What was a game changer for me was when I got an old 1989 Honda Civic in college and it not only had one key for everything (unlike the GM cars I had in high school).

Where’s the “Our Garbage Infrastructure” tag?

Yep. Even without the fires, continuing the Bolt platform just doesn’t make sense. The slow 50 kW DC fast charging speeds really make it uncompetitive compared to new EVs offerings.

That steering wheel could go. Full Self Driving works perfectly 100% of the time, right?

Sure, as soon as Ford renames it to the Probe.

Elon is probably using the computers to mine Dogecoin.

Also, luxury cars tend to have the newest tech, and that is one place where Tesla is very competitive with BMW/Merc/Audi.

Never buy a car from a company that gets its nickname from its spare parts division.

Yeah, I had a Prius for a rental in once and it did just fine merging on to the LA freeways, which is a Mad Max-esque experience when it isn’t bumper-to-bumper rush hour. The only thing I had issues with was the annoying shift lever.

Still waiting for the production Fiat 500 with a Hellcat engine.

Hell, just in 2006 you had tech journalist James Kim die when he took the wrong road through the passes in Oregon during the winter:

Seems like it would be easy enough to have things like forest roads and fire roads flagged in the database, with the default option being to NOT route people through them in the navigation settings (just like you can route around tolls roads). When you put in a route that NEEDS to take that road, it tells you there is…

Seriously. What do you do when you break up with your girlfriend and are dating again? Even if that not what GF is supposed to mean, that’s how people will read it.

It’s a travesty that Forza Horizon still hasn’t added the Yugo as a playable car.

Still not quite as bad as the guy (assuming it is a guy) who is proud that he has a girlfriend.

1st Gear: The tax credit ran out for Teslas at the beginning of 2020, and they are still selling so well enough that wait times are several months, despite the prices being raised significantly this year.

Without Dieselgate, VW wouldn’t have built out the Electrify America charging network, which is the fast charging network that Ford and other non-Tesla EV manufacturers are depending on to compete with Tesla’s Supercharger network.

This will probably happen, but the challenge is getting cities to build out that infrastructure any time soon, now that COVID has left a lot of them with budget issues. Maybe the infrastructure bill will help with some of that.

What’s especially awful about him is that he is a gay Republican, supporting a party that would probably love to see Obergefell overturned.