Keep in mind that the average price of vehicle sold in the US is $32k. That means that roughly half the vehicles sold cost less than that amount. A single, not particularly well equipped Tesla is twice that, and I don't think that most families could easily double their automotive budget.

Pumps in the US deliver fuel at a rate between 5 and 10 gallons per minute. If you have a 13-15 gallon tank, you could well fill it under 2. You should be able to fill up most vehicles (save for trucks/suvs with 20+ gallon tanks) at most pumps in well under 5 minutes.

Well, that's one way to look at it. Another is that this is the most common excused used by managers everywhere when confronted with poor performance (We don't have enough funding, we have poor training and equipment, look at our bold new strategy, hey shiny thing over there for the love of god stop talking about the…

Very well, oh grand master of the caps lock. Here is the single paragraph addressing cultural issues

That factors in how much damage is done, but not which roads it is done to.

The license plate reader system around Dallas seems to work rather well, it's fast enough not to require any slowing down, and powerful enough to handle people who don't have any accounts. Something like that should be good enough in theory (assuming its scanning just about every intersection, which might prove…

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So we need a scale model of the white house to train agents not drunkenly crash vehicles into the gates?

You're right of course, but the effect is more severe if you only pay your tax once a year.

The problem with that plan is that it does not distribute the revenue proportionally to the road wear. In other words, someone can have a vehicle registered in state A, pay their tax in state A, but drive around in state A, B, and C, with B and C not getting anything to compensate. It isn't a very big problem (but it…

How much of the current revenue stream is used to pay the retirement benefits of the people who used to patrol our highways? Infrastructure spending can be a rather inclusive category.

I assume that most 2 car household are families with more than one driver, and that single member household with more than one (running and registered) car are in the minority. So yes, in this circumstance and electric car starts to make a great deal of sense. But I'm willing to bet majority of working families cannot…

I've been hearing about battery swaps for quiet a few years now. Lets wait till those are actually available before counting their merits.

Tesla may talk like they are going to replace the ICE and revolutionize transportation, but what they are doing is making an expensive, gadgety luxury car aimed at city dwellers who most likely have a second, gas powered vehicle. In that environment, their car makes a great deal of sense, or at least as much sense as…

I'd like to agree with everything you are saying, except for one thing. 250 miles of range would be perfectly fine, if a. superchargers were much more plentiful, and b. I could get a full charge in 2 minutes instead of 20.

Lets see here, the nearest supercharger station to my house is 231 miles away (thanks awesome tesla map!). So I'd be stranded before making it there, and thats assuming that it was on the way to wherever I was going.

It's good to provide grants and loans to programs that could not succeed in the absence of those loans, and will succeed in their presence. It makes less sense to finance industries that could handle their own financing, or to fund efforts that turn into failures. Self interest provides the decision makers direct…

The second issue is the options that are related to each other in mystifying ways. There was a time not long ago when you had to have an auto transmission to have Bluetooth in your Mazda, for example.

I think its fair to say there are a great many shills in both parties.

With the exception of government provided bail outs, those are all funds raised voluntarily, from willing participants.