They’ve had a few of the early prototypes available for sale or rent or something in Vancouver. First time I saw one at a stoplight I was legitimately blinking for 30 seconds trying to figure out what kind of an optical illusion could make half a car disappear from my view.

So long, little car. I guess I have a “collector” item now. Here’s mine patiently waiting for me/stalking me through the restaurant window:

This punched me somewhere deep in the feels.

In a similar boat to you - I’m a teen librarian for the city library and I also play video games, which puts me in contact with a lot of older teens (16-19).

Oh man you just took me down the memory lane.

I don’t have a problem with making getting a license a more difficult process, considering how many adults on the road are absolute dogshit drivers. If the teens and young people can actually be expected to learn to drive, then that’s better.

I was in a similar situation. I was a passenger 10 accidents, 2 of them nearly fatal, by the time I was 13. One of them left me dangling above the roof of the SUV and I had to lower myself down and kick the door out of the twisted frame to get out. There’s no PTSD there for the most part, except for going through…

We’ll just go with whichever is heavier.

But is it just from power from the panels or do they have the capability to recharge the battery? If they do, wouldn’t that only be limited by how long you sit out in the sun? If they don’t, then I guess it’s a hard limit for this specific car.

I mean this actually makes a ton of sense, especially if they can make it so that the car can charge when parked. You drive out to a place with outdoor parking, park, go about your business. I know that current solar tech isn’t exactly quick or powerful but several hours at the beach or a day out in the park (or, I…

Not only is it a bad take, it’s a bad take he was so proud of, he had to post it twice - just to ensure everyone on the internet read his bad take.

I have a friend like this too. He drives an hour and a half to work every day, and was complaining to me about having to do longer drives for work. So, being the librarian that I am, I put him together a whole list of audiobooks he can listen to in between music - a mix of fiction for his tastes and non-fiction for…

Because you’re flippantly suggesting subjugating and restricting the autonomy of a whole group of people based on your own confirmation bias, you colossal asshole.

Meanwhile here in my part of Canada, we pretty quickly passed a law that said that if your kids are not vaccinated, they could not attend public school until their vaccinations were in order.

I think you hit the nail on the head with “Cycling Proficiency Test.”

Yeah I was going to say, I know the pain. I bought a much nicer car than I originally set out to buy (I was gonna get a beater, but ended up getting a lightly-used nice car instead...) and at first I was extremely afraid of driving it because it was this big new purchase and it was almost immaculate because the person…

There’s a massive cognitive dissonance here (or lying, whichever). “Ride-sharing” is NOT the way to reducing car ownership - it’s a taxi service and information collection, but it doesn’t reduce the need for a private vehicle because it is financially unfeasible to rely on Lyft/Uber the same way you rely on your car.…

There is a not-for-profit car co-op (that I am a part of) in my city that started out exactly this way. Originally it was just a bunch of apartment dwellers who lived in a high-density urban area who wanted occasional access to a car, so they all shared the costs of owning a couple cars. I guess they kept getting more…

Our only car is a two-seater (my partner has a motorcycle). We rent a car any time I need more seats or cargo space than that. It probably comes up a few times a year at most, and usually it can be solved with a $15 three hour cargo van or pick-up rental through my local car co-op (that $15 includes gas). One time we…

They’re replacing the Car2Go smarts here with GLA’s and CLA’s and jacking the price up 20-30% (incidentally, this is how I got to find out that the GLA is a piece of shit. Weird seating position, less front passenger room than a smart car, and the one we were in was falling apart after half the time in the car2go…