I’m sitting in my house right now in a suburb of Phoenix AZ, with a population of like 4 million people and if I walk out my door I have zero bars.

In my 40s and when something is going on and I’m in the middle of nowhere the first place I go is AM radio. My phone seems like it gets _less_ service now than it did 10 years ago. 

You can probably make a transistor radio with shit lying around your house. Does that mean stores should stop selling transistor radios? What’s your point?

I can get behind this. 

Exactly this. Not supporting AM would be removing critical infrastructure from our society. We need AM as much as we need emergency broadcasts and land line telephones. They’re not important day to day but they’re critically important when everything else fails. 

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Big McLargeHuge?

It’s not like machinery doesn’t fail either, but at least when it does, it doesn’t _tend_ to send you into a wall.

So a bit more to this -- I think his reply ended up in Bimmerpost or something, and people pounced on it. To be fair, I think his response was something like “This one was totally on me, but the tires were 1.5-2psi low”, so it wasn’t like he was _only_ blaming the tire pressure, but, honestly, he memed himself pretty…

Right. It’s like someone saying “Gee, I didn’t know this Lamborghini would get me so much attention.” Like -- why do you think they make it that way dude.

I legitmately cannot remember the last time I thought about that about a car, but yes, it’s absolutely true about this vehicle.

And yet, not everyone can live in a city in a town (nor, rightfully should they “need” to). The world requires all kinds, and many rural folks, while requiring more resources in just about every respect, also produce a lot more (and a lot more useful things) than most folks who live in cities.

So ridiculously and succinctly well-put.

I think this argument will work better when electric vehicles can be fully charged in under 5 minutes. 

Sucks because by all accounts they’re very simple vehicles and could last a very long time with little to no maintenance. The battery array _will_ continue to decline. It doesn’t flatten out. It just degrades more linearly. 

In most of the world, yes. In the US, nope. 

So long as it doesn’t undermine their marketing message or brand alignment. Not sure how “green” they can convince the public dumping hazardous chemicals is though. 

Why do you have to live near a big city to do it? Couldn’t you commute into the city and work, then drive home?

I had the same reaction. I’m about the furthest thing you can imagine from being a Tesla fan, and I’d say the implication of the headline is unfair at best. 

Wait really? I found it to be tragically dated as Motortrend with a bent toward Boomer interests.