Seems like a pretty straight forward negotiation: GM wants money to compensate it for what FCA did. GM should already have a number in mind and what’s the bottom they’d accept. No reason a CEO shouldn’t be able to negotiate that alone.

So is Mary Barra somehow afraid to be on her own in a negotiation without a team of lawyers behind her? 

good point

The real question is why didn’t they just move the gear selector somewhere else, like onto the dash? Seems like a rotary shifter on the dash would’ve been a simpler idea. But I assume that Ford truck buyers don’t like rotary shifters, so that’s why they didn’t do that.

I’m not making a racial comment. I was talking about how everyone these days is so self focused that they HAVE to win every dispute, and keep escalating until they do. But when you play that game against the police, then physical force gets involved.

Seems to be the trajectory of every social media site/app. At a certain point they go corporate, and crack down on anything controversial.

Yet another story of a citizen who wants to get into a pissing contest with a cop. So simple: get out of the car and walk back to the cop’s car and take your trespass notice, then go home. Nope. Gotta force the cop’s hand.

If it had any other name, literally any other name, the reaction would’ve been “Ford EV, meh.” And that would’ve been it. Even Ford gave their original design the “meh” and started over with the concept of a Mustang EV. 

Yes, I used to sell Hyundais. You’d be surprised how many people came in thinking we were the Honda store.

Do we really have to get outraged all over again about stuff from 20-30 years ago just because some kid got woke and discovered Google? Just because YOU didn’t know that lovable family guy Jimmy Kimmel had a much raunchier past as a comedian does mean I have to be mad about it today. 

I end up in notifications all the time when I’m trying to swipe a youtube video to the bottom. Very annoying. I also have a special ability to activate the camera from the lock screen just by picking up the phone from he edges. I had the phone record an entire walk around the neighborhood when all I did was put it in…

How about they fix what has become a bigger problem over time: that you can swipe the screen in 4 directions. This has made it much tougher for the software to determine what you are trying to do in any given situation, forcing the user to be more precise with their inputs. They can get rid of the app switching option…

I think most white people flying the confederate flag aren’t really racist, they just kind of see the flag in kind of a generic “southern pride” way, like family, apple pie, baseball, and pickup trucks. Just like most people who celebrate Halloween don’t really believe in demons or worship Satan, it’s just a sanitized…

Even at this point, 70 years later, are there many original parts left on these planes?

My dad inherited a 1978 Ford Thunderbird from my grandfather - dark blue with a white top and white leather interior. It was in mint condition. All I remember is is that I wasn’t allowed to drive it to the prom and I was pissed.

Yes, the Bronco Sport also in the pic has been totally ignored, lol

I think if you live in a typical suburban neighborhood then you kind of agree to live a certain type of life, even with no HOA involved. So yeah, 12 marginally functional vehicles crammed onto one property is a bit much, lol. Time to move

Why is it that the only black lives that matter are the low rent street thugs with long rap sheets that violently refuse to get arrested yet again?

Ford is desperate to get that same sort of cool Tesla has. They are wildly misspending money to do that.

Maybe Ford has figured out the ket part of autonomous driving: the stopping. I had thought that with adaptive cruise and automated emergency braking that we had figured out how to make cars see obstructions in front of them, but Tesla obviously hasn’t.