Man I miss the day’s of posts from T. R.

I miss Tyler.

Good lord, that’s a ton of money for what is a terrible, terrible, awful car.

Wrangler is a sports car? I suppose it’s a Jeep thing. I don’t want to understand.

However, no one makes a Wrangler like that anymore. Every single one I see on a lot are $35k with power everything

It would make a good city car next to your Bugatti when you don’t feel like having your chauffeur drive you in your Rolls Royce and the Ferrari is freshly detailed and you don’t want to get dirt on it’s tires.

Automation frees up more jobs to do other things.

Goddamn it, we gotta stop this progress shit! Nothing good comes from it.

Trucking business will never go away because truckers are always needed, especially given that we are now moving into an e-commerce world, where everyone expects their stuff to be delivered in 2 days. Not every company would be able to afford new trucks with new tech. And you can’t progress technology without pissing…

Assuming they want to start with existing tech to prove capability. And I don’t think Google is interested in designing and manufacturing truck cabs, just the tech.

I work for an economics firm. If you go anywhere in the country, chances are there will be more job postings for truckers than almost anything else. I think the out-of-work truckers that this will create (and I know it’s genuinely a good idea) will be a major force for social disruption in the next fifteen years.

This won’t stick.

So, what sounds should I add to my ICE minivan, ICE station wagon, and ICE roadster since I’ve also had people step in front of each of them without any attempt to gauge if it was safe to step into a lane in which cars travel? Did you read my comment?

Unfortunately, In what world.

I drive a Tesla. I’ve been in a Costco parking lot unloading a cart full of everything you fill a Costco cart with, right next to another group of people who were unloading their car. I finished first, closed the hatch (loudly), returned my cart, walked right past them to open my door, climbed in, shut the door, and…

On most normal vehicles you hear more tire noise than engine noise anyways. When the CRV is doing 20mph through the neighborhood, I’m certainly not deafened by the sound of straight pipes.

Tires make a ton of noise.

Separating this from current politics and thinking solely about the progress of civilization, I’m not sure that artificially adding noise pollution to a technology that emits none is a reasonable thing to do. I would have to believe there would be a health benefit to reducing the racket - imagine a city completely free…

They are unreliable as hell but they’re SO DAMNED FUN. They’re trophy wives in car form.

You do realize a hot hatch is traditionally front wheel drive, right?

Keep yelling!!!! Or maybe mind your own fucking business and report the shoulder drivers to law enforcement.