Get them while you can. The writing is on the wall that the publishers plan on phasing out physical media, as can be seen by Disney pulling all discs from store shelves in Australia / NZ.

See the Consumer Reports list of least reliable cars that they published here yesterday.

You mean, are we ready to keep slavery going? That, unfortunately, is always a “yes”. At least by avoiding fossil fuels we can reduce the environmental issues and some of the wars - though slavery keeps right on going.

Link to supporting data, please.

Yes, because the time people waste commuting by automobile is more valuable than a human life. /s

“People laugh endlessly about hydrogen, but it is BY FAR the best route if we decide we care about human rights.”

In Washington, any street corner is legally a crossing point for pedestrians, FWIW. But it is risky since most auto drivers just don’t give a shit.

My five person family travels once every summer to Pacific City, Oregon (~300 miles) for our vacation. It is neither “non-stop” (kids ensure that) nor “1/3 of the way across the country”. When we stop for petrol we also get food simultaneously and have a particular place we stop to permit that. Would it matter to me…

That is not true. The majority of Americans rarely (if ever) go on a long non-stop drive like that.

Average is 400 miles on a tank and all of the cars you listed were partially EVs (“Hybrid”) or diesel, so they certainly do not fall into the definition of a standard gasoline ICE vehicle. But, to your point — the number of 400 mile range EVs is still very small, though I do not believe that is what is primarily…

500+ miles of range? I don’t know the numbers but I am going to guess you are talking about a minority of ICE vehicles. (My Honda Prelude gets ~300.) And the number of people that fix their own cars? Talk about a minority of that minority. And, FWIW, I have fixed the only “problem” that showed up on my 2014 Nissan…

Duel is “okay”, at best. My daughter and I watched it a year ago (we are huge Poltergeist and Jaws fans) and were surprised only by the fact that it did not remotely match the expectations others had set for it.

According to the manufacturers at the time it would. Which is similar to the situation we are in today.

OPEC manipulates the price to their liking by changing their production amount. Even if the U.S. was 100% BEV, the oil prices would be set by the global price — we would just refine significantly less unleaded gasoline and, instead, ship our oil production overseas.

In urban areas (at least here on the west coast) there are public chargers everywhere. Even so, I do question whether I would own an EV if I had to pay something resembling gas prices (per mile) to drive one - or, if I did, I would expect the same easy credit card payment system that are used at gas stations. Instead,…

Your point makes sense when it is a level playing field. China with their zero respect of IP and creative interpretation of labor practices has a way to manufacture goods at a price that Europe and the U.S. cannot compete with. Clearly we look the other way with an AliExpress Totoro shower curtain but are not so…

Yes, having experienced the rail system in Europe, I would happily take twice the travel time to be able to enjoy the travel versus doing sky-high sardine impersonations.

Those stats do not compare the same type of miles driven. Humans need to drive vehicles on all roads in all situations whereas “Full Self Driving” is limited to the safest / easiest driving situations.

We could save ~30% of the gasoline consumed on freeway travel by enforcing a 55 MPH (or less) speed limit. Simple to do when typed out like that, extremely difficult to do in the real world.

Shhh. Don’t tell Elon. His middle school antics combined with his middle school level of tech knowledge brings pure joy.