

Is it me or is this quite a bit smaller than the original show car? I keep looking at it and I’m trying to position a driver inside it without them having a face full of windscreen or be sat so far back that the rear seats are Porsche 911 sized. Its a difficult shape to judge the internal seating at the best of times…