We’ll be ... ... increasingly left behind the rest of the world until we are forced to adopt the international standard.

Niagara On The Lake has a population of 19,000 and its residents have a median after-tax income of $86,000. Pictures show it to be quite a bustling town. Cute, but not really rural.

“We won’t have a choice.”

I generally agree with your sentiment but also think the government needs to do more to increase EV adoption. Basically halving the price of a new EV is a start and we can do so by taxing the ever-loving sh1t out of the more egregious gas-guzzling ICE powered vehicles. Please, let that muscle-car buyer subsidize my EV…

Arrivederci Anthony.  You left your heart with all of us.  

I agree with all but the last paragraph.

The US has a largely unique market NOW - not many giant pickups selling elsewhere, not many tiny hatchbacks selling here. No particular reason for that to change. And any company that tries to build what their customers don’t want is not going to last very long here. The rest of the world is much better at MAKING…

I’ve posted this on another Jalopnik article, but the short version for my household is that my wife and I both work from home, so our 8 mile but 45 minute commute is gone. We do run errands, but we are really only putting ~5,000 miles a year on our cars, if not less. My wife’s car is a 1999 Durango she bought new…

I remember seeing an interview with him (I think on CBS News Sunday Morning?) after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.  Despite his fading memory, he could still remember lots of songs.  I guess that shows the power of music.

No doubt, he seems like he was a real one

We should all have such a great run. He lived for so long he was hip and relevant multiple times over and never had to endure the indignity of being a nostalgia act. He was also a gentleman and a class act to the end. Most importantly, he defied the worst stereotypes of aging and remained a committed and very vocal…

Great singer, good dude. For a famous crooner he had a seriously gentle vibe. Very little swagger, just a kind, low-key personality.

This is sad.

Yeah he’s one of the few performers who was able to fully transcend genre and generations. His MTV, Winehouse and Gaga experiences never felt like desperate grabs at relevance by an aging artist. If anything, the people who he performed with later in life seemed like they were hoping Bennet’s universal appeal would…

I saw him perform in Philly in 2011. It was wonderful. He goes around and introduces his band, and each bandmember gets a solo. They turned the lights off of Tony and focused a spotlight on the player performing the solo. And it hit me: This 80something year old man is so magnetic, so amazing on stage, even though…

He worked with all the greats. Sarah Vaughan. k. d. lang. Bob and Doug McKenzie.

The story of his caregiving was genuinely amazing. His much younger wife was absolutely devoted to personally maintaining his dignity and whatever semblance of a normal life he could manage, and while I’m sad about Bennett, I’m glad her burden is done.

I’m not fucking around with goddamn fascists. Tony didn’t.

Man, this really feels like the actual end of an era. In my book, Tony Bennett was up there with names like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

It really hurts to see people of his generation disappearing. Tony saw the horrors of war and fascism and told about his experiences. If people like him were still in charge, we wouldn’t be facing the disaster of Republican Party Trumpism.