Toyota would only buy Tesla for technology patents and American factory space. I don’t think Toyota would tolerate the corporate culture, engineering shenanigans, and the poor quality control of Tesla. Since automobiles take a while to come through the pipeline, Toyota, Honda, and GM all look to have huge EV programs…

Once you get T9 typing down, a flip phone doesn’t require great visual acuity to operate. Smartphones are designed to put a lot of visual data on a small screen, which may not be preferable to some users. Some people aren’t going to care to look up restaurant reviews on their phone and just want a phone for phone…

Port Authority police should deploy officers to hand out tickets to vehicles hiding their plates. Just station them at the Manhattan portals in teams of two to read the registration, print the ticket, and hand them to the drivers. The rest of us are paying for these free trips, just like the rest of us paying for the…

I hope the next generation makes its way to the US. Hybrid or PHEV only, try to give the back a little more room for car seats, and slap a e-AWD motor on the rear axle. If people aren’t going to buy a Yaris, at least give them this tiny option. The current model didn’t really make a case for itself.

I think this is something that should have happened a few years ago. The apps should be separate though, due to Google Maps being generalist and Waze being more for the commuter and how it promotes user updates on the roads. Google Maps would not have the data it needs to give up to date road conditions without Waze…

My go-to camera for outdoors photography is my Canon ELPH 190IS. Got it about 3 years ago and gave my old Canon Powershot to my mom. There’s no replacement for displacement when talking about light gathering from a bigger lens and bigger sensor. Yeah, my camera is tiny, but it boots up faster than my phone camera, has…

It’s hard to take seriously the business of doctors promoting medications for off label use in unsupervised settings, or high risk medications unsupervised. Ketamine might provide a pathway to alleviate psychiatric symptoms, but a key part of the therapy is supervised integration in-office. A patient dissociating at…

Tow them to the breaking yards. Ships go there all the time to die.

Andy, people have posted their wishes, and half the entries you come in and seagull their idea with your hot take and fly off. Jalopnik readers populated a god-forsaken and much hated slideshow for you and your overlords and you go and poop on their peculiarities? Not cool, man.

The Emu Army will remember the sacrifice of these brave birds. One day, the virus will jump to humans and bird-kind shall be free!

The current responsibilities of the Space Force are aligned much of the previous Air Force tasks of early warning, tracking, and launch preparation. I’m concerned in the future, that once humanity starts longer duration and distance missions in space, the mindset needed is less Air Force, and more Navy. Spacecraft…

I’d hope their working rules regarding hours would get closer to those used in trucking. Which aren’t great, but do at least try to keep the drivers from being overtired and causing accidents. I want neither a truck driver or a railroad worker worked so hard that mistakes happen. Driving 14 hours straight sounds like…

I have a nice set of 10x50 binocs with long eye relief. Put on a tripod, I get the same results for objects in the Solar System. But as in the review, if you are looking at deep sky objects, there’s no replacement for displacement (aka aperture/lens area). 50mm is tiny, and this requires much longer exposure times for…

Stupid cyclist ran the red light, and was straddling the double yellow line as he blew the intersection. Technically, a cyclist does have the right to use the whole lane, but he was passing the stopped traffic by pedaling into oncoming traffic, and never slowed as he approached the intersection.

The gas tank in my AWD Matrix is 11.9 gallons, and average 25 mpg. You get used to it. Just feed it dino juice more often in smaller quantities. And don’t go live in the desert where gas stations are 50 miles away.

I mean, the Jeep Liberty stuck in the Pentastar midway through their product cycle. Eventually you need to at least do a major interior and exterior revamp in order to signal to the average customer that your auto company is moving ahead, unless it’s Caterham or Morgan. Not every potential customer keeps up to date…

The ship’s having work done by the shipyard, so the company that owns the President Wilson is paying the bills. Otherwise they’d probably tow the vessel out to an anchorage until it got claimed.

By the time we hear news of the Model S being redesigned, it’ll make the Nissan Frontier look like a spring chicken. The Cybertruck is a waste of resources better used towards improving manufacturing processes and making sure Tesla is ready to take advantage of changes in technology. Ford has a real EV pickup that…

Lucky people with clothes small enough for a carry-on. Yet another way tall people are discriminated against.

But the transportation bottleneck at LA and Long Beach ports need to be worked on somehow. Trucks stuck in traffic create pollution while doing no work. Reading the linked article, the expansion was canceled and no mention was made for additional plans to alleviate the traffic. The ports won’t disappear, and the cargo…