5 years ago there were probably zero chargers. In 20 years there will be 100. In between it will be an issue you need to think about.  Right now <1% of cars are EVs. New sales are only about 5%. As the demand goes up, the chargers will show up. There are several companies whose whole business model is setting up…

If you read the article you will see that she is doing that. W as an alternative to F1 is likely to be a failure. As a stepping stone to get to top junior Kart woman to the pro ranks, it might have some value.

It was a different time when both parties had conservative and liberal wings that often had more in common with each other than the other end of the party. It made making some compromises a lot easier.

For most roads the difference between 5000lb ev and a 3500lb car is like 2x. Something like this 9k truck is about 20x. Things scale up rapidly with weight increases. Can you imagine the out cry if a the normal car paid say 500 bucks and the Hummer was paying 10k? And it should be pointed out that big rigs are like…

I am shocked that a 10-10-benz plan didn’t get pretty much everyone over 55 to think about calling it a career. But yeah this is the normal course. You want to be in the first couple rounds of layoffs/downsizing cause the company still cares at that point. By  the time they get to the 3rd+ they are doing the minimum…

The US is a democracy. It just isn’t a direct democracy like Athens was. Constitutional republics are a subeset of representative democracies...

Pretty much. If the US is invaded and the Proud boys and Antifa both have units fighting, are they fighting for their ideals of facisim and antifacism or are they fighting to protect their house. If you sign up to fight also, How do we judge you for fighting along side Nazi’s?

The question is what are your chances of getting to September without a 3k repair bill.... 

Only at the low end. At the higher end rental places are willing to spend money to make money. Pay 3k for a charger and then charge the renter 200/month is a great way to up your profit margin. See stuff like pools, gym, rock climbing walls, golf simulators, and the like were complexes spend money on things to attract…

There is no need. In a couple of years when market penetration is high enough, these places will start installing chargers to generate revenue (i.e. they get 1k/year from you for electricity instead of that money going to the gas station) and to attract residents. Mandates will bring things in by a few years but long…

Anyone else wish we had videos of Waymo, cruise, and the rest doing roughly the same routes? Whenever I read about the issues Waymo is facing they seem like they are years beyond this (i.e. dealing with traffic accidents not stop signs). Granted they have much different limitations and likely cost a ton more.

They should only use data from german drivers. We don’t need any more left lane camping, tailgating, rolling stopping american drivers on the roads....:)

Undoubtly something like that is how it got in the system. The question is then how did this get through testing? Did they not test enough to see this would happen or did someone on the test team go  “Cool the car does rolling stops” and think it was a non issue. Both are pretty big failures...

No only  a small subset does and they justify it by saying everyone else does. Maybe it is the location I live but basically never see them. Didn’t seem them much in California either. There just aren’t that many intersections where you  had remotely good enough views of traffic to pull it off. 

Well that 50k car is the 35k car. So the 25k car we are talking about would having a selling price of like 40k once you add a few options in....

He is sort of right. How many atrocities have there been in the past 10 year and how many of them have you cared about do anything about? I know I sure didn’t donate much of my money to help any of them.

300k (heck even 500k) on an ICE hasn’t been much of a feat for 30+ years now unless you are driving some low reliability brand. Especially if you are driving 70k+/year. You can google around for the Hyundai that did a million miles on one engine. Or a bunch of other examples.

That is a pretty awesome list. This is basically the same as Tesla’s fully automated driving. They are saying that cars will be able to do it someday but aren’t willing to say when that day is. Put me in that 5-10 year range...

Right now makers think engines are a distinguishing reason in why people buy one car or another. Eventually as sales drop they makers will work together to share development costs (i.e. imagine toyota, suburau,bmw, and say ford all working on one car). They make some subsidy company for joint development. Then after 5…

Well he did sell his 10 million dollar beach homes a few years back...