“You kids do you.”

I can acknowledge the advantages I have and understand that not everyone is so fortunate. It is unfortunate that you, and so many like you, cannot. 

Ah, Schrodinger’s conservative boomer argument: Millennials are spending all their money on useless college degrees and higher education is worthless propaganda, but if they expect to be paid a living wage they should go to school and study for a good job and not flip burgers!

In one of my rare posts without jokes, I just want to take a moment to say I’m happy Pete Buttigieg is actually looking at infrastructure in a reasonable way. (Preface: Strong Towns is a great book, and it’s also now a podcast series about urban planning, roads, development, etc. There are also some excellent Google…

I’m aware of at least one company that had driver monitoring cameras that removed them. The driver had an accident and the other driver’s lawyer used it to prove negligence. That was the end of that. 

1st gear: I’m not cheering for “big bad Amazon,” but this is nothing new. At a bare minimum, most companies have GPS tracking on their fleet vehicles, while a lot already have dash cams. Of all the things to get upset with Amazon about, this is pretty low on the list.

counterpoint: the regulations aren’t being drawn up with stuff like a hellcat in mind at all. they’re being drawn up to cover the 99.99% of cars that aren’t hellcats and the modern muscle cars are just going to be collateral damage. look around in a parking lot. there are an awful lot of V8 powered trucks.

also, read…

It just means you still need to watch Spaceballs. 

“The days of an iron block supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 are numbered,”

So a poorly designed gear lever directly contributed to at least one death in recent memory (Anton Yelchin and his Grand Cherokee), how long until a Tesla gets it wrong and rolls someone over?

They can’t do a consistent panel gap, but they can predict whether you want to go forward, backward or park. Got it.

This is one of those concepts that is “fine” if you play its rules, but will be indescribably maddening if you need it to do something counter to its logic.

“how dare you use what we have been doing for years agaisnt us!” -Wall Street

It’s absolutely right that the economics have to make sense before there will be a transition to renewable energy. In fact, it would have been nearly impossible do otherwise. What would have happened if Shell had announced a big new investment in electric car charging in 1990? If they had decided to transition away…

Who wants a 15 year old car for new car money?

A lot of people, as it turns out.

Charger sales in 2019 were up 23%, making it one of the top two selling years of *any* generation Charger. And the Challenger has sold 60,000 - 66,000 units in the US every year from 2015-2019, substantially more than 2009 to 2014.

The Pacifica can be a Dodge with no effort.

I’d axe/change the following:

Putting Chrysler out of its misery seems like it’s a long overdue mercy. They can slap a Dodge badge on the Pacific and Voyager and no one would bat an eye. RAM could also get rolled back into Dodge, I’m sure I’m not the only person who still refers to them as a “Dodge Rams.”  Jeep is probably safe. 

“Siri, what are the top 10 least reliable automotive brands?”

I certainly am fond of Chrysler’s heritage, and would hate to see it go.

1st: Let’s stop pretending Dodge and Ram are different brands. There is almost no reason to continue selling Fiats in America. Chrysler seems to be doomed, but there is a lot of brand equity there that shouldn’t be written off. Seems like the proper thing to do would be to bring out some new Chrysler models in the US.