“So... where are we getting the electricity?”

I wish it were not the case, but driving dynamics simply doesn’t matter in the gridlock traffic most of America sits in every day. There are so few people that live in an area where they can truly drive during their every-day trips, and precious few of us that require a real vehicle for our weekend escape to the…

3rd Gear:

2nd Gear: On the bright [cough] side, having Toyota adaptive high beams blinding me will mean I won’t see their new Prius designs

Tesla Model 3, as the $35,000 trim will also go into production sometime in “early 2019,” 

Neutral: It will instantly raise the price of their cars by thousands of dollars so, yes, it is a big deal. Tesla is, no doubt, exploring their options.

“EVs are especially susceptible as well.”

You bet - bring ‘em back, but I thought I would mention that the reason you cannot open them today is aerodynamics.

There are many ways to power a vehicle by electricity, of course. There are other battery types, hydrogen - heck, even compressed air. The issue is not that it cannot be done but that there is a lack of governmental action to make it happen. As long as we are all free to not change then we will continue guzzling dino…

“OK, but understand that you’re trying to weigh unfalsifiable and nebulous future externalities with proven gains against poverty and quality of life that cheap energy has provided.”

The best move with major OS updates is to wait at least a couple of weeks for the bugs to be worked out first. Every major Microsoft Windows 10 release (and many small ones) have brought unwelcome issues that the elves in Redmond have had to clean up after the fact. Let someone else discover them for you.

Has a rotary engine been used in mass-produced generators previously? If so, were they truly better for “maintenance and longevity”?

Well, add to the list:

“Beyond a reasonable doubt” means something entirely different in Texas.

Cause ‘me(r)ica says we don’t care bout facts no more.

The Concord got 16.7 MPG - in other words, they would need four times the amount of fuel for supersonic travel of the same distance. Good luck with that one.

My worst nightmare: Getting stuck in an airplane for 19 hours and waking up in Newark.

Counterpoint:

I was not aware we were living in a binary world. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

“... once Japan lost its endless supply of cash to boost its high-tech aspirations when the Bubble Era came to a resounding close with the economic crash of 1991, all of this stuff disappeared.”