I think B is a far greater obstacle for many urban dwellers.

I’ve flown internationally for decades and found that immigration officials range from the officious and efficient to the unfriendly and suspicious. Strangely enough the worst offenders tend to be minorities(!).

The biggest caveat to the Tesla success story is their incessant hype-/con-man and his cult boosting the stock price way beyond any realistic value. Were it not for that, Tesla would’ve folded a while ago.

The advantage Hyundai had over VinFast is that Hyundai had actually built vehicles before. All of VinFast’s vehicles are either re-bodied BMWs or brand new platforms, so they don’t have the deep understanding of the car manufacturing world.

This is the biggest problem - all American airlines are trying to make money through ancillary fees, because it’s part of our broken capitalist system where companies need to show continuous growth and revenue. No longer is it acceptable to have stable revenue; no, now you must demonstrate continuous growth. How do…

Compared to Trump, a bar of soap is smart. So...

But then we end up with JD Vance, who seems actually smart/competent.

I mean, if you like choking to death from the exhaust right by the driver’s side window...

This car is not a collectible, nor is it desirable. It may be a rare combo, but it’s a mass-production car and not worth what the seller is asking. ND.

How unfortunate.

Add Tesla to that list. Musk didn’t found Tesla either; he was the money guy who threw out the founders after and bullied them via a lawsuit into making him a co-founder.

I look forward to Trump stiffing him like he did Guiliani and the rest of his crew. There’s no honor among thieves.

I remember that! That would be amazing, especially in this age of overstimulation.

I haven’t seen many infotainment systems that can be turned off completely, aside from some Audis (oh the irony!).

Why do car designers insist on putting more lights inside the car? On the dash, on the door, in the footwells, on the wheel...

Amazing how after they won all these conspiracy theories magically vanished...

Keep the population dumb, uneducated, and poor so you can abuse the crap out of them and tell them they should feel lucky to have a job at all.

It’s ugly and shows lazy design or design from an agency that’s resting on its laurels. Shrinking the DLO just makes visibility out as bad as a late-model Camaro (RIP), the (lack of) interior design is reprehensible at this price, and the exterior design is simultaneously overdone (the front) and undercooked (the…

You do realize that NASA is funded separately from DHS and the USCIS, right?

This is the part I don’t get. Where the fuck do you live where needing a bulletproof vehicle is actually a priority? Medellin? Moscow?