I think the opposite. I don’t think this program is to get people to consider an EV any longer. I think a lot of people will shop an EV for their next vehicle.

Oh for fucks sake. I’m god damn tired of this ‘Darwin award winner bullshit’. He made a stupid, careless, mistake in a moment of excitement and distraction. And he paid for it with his life. This is horrifying - and I’m tired of people acting like he somehow deserved it, or it’s somehow less tragic than any other…

The laws are outdated. If you look at the laws, they state that only the power company can meter electricity. They were primarily intended to prevent landlords from sub-metering electricity to tenants and charging a mark-up for the privilege.

James Riley, Barrett’s father, had asked Tesla to install a speed limiter on the car after the teen received a 112 mph ticket in a 50 mph zone.

I would say the S rather than the Roadster. The S was the first that was truly mass produced and showed that it could be piratical.

The Cruise for failing to yield the right-of-way.

This was no an accident. That was premedited assault. charging him with road rage is a minimum The cops were just lazy or maybe the cops didn’t like bikes either. Im a cyclist and Im tired of cops trying to explain this nonsense away.

“The cyclist deserved it because one time I saw a cyclist roll through a stop sign”

Fuck Texas. Fuck cops. Fuck that Jeep guy. Charges should be more serious than a misdemeanor. He could have killed the cyclist. No, you don’t fucking joke around like that.

Whatever transpired before, the swerving into oncoming traffic to hit/scare the guy in the bike crossed a very big line. Reckless driving should be one of a host of charges. Also, this guy is obviously a great candidate to have his guns taken away.

And they’ll say nothing can be done about cyclist and pedestrian deaths.

In this case I think the side protection for the driver’s head was actually what saved him. It looks like Nissany’s floor actually caught on the vertical bar of the halo which is why Hauger’s car lurched so violently sideways.

I don’t watch any of the lower Formula series so I can’t really comment on those, but I’d argue at least four F1 drivers owe not having been seriously injured or killed to the halo:

My guess is a “Vision Gran Turismo” type concept car done in the retrofuturistic style that we first saw on the Ioniq 5. An N-Line electric supercar concept seems pretty fitting. 

No idea what he’s talking about, so much understated design on sale today... ;)

Many many years ago, I went for a tour of Herrenchiemsee Palace. It’s the last of “Mad King Ludwig”’s castles. It’s a copy of Versailles, but with extra gild. It wasn’t finished, but you can see a lot of what it was supposed to be before Bavaria ran out of money and Ludwig ran out of air.

The true zenith of technology is not artificial intelligence, but artificial stupidity. Any good machine intelligence can make the right call based on available data; it takes a human-equivalent intelligence to take in all the data and then make the exactly wrong decision.

Indeed. By electing Biden, one of the consequences is that we are actively doing something about Putin, rather than French kissing him

Damn. If only your Fascist-In-Chief would have had his insurrection work you could have had Trumps for life like you want. 

YES. That was more-or-less our experience at every dealer, with Volkswagen being the worst offender. Always got through the schmoozy, schmarmy stuff, the hand-shakes, the tedious bullsh*t small talk, and then some shoe would drop. We paid cash, and certainly weren’t expecting a deal or anything, but good godddd they…