wouldn’t it be easier to eliminate existing loopholes instead of creating a new tax regime that will spawn a bazillion new loopholes.

Instead of this, they just need to tax high frequency trading, and they’ll get everything they need. This is a tax designed to make the middle class feel like the Feds are ‘going after those rich tax dodgers’, but it doesn’t use the right tool to do that job. Capital gains taxes should be higher, and match income tax…

I don’t think Musk cares one bit about the money. The issue is that the proposal would require him to either borrow against his shares or liquidate his shares. His increase in wealth comes from the increase in share price of his companies, which is fairly ephemeral when he has no intention of actually selling the…

“The question is, though, is this actually lead to some real safety regulations for advanced driver-assistance systems?”

I hope this is a joke. You can’t be bothered to look up actual test results?

The package is an extra charge on Teslas, so Hertz would just have to not buy it. 

Here’s the article, which definitely does not conclude it would cost the equivalent of $9/gallon:

Remember the infamous study giving a Prius a higher lifecycle carbon figure than a Hummer? Among other things they severely underestimated the number of miles a Prius could rack up (which in taxi service can be interstellar) while overestimating the lifecycle mileage of the Hummer, basing it on a “hot-seated” fleet…

When you use a Tesla’s onboard navigation system (like you would be doing if you don’t know the roads), it automatically routes you via the Supercharger network. It’d only be an issue if someone was using a paper atlas or their phone, rather than the very good Tesla navigation system.

this is my big complaint with people decrying the “public Beta” while completely ignoring that learner’s permits are the same damn thing only the responsible adult is in the passenger seat where they have more difficulty taking control if the learner messes up.

Having access to some post-sale stats, average mileage per month is a bit over 2000, so even at ~67% UT, that’s still only 100 miles per day.

This also isn’t the first time this kind of data has been totally misleading or even downright false. A Tesla Model 3 gets about 4 miles per kWh on the highway. Superchargers, the most expensive way to recharge a Tesla, cost about $0.26 per kWh. So driving 100 miles would cost $6.50. At current gas prices of $3.40 per…

5th Gear (Electric cars are expensive):

Admittedly unions in other sectors probably don’t have the same sorts of liability, but if you make it so that unions that defend people who steal money or embezzle are liable to repay that money, it would have a chilling effect on the power of unions to protect people from wrongful terminations.

Again, until the cost of defending these ‘officers’ comes out of *UNION* coffers, the incentive structure is completely misaligned with good public service. Fired officers don’t pay union dues anymore. Hired ones do. The incentive is to keep every officer working, no matter how awful they are, because the awful ones…

It would have been nice if Jalop walked back their previous claims and admitted their error rather than doubling down on a different narrative.

As is not wearing your seatbelt and going 100mph in a 30.

They were drunk and went for a joyride and fucked up.

“It’s a reasonable thing to suspect, given that the vehicle had apparently been found without a driver behind the wheel”

Certainly there’s no reputation of these sorts of single car accidents in non-EV performance vehicles like Mustangs.