My dad’s been working in the medical device software industry for decades, and since last summer had been working for a young tech company in Seattle newly branching into that industry. That start-up mentality of “move fast and break things”, of beta testing on end users, is absolutely present there, and he recently…

I’m okay with it for new companies, or very old companies that’ve always done it (though I can’t think of any off the top of my head), and I’m okay with model names being done that way. Lexus, though, has a well-known logo, and largely positive associations with it. Why dump it?

I think that’s the burning-est question (pardon the pun), because one of the biggest draws for the Kona EV is range for the price, but if that’s being done at the cost of battery integrity, either the price or the range will have to change, unless LG or Hyundai figure something else out. 16 out of 77,000 seems like a…

Or, you know, from 35,000ft in the air.

Hyundai probably has more experience making EVs. I still don’t know why any car manufacturer would abet Apple’s entrance into the industry, unless they for whatever reason have no interest selling EVs, themselves. At this point, that feels tantamount to not wanting to sell cars, at all.

So, what I’m hearing is that there’s nothing intrinsically harder about building things in Mass, or the U.S. generally. It’s just that various people prioritize their own interests over the public interest, and no one in the public sector is sufficiently interested in actually building the kind of infrastructure that…

Look, all I’m saying is that the GLX’s cost somehow magically dropped by about a billion dollars once they produced a practical plan for the thing, instead of treating it like it needed to be a luxury item. Likewise for other things the OP mentioned; costs for things like EMUs and electrification are deliberately…

More to the point, all the people associated with having to build new or better transit don’t want to do anything, so estimates will be sandbagged til they cost multiples of what they cost in other countries without any legitimate justification, people will be outraged by the supposed costs, and then they won’t happen…

Working in hospitals since covid started, it’s been really, really hard to remain completely sympathetic with people like that. You really just want to take them by the shoulders and shake ‘em; taking such stupid and unnecessary risks when we’ve had a 9/11's-worth of deaths every day for the past year has certainly…

Gotta say, moving from New Hampshire to Oregon as I did this past summer, I was amazed at just how many older cars manage to survive out here. What really tips you off to the difference is the presence of lots of average kinds of cars from the 80's and 90's here. All that stuff has long since rotted away in New…

Honestly, I like both of those generations, though detest the AMG cladding/rocker panel nonsense on either. The most recent generation, however, is completely indistinguisable from the outside from a C-Class coupe. It’s like Mercedes just said, “people want bland and big, so that’s what we’ll give ‘em.” I’m not crazy…

Won’t ever forget my 24 hour train ride back one Christmas from home to grad school in Cleveland. It turned into such a long experience because the replacement crew that was supposed to take over the train in Buffalo was...I don’t know, late? Or absent altogether? Additionally, past Erie, PA, one of the doors in the…

Right, hence my saying maybe we could get excited relative to what else is around in the 2020's, but that points out that it’s relatively interesting, not absolutely interesting.

My thought, too. I like Hyundai, but a 7000rpm 4-cylinder is only exciting for them. I think basically every other major automaker (maybe except Chrysler) has, at some point, built something with a redline >7000rpm. Maybe we could be excited because it’s happening in the 2020's, but...kinda, why bother with such a…

The largest source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions is livestock production...which consumes a lot of grain that could very easily be going to feed other people. I still eat meat, but very infrequently; especially with the number of meat alternatives available, it was a fairly easy sacrifice to make. 

No, can’t get Smaht Pahk with the hybrid for some reason, but I wouldn’t want it anyway. Got the base trim, durable, comfortable cloth seats and all.

Lifetimie average over ~10k mile is 51mpg so far. From this almost 200in long car with a big back seat and trunk. I’m very pleased so far.

Honestly, I might be interested in these types of cars if they weren’t all such gas hogs. Comfort was definitely a priority when I bought a new car, but efficiency and style came first. Say what you will about its styling, but the 2020 Sonata hybrid was just the right combination to my eyes: flowing lines, waft-away-th…

Technically, neither are hydrogen or batteries.

Some things are just better melted. Ask anything with cheese in it.