re: “... Even combined, student and auto loans are only 30% of the debt that caused the last crash.”

Except a recession can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. If enough people remember the last one (2008), they will ‘tighten their belts,’ hold off selling their houses, buying a new car, etc. and, sure enough, we’ll get a recession.

re: “... nobody knows the bottom ...”

re: ‘... yet unemployment is “really low”...’

re: “Reducing cafe mpg standards from 46 to 37 mpg will stop rising car prices? Ha! I’m assuming the GOP thinks that reducing regulations will fix the slumping car market. It will not.”

I don’t see why pro- and con- BEV sides argue; they aren’t assault weapons and nobody is talking about banning BEVs. Buy one if you need/want/like them, and don’t if you don’t.

I just did a 1,300 mile roundtrip from Modesto, CA to Boise, ID. I didn’t see a single Supercharger or other charging station at any of our half-dozen stops, or along the road (of course, I wasn’t really looking, but if a station had one it would have been on the 200ft signs they erect along the highways, gas stations…

re: “It’s mainly a question of how fucking stupid his board wants to look before we get there.”

re: “Planes have ATC to keep them -literally- miles apart.”

I believe the MAX abortion was conceived and designed in the prior CEO’s reign, and he was a spreadsheet-gazing bottom-line-only MBA (or so I’m told). Doesn’t excuse Muilenburg, and someone’s head should roll if only to put successors on notice.

re: “... the FAA expects the 737 MAX to be flying again by December. ...”

“Whew! We’re off the hook!” - every Mustang owner everywhere*

IIRC, the Japanese essentially subsidize their car makers by basically forcing owners to buy a new car every few years (‘safety,’ ‘emissions,’ yada yada).  Might the Chines do the same?

“Safety: the only car known to decapitate at least one smug owner in autopilot mode. Darwin qualifier, it seems.”

re: “The problem comes with Tesla’s marketing that leads people to believe that it is a true autopilot. Where they can stop paying attention to the road.”

“... those geezers will die out....”

“It always seemed curious to me that an oil company doesn’t offer all the various TRS-80 specific chargers that manufacturers require”

“Heres a thought - maybe use that money to build and develop products instead of making mostly already well off people just .01% more well off.”

Not sure what’s worse, square wheel wells or octagonal?

Are we ready for the Mercedes ‘Slider?’