Was reading and laughing at same. Whether it’s Boing, Tesla, or Maersk many of the accidents are attributable to one thing: making money. Maybe it can get a little muddied when you introduce the idea of making money at the expense of safety compared to making money by rushing half-baked goods to market in an effort to…

Stop, stop. It’s already dead.

I’m absolutely shocked that cut-throat capitalism leads to under-maintained equipment, overworked employees, and generally unsafe conditions. Safety be damned! We have profits to maximize! 

Oh. Wow. That’s way more than I realized.

Yeah. It just doesn’t make any sense. 

What conceivable benefit would concentrating on robo-taxis have vs. bringing the Model 2 to market. Even if it came in at $30k, which seems doable given that the Model 3 is at $35k, it would be huge. Unlike robo-taxis, which more and more companies seem to be giving up on because the reality is that they don’t work…

Felt it all the way up in Albany. 

180 hp is pretty anemic. Lower than all of the competition. 

Definitely true. That said, one of the most entertaining cars I’ve driven in the last few years was my dad’s Chevy Spark EV. While it only had 140 hp, it had 330 ft-flb torque that was always instantly available. In a car that only weighed 2,800 lbs, it was hilarious fun. He ditched the super-hard tires it came with…

Oh, I live this mantra big time. We are huge live in the now folks - probably to the point of occasional irresponsibility. Waited a long time to have kids so we could travel the world and enjoy life in one way. Now at 40 I have an 18 month old and we live a smaller life trying to enjoy having a kid as much as…

Ha. Small world, 2,800 miles apart.

A while back we had a small quake in upstate NY (weird enough). I was sitting in my parked car eating lunch and I couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on. I swore a bunch of kids were gently pushing my car around. It was so bizarre. So, as long as you’re driving, suspension works! But, I definitely noticed even…

That Buck is a cool story. I love it.

Both my current car (2015 Forester) and my wife’s car were bought as CPOs. Mine was also the only manual on the lot, so it was deeply unloved and deeply discounted. Payment on both was under $300 and we paid them off ages ago. It used to be a no brainer, you could save somewhere in the $5-7k (or even more for mine)…

Yeah, that’s the problem - we all just take it on the chin and accept it as the new norm. And I guess what else is there to do? But boy, I sure hate it. While at the Honda dealership we looked at CR-Vs, which are nice cars and we really don’t need anything as big as the Pilot because it’s unlikely we’re having another…

Nah. I’m pro bitching about slideshows. The worst possible means of communicating information which is designed solely to manipulate clicks and maximize ads. 

Or you can just go here and skip this fucking insufferable slide show. 

It turned out we miraculously timed the buying of our current house, and got a 30 year loan at 3.05%. Have two cars fully paid off and the idea of paying contemporary car loan prices is an almost impossible thing to imagine. I occasionally look into new cars. My wife’s 2013 Rogue is falling apart and will need to be…

Ha. Big same. I live in Albany, NY, but we’re surrounded by rural farmland and it’s very similar. Run down houses and trailers with a $90k Ram TRX in the driveway. Like I said in another comment, whatever you want to do with your money is your call, but it’s shocking to me that it’d be worth living in a veritable…