Correct, there is no way to remove 100% of accidents. Even if it’s 99.9999% of accidents, those last few percent points fall on the shoulders of the squishy organic beings that get ground into a sticky wet past.

Just had an accident at work. Thankfully it’s no more than a broken hand. But I swear to all that is holy that the dumbass that hurt himself, hurt himself because he is just flat stupid.

Yeah but this is like saying I coughed up a blood clot, but it had an appealing shape.

I don't know. I think there's people out that make outrageously bad financial decisions to trade in their just bought car, at a loss. To buy something shiny and new. 

Couldn't you just, you know. Unhook the speedo cable from the transmission and just drive it. Years ago everyone I knew did this to their VW leases. 

I’ve never used one of these things, but how do they work. I assume it’s basically a pawn shop for a car.

My friend what you need are two cars. The cheapest wrangler you can find and the cheapest manual Accord you can find should fit in your budget.

Yeah I haven't kept up with it. But plants I built in China and Japan and Malaysia and Costa Rica all had rules to this effect. There was a way to skirt the law by basically buying 100% of a plants manufacturing capabilities. But that would run into problems with the home county. We made a product out of a fiberglass…

Yeah and that may have helped with this. They will just have to choose another state that's famous for state government level union busting. Maybe Utah.

But wouldn’t that be a win win for California right now. Clear out the ones that have been there for a while and bring in a new crop that hasn’t lived in the shit show.

Hey California, tell us you hate poor truck drivers without telling us you hate truck drivers.

If Mazda really wants to sell rotary engines, they should just sell them as crate engines. Make the bell housings bolt spacing fit the older transmissions and the accessory drives as well. Don’t worry about making them carb legal (California can eat a dick) just make them available.

Oh they must have changed a law or two since I’ve been involved in building an American plant in China. But the last time I did it we needed to be a China based company as in we were subjected to their laws and regulations. Basically the company is not the property of it’s US based subsidiaries. It’s owned by the…

If Ford opened a plant in China. It wouldn’t be considered an American company operating in China, it would be considered a Chinese plant named Ford. Many other countries have these same laws about foreign companies and countries buying property. I have a feeling if they did this for Chinese plants , people (and…

A friend of mine is an over the road trucker. He’s an (I guess they are called) independent. For him most of these problems don’t exist really. The industry is still loose enough that it isn’t followed strictly.

I know but I learned how to figure out interest and payments in maybe 7-8th grade. That was maybe in 86-87 (back to the future was still in theaters, for you younger types) and I still remember. And now with today's technology there's really no excuse for ignorance. 

No sorry. I get what you are getting at here but no one (or at the very least very, very few people) has to take an almost decade long loan out on a new car.

It may be the conspiracy nut in me. But I’m thinking part of this is intentional. Clarkson gets out of a contract early and now gets to spend the next couple of decades sipping cold drinks on beaches around the world.

I’ve been searching for a cheap-ish 4X4 since before COVID brought that to an abrupt end (sorry. I’m not spending $10k for a first gen Ford explorer with an odometer that starts in the 300Ks) but since prices are starting to stabilize a little I’ve been searching again.

Ehhh. I honestly don’t see this as much difference than any other state mandating anything. Now I could get behind an electric ban until charging infrastructure is built in the state to support new electric sales.