Maybe I’m in a bad mood today most days

Electronic door handles are a HUGE issue. What happens if you drive into a body of water, and your battery shorts out? Well, in a Model X:

The Elio had cupholders, normal mirrors and license plates. A single functioning model =/= ‘production ready’. 

My work carpool is seven people and three dogs and I live in an apartment. So this won’t work for me.

The author clearly didn’t even read the story they linked. From the jump:

Kudos to you for both keeping an old piece of mechanical history alive and supporting a local business!

I think you meant to say contractors cost less than employees, which is why large companies (it’s not just tech - Nike does this too) use them. They don’t have to pay benefits and it’s easier to let them go at the end of a job. 

Raph can you tell us how much Coast normally charges for this repair? I’m not trying to figure out how much in the hole you are (we already know it’s vastly too much money), this just seems like a very niche market.

This. My software engineer brother-in-law is leaving Palo Alto to work remote from Oregon (where we live). His move was precipitated by his roommate doing the exact same thing to work remote from Seattle (where he was born). It’s not the fires, it’s the pandemic - the Tubbs fire in 2017 was just as bad, from an AQI…

OK hold on - your BART example is correct, the Board of Directors passed an initiative intended for 2019 to raise the salary of BART police officers to meet the average salary of a bay area resident (the starting salary for a recruit after FTO is $92k, not $106k; and it’s still $10k below the average income of an SF…

It was a joke

I agree the detectives had probable cause. But was that probable cause enough to issue a no-knock warrant, served in the middle of the night by a cadre of plainclothes, gun-pointing officers? Hell no. Maybe if they had confirmed surveillance that the suspects were inside the residence. Serving such an aggressive…

Hah, I have no problem with that! Think of it this way - a $250 fine on a person making $25M/year is 0.001% of their income. That same percentage, on someone who makes $50k/year, is $0.50. Fifty cents!

1) Yes, the warrant on the address was correct, but the people the cops were looking for weren’t there (they were looking for someone who dated Taylor two years ago). So the judge issued a very strict, no-knock warrant on an address where the perpetrator isn’t likely to be.

Would be super helpful parking. Technically you could slide “sideways” into a parallel spot, if you figured out exactly how far away and behind the adjacent cars you needed to be (i.e. what the angle of the wheels is). Also there are those times when you parallel almost perfectly, then realize you’re still a foot from…

There is no trail application because 99.9% of these Hummers will never see further than the grass parking strip at your local Chick-Fil-A.

I don’t get it - there’s nothing political in this post. There are political comments, yeah, but those aren’t controlled by the author. Third gear is just an observation that the Minneapolis PD is making fewer stops. Justin doesn’t ever say ‘Cops are bad.’ Calm down, and stop reading the comments if it makes you so…

I don’t know about politicians working minimum wage, but I’m wholly on board with Police making way more money. They should be paid minimum six figures, absolutely be required to have a bachelor’s degree and in addition to pre-force training they should be required to continue their education and be tested, much like…

Kind of unrelated to cops, but traffic fines should also be a percentage of your taxable income. It’s wholly unfair that a single mother working minimum wage has to pay a week’s worth of wages for a speeding ticket, when a wealthy suburbanite lawyer earns that much in 15 minutes.

Oh yeah that would change things. Good point