Fair point, it’s not a civil crime. Having said that, I don’t think it requires massive outpouring of police resources. When I was robbed at gun point in Oakland in 2022, and called the police to come take a statement, they told me to file the report online. It seems that this falls a bit shorter of the mark than…

I don’t know, dirt bikes running stop lights, stop signs, nearly hitting pedestrians, seems like that might be more dangerous to society than a group of people destroying company property that’s sitting still. 

Absolutely it’s destruction of property. My experience in running a retail business in Oakland for years, which incurred break-in after break-in, was that even when we knew who the perpetrator was, the costs of dealing with the damage, and continuously enhancing security until the building was essentially Fort Knox,…

My dream scenario: This is the cost of autonomous business. This should be treated as a civil matter, with the waymo on the hook for littering if they don’t recover the carcass within a couple of hours. The state shouldn’t get involved.

In reality: The city will create new laws with harsher penalties for “attacking”…

This is so true! When I was in highschool I worked at a store in the mall that rented a kiosk in the mall as well. You were sent to go work the kiosk if you screwed up, or pissed off the manager. It was horrible. Usually the “assistant manager” was working the kiosk as well. He claimed to have been in the special…

Living in NYC back in the mid ‘10s, and working down in Chinatown, I would often see the unmarked police taxi-cabs. Nothing more disconcerting than watching plain clothes officers flip lights and sirens on in a yellow cab before flipping a u-turn.

I know a lot of the pre-Apollo stuff exploded on launch, but I kind of want to give that a pass seeing as they were just learning about this stuff. It seems rather silly that 60 years later the R&D isn’t good enough to avoid this level of continuous failure. I’m not talking about the crashes occurring when things are…

I love my Dad, and he is awesome - especially in an vehicle sense. He went from an 84 CRX to the Corrado, then the STi, and now has a manual e90 M3. I still have his old STi (which I sold my S2k to fund - short term this was good, long term this was a mistake). 

Hell, give me 350 miles on a single charge at 80mph, reliably in hot or cold weather, with a 24-48 hour parked time mixed in there. 

Not a chance in hell. My father bought one new in what, 93? It was a wonderful car, and in late 2004 I traded him my ‘98 GTI VR6 for it when he was ready to trade in on an STi.

I drove my GTI from LA to MN, and headed back to LA in the red Corrado VR6 I’d been lusting after for years.

Just outside vegas the water pump…

It would be great if someone would properly look into Tony and his activities at Canoo. He’s been scamming investors to fund his lifestyle for years now. Whether its the family owned shell companies leasing his corporate jet back to Canoo for his own use, or the backroom deals to investment groups he owns a part of to…

I thought Tesla had sold too many units to be eligible anymore. Is that something different?

This looks like it was built specifically for AirBnB Diddy style parties. What I don’t understand is why it was built in Grand Junction. Is there a big sporting venue there that hosts annual events where sex traffickers convene?   

Came here for this.

4th Gear: I’m all for congestion pricing, but they shouldn’t be charging motorcycles. Additionally, this is going to fuck the FDR and west side highways. Excluding them from the fee structure will push traffic to them, and they are already a mess. The whole point was that you could cut through town faster, and now…

I’ve followed the Canoo mess since they went public via SPAC. It really feels like the CEO is either hugely incompetent or committing fraud (or somewhere in between). They’ve had two reverse splits to keep this thing on the exchange. Tony has his family business leasing buildings and his plane back to the company as a…

This is the right take. 

Should we have a tiered license system? Probably. Will it happen? Never.

As for the ‘busa, while I love them, it’s frustrating how dealers are turning away bikes more than 10 years old for service, and I can almost guarantee this thing needs a valve adjustment, tires, chain, suspension service, and really it should…

You’re definitely not wrong. Tesla is far and away the most public ‘self driving’ system out there. Having said that, it’s also dangerous as shit, and they’ve sold it as the holy grail to people that can barely drive. The two times I’ve been in a tesla with someone who used it I was clawing at the door in fear. It…

Yeah, I think people are overemphasizing the buyers LTV. He’s probably got a very high salary and can cover the $2,500 a month. A 60 month loan isn’t outlandish, and if the monthly payment is acceptable to him (and the bank approves it), I don’t get the over-reaction. I wouldn’t do it, but hey I’m not this guy.