Going to walk around the rabbit hole of U.S. Government economics, but it can be reasonably argued that it does come from thin air, actually. We borrow the vast majority of U.S. debt from ourselves. Just an FYI.

I also like the possibility that the battery packs could be upgraded to higher density options as battery tech improves.

To be fair, “Autopilot” can only be engaged during the safest miles of a trip. Technically, we should expect accidents during non-autopilot miles driven to get worse as the easy miles are taken over by Tesla’s system.

Definitely go get your flu (and covid booster) shot. However, there are some important reasons that strongly indicate this will be another “blink and you’ll miss it” flu season:

It’s 2021. Motives are incidental.

Couldn’t Razer simply take the installer download offline to solve this until they get the non-buggy version ready?

I want to vote for a ballot measure that ends all ballot measures.

The Corvette and NSX are quite distinct automobiles and I suspect are cross-shopped about as often as a Camaro and an M3.

This is an excellent take and also may underscore why Honda was first betting big on HFC (hydrogen fuel cells) as the replacement to their ICE model.

Technically true, though there are lossless formats (Apple Lossless, for example) that typically reduce 1411 CD quality to below that rate.

Perhaps, but virtually all of that supposed evidence is missing in this post.

22mpg says otherwise. They might not want the Maverick comparison (for this obvious reason) but Hyundai could learn a great deal from Ford since they need a hybrid (and perhaps a full EV) version.

Was a fave of mine, too, until I watched Seaspiracy on Netflix. That typed — they regularly have quirky and unique vehicles, and embracing this fugly fascinating looking SUV fits their mold.

This is very tangential (my apologies) but, if the U.S. is going to truly hit the CO2 reduction goals, isn’t this going to happen to every ICE out there in the future?

Or instead of inefficient, slow, and expensive battery magnets, Apple could just release an iPhone with a user-swappable battery.

I think you are on to something important. Maybe there should be a mandatory signal on all vehicles that must be “on” whenever they are in self-driving mode?

I don’t know. Hitting the Google the first link I looked at showed us 37th in the world overall. The second link showed us 12th out of 12 ranked. Maybe the results would improve if I worked down the list, but having experienced the health care system in Australia (elementary school), the U.K. (high school) and…

Every city in this country has a nasty history (and present) with racism. But Philly tipped the election, gave us the anti-fascist orange demon called Gritty, and with just 10 residents cleared out the a couple hundred assholes. So, with all due respect, I’m taking a moment to say “God bless America, and fuck yeah,…

My understanding is the batteries are re-used for non-automotive purposes, such as a battery backup. Yes, eventually they will no longer be effective for even stationary purposes, requiring disassembly for component elements but, as I understand it, that is not until they have served a new life outside the…

Weather impacting citrus crops have been around for as long as we have had citrus crops. Heck, it is a major plot point in 1983's comedy “Trading Places”. 114 degrees in my suburb of Seattle that is normally in the 70s? Never happened since record keeping started.