Seems like a tempting place to use it so you can look around at Yosemite instead of driving.

Driving a stick in traffic doesn’t make me wish I had an automatic, it makes me wish everyone else had a stick.

I was going to make some elaborately constructed joke about just cutting down a nearby tree to repair frame damage if you take it off any sweet jumps, but it appears to have a metal frame???!?

I could almost certainly sell my Lotus Elise for more than I bought it for 8 years ago, despite that it’s got 45,000 additional (hard) miles on it.

Saying “Electric cars are inherently anti-American” is a perfectly reasonable thing to say if you think America is fundamentally a shitty place for shitty people. It’s perfectly understandable to think that these days, but it’s a very cynical take. 

You know what, I actually do need a new mobo *and* PSU...

I really wish the SCCA and SEMA would throw their weight around more as lobbying/advocacy groups for this sort of thing.

The new vs used debate I won’t get in to, but if not new then it’s *definitely* worth spending more on a used car up front.

I don’t know why people put so much weight on number of owners, especially since the numbers on a carfax report are inflated anyway. You can easily have a 2-owner car that shows six on the carfax because it tracks the chain of dealer custodies.

But the thing is, software doesn’t need to be “repaired” as such. Patches & upgrades from the OEM, sure, but that’s not what people are complaining about. It’s when one of the mechanical bits & bobs needs to get replaced, the software won’t allow the mechanical repair to happen without OEM intervention. Say a sensor…

I’m in an even smaller minority because I think if there’s any blame to assign at all it falls on Max.

I have no idea why amphibious cars aren’t more popular. Seems like virtually every traffic problem in major metropolitan areas can be traced to some bridge-related bottleneck over a river. How great would it be to cut an hour out of your commute time just by driving over the river!

The Mongolia special was among the best TV in years, fullstop. 

Fair point, but if it’s such astronomical odds they could comp his repair under warranty, or at least offer to buy the battery pack for remanufacturing (and/or failure analysis) instead of just saying “that’ll be sixteen thousand dollars.”

Hmm, maybe so. Seems to be a bit of a pickle, since water is not a great thing to mix with electricity OR Lithium. I imagine “proper procedure” for a Tesla fire would be to fully smother it with an appropriate extinguishant so it cannot access any further oxygen. Burying it in sand should be pretty effective. Though I…

Making a non-replaceable critical part out of brittle plastic on the leading edge is just an incredible series of bad design decisions that probably saved them like $3 per car.

If you do it properly, it should take zero water to put out a Tesla fire, because you would be using class C or D extinguishant.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9125010/

I’ve seen people (LOTS of people) who will encounter a big dark heavy rainstorm and subsequently turn on their flashers and slow down to 40 mph but leave their actual running lights off. It’s completely dumbfounding. 

“I often wonder why more women don’t carry guns.”