Yes! So many commercials are directly advertising to those people who play with their phones while driving. Then they all smile after the emergency braking stops them from mowing down the baby stroller.

Any appliance can be abused. Look at all the dummies on Tik Tok cooking steaks in the toaster.

50% of new car sales by 2030 seems very aggressive considering consumer acceptance so far.

The Bolt was clearly designed with the Leaf in mind, not a cheaper Tesla (which didn’t exist when the Bolt was developed).

EVs and hybrids got a bad rep right front he start with models like the Nissan Leaf and Prius. Those cars were basically wimpy eco-nerd specials, and turned off way more buyers than they attracted. With EVs in general, the ability to rapidly recharge is the main drawback. Like you said, there are things EVs can do…

I had an Acura Integra and an RSX that both had the sunroof switch on the dash on the left side of the steering wheel, instead of on the ceiling by the sunroof.

Used EVs: my friend bought a 2017 Chevy Bolt in March for $13,900. 2017 Bolts at the same dealership are now $20k.

The problem with selling EVs is that the salesmen at the dealerships have zero incentive to overcome the hurdles of convincing buyers to buy an EV. It’s much quicker and easier to just sell people the gas models and move on. VW and everyone else need to have substantial sales spiffs on these EVs to make the salesmen…

I hate the word adulting. To me it seems like a perpetual child pretending to be a grown up, and hating every minute of it.

Guardians is a fine name. It rolls off the tongue just like Indians did, and it has a relation city history. It could’ve been way worse, considering all the crazy minor league team names (my local team is the Yard Goats), and that we still have the Washington Football Team.

It’s not a normal thing to end up with extra equity at the end of the lease. Usually the automakers are leasing at favorable terms to the buyers, which means the car ends up being worth less than the predicted residual value at the end of the lease. These are unusual circumstances.

The point is is that the automakers didn’t care if buyers flipped their leases and made a bit of money off the equity - until right now. Now they are essentially changing the terms of the leases to prohibit 3rd party buyers. They are within their rights to have those terms in their leases, but the leases coming due…

The cabin air filter on my 2017 Cruze require me to remove 4 different interior panels, then unscrew the glove box.

I had a 2012 Hyundai Sonata. The cabin air filter was very easy to access: pinch the 2 stops on the glove box to drop it, then twist the knob on the filter housing door to open it. That’s it.

It took 13 years, but the ‘99 concept car was pretty faithfully converted to production trim inside and out on the 2012 Charger

Things like this really show how young a company Tesla is. They don’t have the decades of institutional knowledge the legacy automakers do. No one at Tesla even thought about how different the Model 3 is without the front motor. From the sounds of it Tesla puts no thought into repairability. 

In my area, the new favorite thing is to not wait at the light to make a right turn. No what you do is drive down the opposite lane past all the other cars waiting at the light, then loop around the first car to make your right turn.

And this is why poor people are poor: trying to keep up with the fashion of a billionaire.

I’ll add one to the list: the GM 1.4T in the Chevy Cruze. When it works it has enough power, but it is made out of such cheap parts that it rarely stays going for long.

Many of these slides seem to be more of a transmission issue rather than an engine issue. A poorly geared transmission can totally hobble an engine.