Technically this van is just a rebadge of a Peugeot Partner/Citroën Berlingo/Opel Combo that is 100% PSA so you won’t find it on other Toyota models (except the Proace which is also a PSA product).

So, they pride themselves in being a company that’s ‘good for the environment,’ but then invest in a completely separate  industry that’s slowly ruining the environment

The competition is already here. They are no longer the only game in town for luxury EV’s. Every major manufacturer has a competitive equivalent EV announced for this year (or already out there). Tricks like Bitcoin and carbon offsets are going to satiate shareholders now. But it is not a long term game plan for…

I didn’t accuse you of being a racist. But since you brought it up....

Um, you forgot to use the term “welfare queen.”

The semiconductor shortage is so poorly reported here.

Most news outlets are corporate-owned and the journalists are stenographers for cops, business owners, and politicians.

So much this. I watched an interview on NBC over the weekend where a reporter was talking to a restaurant owner who complained that unemployment benefits were the reasons he couldn’t get enough employees.

3rd Gear:

So we should keep pointless jobs around that make stuff more expensive for everyone else around, just to keep people employed? I mean, the service jobs that dealerships provide will still be there, along with other value add jobs; but why should we keep a full staff of people who only add cost and friction to the…

This, plus anything like Turo. I don't want strangers driving my car either.

3rd Gear: You could never pay me enough money to do Uber or Lyft.

Those are definitely not one-way streets. That is a bunch of people getting so confused by a roundabout that they pulled into oncoming traffic lanes. Which is confusing.

Of course, the typical and reasonable way to deal with a roundabout when you’ve never seen one or been taught how to navigate it is to stop instead…

Actually, he stated it was impossible to do what he was doing with any of the competitors system and named Supercruise as an example. 

Your Hyunai’s cruise control lacks the ability to steer the car by itself in a way that would convince you it is okay to do all of those things. Tesla “self driving” is good enough at the task it was designed for that it does convince its operators of abilities greater than what it is capable of, so operators engage…

Of course you can’t make a perfect system. And accounting for every conceivable way a human may exploit something is impossible (and one of the reasons true autonomous driving is probably a fantasy). But there’s an extremely easy solution here that for whatever reason Tesla seems completely loathe to do: have a camera…

Its not just the stupid people “driving” that are in danger, its everybody else on the road as well. Unfortunately, all of us that share the road are unwitting beta testers.

I guess I’m alone here in thinking that $35k is actually a good price for a nice looking 300hp, 6 speed manual, widebody, hatchback, homologation, rwd biased-capable AWD, brand new car.... with a warranty. 

Back in the day I read an article in Mother Earth News describing a homemade hybrid car, a series hybrid built out of an Opel GT whose ICE was now a repurposed lawn mower engine. The car itself was driven by an aircraft starter/generator, and there was a battery bank to make up the amps needed to move the car when…

I don’t have much interest in taking the cruiser off of adventure duty but I would like a 3rd car for everyday. But yeah, not prime money. More like beater money