I’m in New Orleans every day. The roads are terrible and I even took a class last semester on New Orleans culture and we went to the treme and learned about the highway and what happened. However, I don’t understand how removing that part of the interstate is going to work. It let’s you fly over all the terrible roads…

To be clear, the report does not call for every highway to be replaced with housing, but rather to put in boulevards more in keeping with an urban environment, featuring green space and places for pedestrians to exist without fearing vehicular manslaughter.

You want to tear down I-70, literally the main artery that connects the West to the Midwest, to make room for housing and parks?

Fix It Again Tony Tesla

Man, that build quality is going to be through the roof. 

Full self driving is, and will continue to be a farce until every vehicle on the road is a self driving vehicle, infrastructure is standardized (signal placement, lane paint, lane paint color, road work signage and lines standardization, and even road cleanliness).  It will take decades for this to be realized. 

México can’t stop it until the US does something about its drug use problem. Neither can any of the other nations in Latin America as John Kelly pointed out in a rare moment of honesty on the topic for a US official:

What about the fact that if there are more people making $25 an hour, there are more people who can afford to buy a truck?

I dislike Tesla in the same way many dislike the New England Patriots. It’s irrational, and I gain nothing from it, but I enjoy seeing them lose.

the OG xB was pretty much an Echo inside, and it’s my favorite car ever.

So they have to spend funds to build this network of robot cars, maintain these cars and run these cars and this makes them profitable? Because robot cars don’t get paid a wage. But now Uber/Lyft own all the expense of said running, maintaining and insuring this fleet?

But if AVs come out, Uber/Lyft will not be the only ones running them (given Uber’s progress thus far, they’re definitely not going to be the first ones there).

Possible debris collisions at 17,500mph? What could go wrong.

Oh wait here’s a pic of a half an ounce of plastic at 15,000mph shot against an Aluminum block.

I drove across the USA from CT to CA in the original Scion iA recently and I was genuinely really impressed with the car. It’s far more fun than it has any right to be and has a lot of personality. It’s not exactly fast, but it has no problem cruising at a good highway speed for hours fully loaded with stuff.

Over the last nearly 20 years, my mother has owned only two vehicles, both brand new Lexus vehicles (Lexi?). The one thing she loves the most (besides the reliability) is the service/dealer experience. Mercedes dealer? Salesman saw my mother was a black woman and opened his pitch with a 10 (ten!) year finance package,…

You are my hero.

I have a reluctant badge of honor. My local Mazda dealer no longer wants my business. They actually refused to offer me a price quote and asked me to leave.

Yes, because the booger eating 17 year old messing up my hamburger order while texting her boyfriend surely ‘deserves’ to be able to live on her own and never feel pressure to improve herself or her station. Clearly she's on a progressive path to figuring this out on her own. 

There used to be this thing called roommates. Young people who did not have the skills and experience to be paid a “living wage” got together and shared expenses. Then as they moved up they got their own places.

There isn’t a possible scale where you can pay shitty jobs a “living wage”. If you elevate crap jobs to a higher pay point, everything else inflates in cost and in a matter of time everything becomes unaffordable to those elevated to the “living wage” again and we’re back at square one calling for a living wage.