the hope is to bring Uber’s work standards into closer parity with that of traditional cabs

So what you’re saying is: either way, missed opportunity. 

#COTD

If this was a German vehicle, that little window would’ve instead been a titanium flap with three hydraulic motors and a GPS-backed gyrometric actuator which, when deployed, could open and clear the way for the rollover hoops in 0.0003 milliseconds. Once activated, it would render the vehicle immobile due to the…

Now if someone could please explain what the rest of the car was for?

We should stop calling them “a rideshare platform”. They are an online taxi service. It is like a pimp with underage prostitutes calling themselves “an agent for child performers” and we are all like “Oh, if you say so that’s fine...”

I’m not sure I’d call him a proper automotive journalist. He was known to make stats up, just like when he was campaigning for Brexit. Like Brexit, he was only doing it because worked for him, and couldn’t care less about what he was actually doing.

I mean... can it get worse than what we already have?

A nation is about to give command of a nuclear arsenal to an automotive journalist.

Like Mother would ever let Pence be in a three-way! 

Republicans stand to gain more by regular corporate profiteering than by supporting any kind of expansion to this type of system. After all, these lawsuits can result in regular people getting a piece of the action, which is a non-starter for them.

It’s refreshing. Kinda tired of the I’m-angry-and-I’ve-got-something-to-prove faces of cars these days — especially the little econoboxes that actually have no need to prove anything. That’s why I’m holding on to my happy gen-2 Mazda5 as long as possible. It’s so dang happy — even with its aging, arthritic suspension,…

Both safe injection sites and e-cigarettes are part of harm reduction strategies though. And e-cigs are the thing getting banned in SF while normal cigarettes are perfectly legal.

VTOL is a step in the right direction, but these things are destined to just be glorified quadcopters by the time it’s done. The real money is being spent on automated drones for commercial shipping and delivery. I think it’s more likely that we see that technology transfer over into the transportation realm than…

Is mise le meas.

Some Questions kelly:

Seems cheap for transitioning to democracy without a reign of terror tho.

I dunno, maybe it’s because I live in San Francisco but $3 Million in renovations doesn’t sound like that much.

Show of hands. Who, as they were reading this, was playing the appropriate music for each kaiju in their mind and/or humming it.. Old school Toho, or Bear McCreary - both count.