Is the exhaustion described here like garden-variety-manual-transmission-in-commuter-traffic exhaustion that is such a first world complaint? I get how Dodge Vipers were basically undriveable away from a track. Is it the noise?

60-80kwh is not a small pack in current technology.

Now that I think about it, BMW like a lot of other manufacturers promising pie in the sky EV transition (most notably Toyota) are banking on solid battery technology vastly shrinking the battery. Then it could be more easily shoehorned into existing platforms or…

Taxi autonomy in city, I completely agree.

Highway automation intercity, I disagree. And I want this ASAP. 

The ones that need to reflect reality in order to ensure manufacturers are progressing on fuel efficiency standards at a fleet level.

1st: blood sucking vampire class action lawyers are terrible people, but they are one of the few bulwarks against unrestrained corporate power. In this case, it might be a double-benefit much like what dieselgate provided: that progress in ICE efficiency is part technology gain, but also a heaping spoonful of bullshit.

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It does capture a certain Yooper sentiment. Perhaps it doesn’t reflect the goals and aspirations of a new generation of U.P.

But Yoopers are very solidly Trump.

A Minivan? Used? For more than 2000$?

It’s 25 years old?

No Minivan interior, EVEN if it looks totally fine, well kept, detailed, or hell even replaced, can be trusted. Projective vomit gets everywhere.

Community Engagement Programming? What doublespeak is that?

Publicly financed stadiums remain ground zero for gauging the oligarchical control of modern government.

Real economic conservatives should hate them because of the lack of free market and the governmental interference. Real liberals should hate them because of the appalling destruction it wreaks on social services and…

The UK is basically ground zero for the oligarchical rule with the illusion of democracy, isn’t it? It’s mired them in decades of irrelevance economically and certainly politically.

And they double down with that with a Trump clone?

WHy do you think he’s so pissed at his kid for missing a game? He probably stays because of family.

If the car was a blackbody?

Just running fans would probably be a lot more efficient and get the temperature to an acceptable range.

Drive thrus are evil fatass America inventions. You should avoid using them. Go in and order to go. 

Isn’t the supposedly main point of a sports car to go.... fast... on roads?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cosell#Criticism_of_boxing

Probably because boxing has been called barbaric for a long long time, and I’m not saying Cosell was the first. But Cosell is from a long time ago from modern perspectives, and the debate about the place of boxing in a civilized society predates him by…

I guess boxing and MMA are a bit more upfront about it from a public perception. Muhammed Ali shaking while doing the olympic torch ceremony was in 1996.

Tough white guy leader of union: grizzled, steely, takes no prisoners.

Tough black guy leader of union: combative, pretentious

I’m assuming it comes standard with an accelerator pedal? It’s often so hard to tell with Toyota drivers.

Also, does the brake pedal come with a hook that leaves it in the half-depressed state so that the brakes lights are always on and the effect of the (optional equipement?) accelerator pedal is further diluted?

There’s no WADA in popstardom, why not just sauce on EPO?