I read to the end and still have the same thought I did when I read the intro, “who thinks a promotional video released to Top-Gear is going to be completely accurate?”

I read smalleyxb122's comment, was going to post that I was going to say the same exact thing, read your post, and well...

None of my cars have any cameras, but I still turn to check my blind spot even though I have my mirrors adjusted “right”. I can track a vehicle from the rear-view to the side-view to my periphery without turning my head. I still turn to check.

I agree, there is no line. One can argue that the SUV was the original “crossover” between a passenger vehicle with the underpinnings of an offroad truck. Too much dicking about with words is what people do

Customers are the worst fucking people on the planet.

3rd Gear: I get it, but at some point, just making more ventilators doesn’t help without people and space to use them. Industry can’t bail us out of this, because it’s not a problem now of not having enough stuff, it’s a problem of assholes not doing what they should be. Having another million ventilators won’t make…

In the sense that commercial airplanes are flying buses and boats are floating cars, this is a flying car.

Airplanes are more flying buses and hot air balloons are flying Segways. Helicopter is the only true flying car, and this is what this is, a fucking helicopter. So tired of flying car nonsense. The only flying car I will accept is something from the Fifth Element 

I’m pretty sure we call air based transportation a plane.

Does Ebay kick you off of the platform for not selling enough? Does Ebay itself dictate how you price the goods that you sell? Does Ebay say that you can’t sell on other platforms?

They do not fit the first, by any means at all. Uber controls their cars, their rates, and (indirectly) their hours/rate of work. This is clear to anyone that’s even taken a passing glance at what an Uber driver has to do in order to be a driver.

You get to set your ‘rates’ as you sell things on Ebay, Uber/Lyft drivers don’t is one huge difference.

ebay doesn’t dictate how much you sell your stuff for.  ebay does not kick you off or penalize you if you’re not selling enough stuff.

2. is definitely a yes, drivers do not set their own rates, the “tech” companies set the rates and can penalize drivers for refusing too many rides. if the “tech” companies truly want to keep it a contractor relationship then they need to allow those contractors to set their own rates and remove penalties for refusing…

um, no, they don’t pass 1) or 2). They have some control over drivers in that they penalize them if they aren’t accepting “enough” rides. They also control what they pay drivers; drivers are not free to negotiate their own rates. 

Uber and Lyft set requirements for what kind of cars they can drive, and they set the fares for the rides. They have a lot of control over the drivers.

I don’t think that is nearly as clear cut as you suggest, nor apparently do the lawyers and courts involved.

Wash your hands

5th: Blockchain isn’t complicated. Basically everybody in a system has a copy of a ledger, and for a transaction to go through, everybody’s ledgers need to agree with each other. It’s just that “computers doing homework” isn’t very interesting, and the actual useful applications are very technical and boring and not…