Round rock tx. And the jobs were all $40k and up

I think it wouldnt help austin if it was within the city, but if they picked a suburb, there would have to be a huge local boom. Austin is the next dallas ft. Worth metroplex

You ever been to round rock? Roads are great except for the Interstate not having enough lanes , and teachers are among the highest paid from entry level up to tenured

I ordered 9 things on amazon this weekend and i hope my city wins the amazon 2nd HQ. The biggest employer here pays no local property tax and was incentivized to build here. Then it brought 20k professional jobs to the area. This town has gone through a massive boom because of them and its a great city.

I preface this by saying I’m an ACLU member and an advocate for undocumented immigrants.

Queue the anti-trump, blah blah blah. I’m sorry, regarding am I “willing to let our government create an infrastructure that will track all of us” - Yep, I am. If any agency receives a tip off for some kind of potential wrong doing, of any kind (and I am not just talking ICE, I am talking homeland security, CIA…

ABS isn’t really about shortening stopping distances; it usually does but that’s not why it was developed. ABS is about maintaining control when braking, and at that it is very good.

It went down under Obama because Obama created new agencies and started hiring for new government positions a hundred thousand at a time. Having taxes pay for jobs vs jobs pay for taxes is a little backwards for job creation.

I don’t like Trump but dear god can we stop acting like Obama was some saint sent from heaven? Bad things happened in the last 8 years, the mere act of Trump’s election did not in fact plunge us into a nightmare hellscape where racism and sexism reign as though they didn’t exist beforehand.

The biggest reason for production delay? Over-promising from the very top.

Absolutely! Technically, everything is at-hand. Putting it all together, and working through the people problems will take 50 years, though.

My biggest hesitation on buying an EV right now is what happens when I run out “juice” on the 91 fwy on my way home because I have been stuck behind the end of a police pursuit. And before anyone says that it will never happen, it has already happened to me once. In my Jeep, it’s easy, it will idle for a long time…

The whole inclement weather thing is a really good point actually.

Let’s say your self-driving car works great, and you have it drive you around all through summer, spring, and fall.

Then winter comes. All the sensors are frozen over. You decide to just clear the windshield and hop in the drivers seat to take over.…

Hold on now. You’re acting like the power grid isn’t a VERY real concern. Not only are we talking about slowly passing the energy demand of 150 billion gallons of gas per year into the grid (roughly 5 trillion kWh of energy), but the power grid is a very slow moving system. It will take decades to get close and…

There is a difference between a cell phone network and the electrical grid. A single cell phone tower can serve thousands of users. A single EV charger is very limited in how many users it can accommodate which translates into many more chargers all pulling electricity off the same grid. While not easy, its still much…

“[C]hargers are cheap, relatively speaking. Like, really cheap. DC fast chargers are roughly $10,000 per charger, maybe $15,000 installed, more if new electrical service needs to brought to the property, but that’s highly variable.”

You are right on all points, except that it’s super hard to expand the grid. Where I live, it’s been a multi-year project just to expand the capacity of one little branch transmission line.

Jesus Christ, guys, nobody’s painting over the Mona Lisa here. They’re taking him out of a cartoon. We haven’t gone full Orwellian just yet.

A trip to Detroit? Hmm... I’d recommend taking Snake along with you - he did okay getting around in New York -

If you’re an engineer Detroit (and the suburbs) are the place to be.

There is a massive talent shortage, salaries are high in relation to cost of living, housing is inexpensive and you’re close to so many beautiful places.

Car insurance hurts but I’ve lived all over the country and I still came back to Detroit.