My first car with actual cupholders (because prior to it I had only owned a 1980 Camaro and a 1986 Camaro IROC-Z, both of which had no such thing as a cupholder) was a 1992 Chevy Beretta GT and this is where the cupholder lived:

In the end I think it’s just all about saving yourself time. It might be fun the first time you’re on a long trip to stretch your legs, maybe get lunch, while your car is charging up. But if you have to do that every few hours on what otherwise would be a 14 hour cross country trip? Not feasible.

When it was fairly new and we didn’t know better I recommended the Cadillac Catera to my wife’s grandma. She went right out and bought one and really only ended up keeping it like a year because she hated it. She could never tell me to my face that she hated it cause she was too nice... but she never asked for my car…

I have to say Staying Alive is really not a bad movie if you look at it in the context of how Tony’s life has changed since his more gang-like days from Saturday Night Fever. A Saturday Night Fever sequel it is, but is not. My wife loves this movie or I might never have seen it myself but I have to say it is actually…

I had a 1986 IROC-Z28 and a mullet... (in 1992 when I got the car) so I suppose my stereotype was true!

I used to think he was doing mostly good for society so I was okay with a lot of his antics but ever since he started whining about having to pay taxes like the rest of us - yeah, fuck off Elon!

More and more people are paying for charging. In some cases, pretty high prices. I just can’t see this taking off unless there is also a monetary incentive involved - in which case, hell yes I think this would be a great idea - so I think they need to include payment transfer in this patent as well.

Big part of all the problems stems from the crane operators. I read somewhere that they make 250K a year and have such a strong union they can work at any pace they please so there is no incentive for them to speed up to unload and load trucks.

Update: So I was curious and had to know for sure. I guess the Wright Flyer did eventually fly in Ohio. Found a pic of it flying in Dayton in 1905 but this was 2 years after Kitty Hawk. So I guess it’s valid for them to put the Wright Flyer on the license plate but I think the fact that they botched it just, well,…

The wright brothers designed and built everything in Ohio but Kitty Hawk was the place selected for the first flights due to the wind. Once they proved flight was possible they started an Aviation company in Dayton, Ohio which is where the aviation industry pretty much started. I think that some people are offended by…

I was about to sell my wife’s 2013 Sonata because it went up in value by about 5K over the previous year... but alas, it would just cost us more to get a new or even a used car to replace it so just gonna ride this out and be glad my 2018 Santa Fe is running fine too.

Welp that does it for me. Goodbye Rivian. I no longer care about your success. I will say that if there is ever a car I own that requires a subscription, it will be bought with a visa gift card only a single month at a time on an as-needed basis much like I do now with Netflix. No fucking way would they…

I had a 2003 Sonata and that thing was actually a great and completely reliable car. Not a single quality issue with that thing. I since have gotten a couple more Hyundai’s and, man, just recalls all over the place - mostly with the engines. Definitely seeing a reduction in quality over the years after they’d done so…

Yep. I want one. What would be even more impressive is me being able to talk my wife into paying 70K+ for one of those.

Seriously, just make it look like the 1980 Camaro but updated and DEFINITELY with better visibility and I would be all over it - even an EV version would be great!

Yeah I would buy that version. You should work for Kia.

I honestly feel like it is all just for bragging rights of the owners and because it’s a cool thing to show people (“look ma, no hands”) and that is all it has been good for so far. I have said for a long time we’d be better off using all that tech to be a second set of eyes for us and you seem to agree. So instead of…

Let’s forget anti-grav tech for a moment and think about ion thrusters pointed at the ground...  I know scientists have flown a plane using ion thrust but all you physicists and engineers out there need to figure out how much power would be necessary to use ion thrusters for a hover board and get on that shit!

I thought they were looking at being a provider to other manufacturers of the tech and the map database. Problem is that all the other manufacturers have also decided to do their own R&D and so we have the same story where a hodge-podge of tech that is all good or bad in varying degrees from each manufacturer is…

I think it comes down to the database and Tesla wins there just out of sheer amount of data. However, I could see Waymo teaming up with other manufacturers and catching up quickly. A shared database is a win-win for everyone but, once-again, new technology is hindered by companies wishing to stay proprietary.