Exactly. I Don worry about depreciation, because I keep my cars until they start costing more in repairs than replacements. I get the full use out of them.

To be fair people who blame the president, regardless of party, for directly affecting things like the economy or gas prices are pretty dim.

Blu Ray already supports single layer (25 GB) and dual layer (50 GB)

Article title says petabit, which is 1/8 of a petabyte or 0.125

Extended warranty, but they declined on-site service, so... ?

I’m still hoping for a miracle but in all likeness it’s a goner. Pity they can’t find the fault but it’s like trying to fix an Apple II over a modem, without Wozniak around and no way of connecting a probe to try and find the problem.

It may have found it’s new purpose. To become.....sentient.

I’m sure someone at Geek Squad could fix that. But did NASA get the extended warranty?

Jokes aside. It still amazes me that this little guy we sent in space 50 years ago is still sending us back data. And that the equipment lasted so long in the vast emptiness of space.

Thanks, learned something new today. Was not aware of these centaurs, or that one had rings.

I think even PHEVs are a little ahead of the curve when talking about the US generally. LOTS of people live in places where charging a car every night is just not convenient or even possible. Hybrids are going to grow in market share and stick around for a long time.

I was saying the same a year ago, when everyone was ragging on them, calling them reactionaries and fools. I mean, I still mock Toyota for the hydrogen vehicles, but EVs are merely part of an answer.

PHEVs are the right choice for most people with just one car in their household while 2 car households would most benefit from a PHEV/BEV combo. For anyone that doesn’t have any convenient place to charge an HEV is still better than no battery option. 

Feel like Toyota got a lot of hate for their failure to jump straight into EVs. But it always struck me as really the only sensible approach. Maximize hybrid efficiency while investing in PHEV; maximize PHEV while investing in EV (and watch what everyone else is doing); have a reliable, fast-charging, long-lasting EV…

Toyota-branded sepukku daggers: worst conference swag ever

It’s all in how you drive. Many EV owners report 40k+ miles from OEM tires as long as they don’t accelerate hard.

Probably the same thing sticky jellied children’s fingers do to stainless appliances: leaves a rust spot

I wonder what acidic bird poop does to bare sheet metal.

Aren’t people already paying for it with the data Amazon is collecting? Eat shit, Bezos.

Good story, Jose, thx.

Wordplay aside, I believe the “700-ton” actually refers to how much pressure it can exert, not how much it weighs.