To add to this, a lot of the preemption enabled traffic lights have surveillance cameras. IR is invisible to the naked eye but very much visible to cameras, and all of them that I have seen do save and flag preemption events in the surveillance software, usually for debugging when they don’t work with emergency…

that’s the worst idea that i’ve ever heard.

Well I don’t want to be on the road with your beta test.

I hate Tesla but think we need a new word to describe recalls that are just OTA updates. The headlines are misleading and this is only going to get worse as more car manufacturers do fixes via the same tactic. The reason it’s called a recall in the first place is you’re supposed to bring the product back, which isn’t…

And many of those drivers now think that Putin is a good guy thanks to right-wing media. 

By contrast, all American pickups: “I am Putin. The left lane is Crimea.”

Once people understand that it’s impossible to be conservative and intelligent at the same time we might make progress

You seem to have mistaken the author for an actual journalist.

“Seven other states are have copy cat bills in various stages of possibly becoming laws.” And for some reason, you can’t list those seven states?

At this point I’d just want to see both Microsoft and Activision Blizzard die in a pit of fire.... don’t even care about the consequences anymore. It’s all so dirty and these companies went so low that I cannot help but feel disgusted by the whole thing. Microsoft not being able to buy the company just isn’t good…

Microsoft’s comment about Sony isn’t a ‘self own,’ it’s a deliberate framing of their primary market opponent as the dominant entity in the face of an anti-competition suit. MS is going to argue that the Xbox-ActiBlizz merger can’t be a monopolistic practice, because Sony’s PlayStation has bested them for most of two…

“Activision Blizzard has proven to be an extremely toxic company that has taken advantage of their employees in disgusting ways”

Which Sony merger has materially hurt Xbox? None, right? Not much of what Sony has bought has been available on Xbox. The vast majority of the studios that Sony has bought were making titles exclusively for the Playstation, usually for more than a decade, so Xbox lost nothing. And the few studios that Sony did buy…

I mean... It’s not ideal, but there is a difference between buying up the odd game and swallowing an entire publisher of the biggest game in the world plus tons of other IP which have all quietly gone under the radar while this whole CoD narrative drags along.

Not shocked that a luxury auto manufacturer of high-cost cars makes more profit per vehicle then mass-market commuter manufactures.

Those FSD subscriptions are paying off!

I’m not going to stan for Elon, everything you say might be true, but there’s no doubt that Tesla’s manufacturing costs are significantly lower than legacy carriers, they have no pensions to support, they use about 1 human to every 3 at the more traditional manufacturers, significantly driving down labor costs. I did…

An alternative to these rosy numbers exists. Tesla uses possibly fraudulent accounting practices to make themselves look completely differentiated in the marketplace. Elon has established a culture of fabrications and exaggerations to raise funds and boost his stock price to line his own pockets. The recent spate of…

The big thing that frustrates me is that many, many people buy pickups as a fashion accessory when they’d be better served by a unibody CUV / SUV or a minivan. A large CUV/SUV doesn’t feel cramped, but the pickup sure does make you feel bigger when you’re sitting up high and looking over a 5' tall hood. It’s all about…

CEOs/executives/celebrities often get drunk on their own credibility/power/influence and certainly work to keep themselves in their ivory towers, usually by splitting themselves from the necessity of the ‘cattle’ that enriched them and keep them enriched.

Trust me, these people rely on their brand image to stay…