“but the Bel Air was rusting from the inside out”
“but it didn’t have a V-8, a straight six doesn’t offer enough protection”
but, but, etc.

Everytime I hear this I pull up the 59 Bel Air vs the 09 Malibu front quarter crash test on Youtube.  Shuts them up with the quickness.

Saturn had a “no dicker sticker”. You paid the price on the car, end of story. No negotiation.

I like this take a lot. Learning to enjoy cars for what they were intended for is still being a car enthusiast. We like machines with oily whirly bits. A truck or a van can be just as interesting as a sports car if you approach it like the machine it is. 

“Priuses suck.”

I’m not sure I’m following the “dumbest thing that you heard someone say” about Saturn.

i’m from a trumpy low-education area and grew up hearing this

I still hear people complain about how cars used to be safer because they used more steel. A lot less often than I heard that in 90s, but it still leaves me dumbfounded every so often. They’re not even all boomers, either. 

It won’t cost big bucks. All the drivers will be in a place like Mumbai.  We will just have to get used to these sort of traffic patterns.

Oh bless your heart (jokes!)

It would kind of have to be 1:1. Only other option is to have less than that and there will be times when you hop into one of these “self-driving” cabs and you are made to sit and wait until a remote safety driver is available. 

When something very bad inevitably happens, how will Tesla squirm its way out of massive liability lawsuits? They can no longer blame the occupants of the car who cannot do anything. They can’t blame their own employees or hold them accountable beyond firing them.

Unless the ratio of remote drivers to remotely-driven vehicles is 1:1, there’s gonna be problems. And the cost of paying a remote driver for every remotely-driven cab is going to be too high.

So the ONLY way this works is if you have a human sitting there watching the entire drive from start to finish, apparently with their hands on a game controller style steering wheel and feet on game controller pedals, basically doing nothing but looking at a screen for, what musk hopes, is the vast majority of the…

Yeah this has bad news written all over it. I’m sure they will operate at a loss to make it seem like an affordable option at first. But what happens when they actually want to sell them to consumers and are inevitably still highly reliant on these remote drivers?

First gear: so, do I have this right? A presumably huge room full of low-paid staffers/remote drivers that are expected to pay super-close attention to everything going on around a car by watching screens and listening for warming beeps? Notwithstanding the possibility that they’re going to be chatting with the…

I’m looking forward to Rivian’s smaller models, particularly the R3. If this thing nails it on range and cost I’m going to be mighty intrigued.

That only works for people that have a desire to learn.  You can lead a horse to water...

We really ought to have some sort of required financial literacy education in this country...

That center console is gorgeous.