The only downside, sadly, is that if you have to deal with a human being to swap the battery. I’m a 6'2" 200lb male and I still feel a bit vulnerable at most gas stations off I-95; the last thing I want to imagine is my wife or daughter having to pull into a place like that at 11pm and have some sketchy looking…

You purchase the car without the pack. You get whatever the dealer has charged when you drive off the lot and batteries are standardized across all manufacturers. Often, electronics you buy come “batteries not included” and you can go anywhere and buy a D, C, AA, etc. cell and it works just fine.

You wouldn’t buy the pack. All packs would be a leased where there would be an up-charge for the beefy pack and a down-charge for the light pack. And given how people love not spending money when they don’t have to, only lugging a light pack where you spend less money and commit less crunch to the highways would be…

As a long time New Yorker, they do not look funny to me as we used to have them mandated in our state as well however it longer is (for probably almost 20 years now).  

Eliminate all dealers. You have to order straight from the factory.

Just because cell phones existed, doesn’t make the iPhone Apple’s take on them, it was indeed a new invention – there were not phones like that before. The iPhone was actually a result of the iPad’s development, which had relevant patents for it filed in 2004 (6 years before its release). And the iPad was the…

Who decided a mouse should look like a hockey puck? I don’t remember these being comfortable at all.

My experience with most streaming service interfaces leads me to believe that the people creating and approving the interfaces HATE watching streaming services and really want the consumer to HATE it as well.

this could be down to 3, It gets even muddier when you go into the packages, engines, transmissions, and tire packages.

Really a high-quality article you’ve written here, Bradley!

Buy an Outback XT. Lower it if the added 2" of height bothers you.

Thankfully, Toyota now builds the hot hatch that Subaru refuses to.

The value of the beachfront homes cannot be understated.

Maaaaaaaaaaybe its because they’re ugly, plastic lumps that generate zero excitement and have nowhere near the power to be classified as “performance” cars.

fuck em’

AI is going to be the next 3D movies. 

Tesla was on the path of breaking the mold of EVs before Musk showed up. And even if you credit him for getting the company off the ground, what is he doing for the company lately?

Weird how in this era where everyone has a 4k video camera in their pocket at all times, there still isn’t any remotely plausible evidence of intelligent UFO visits.

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Share what? There’s nothing to share. Law or no law. But let’s entertain all the possibilities, courtesy of popular TV, movie and tale-pushing media.