We are going to see a lot of recalls over the next few years because of the increasing prevalence of outsourcing. If cars were built from start to finish using domestic labor, the recalls would be fewer due to better communication between the design, fabrication, and assembly teams.

These ATMs are not intended to serve the customers of illicit drug dealers. The big banks are not interested in making it easier to be implicated in crimes, so there is clearly a monetary reason for them doing this.

Maybe I’m just thick, but I don’t understand this article at all.

Exactly. We’ve had buttons for sport and econ modes for a few decades now, and even the Prius now has additional econ and EV buttons to squeeze maximum fuel savings.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again. Replace the cars with trains and buses. Japan, South Korea, and most of Europe have been using trains and buses for decades to rectify traffic problems.

Steve Jobs had type 1 diabetes, and died from pancreatic cancer. Given that he was also a fruitarian, maybe pancreatic failure is caused by pesticide and herbicide consumption from residues on fruit skins. That would certainly explain why Europe is now banning these chemicals.

Exactly. This article completely skips over HOW we outsourced our manufacturing to China in the first place, and what steps are necessary to getting it back.

This isn’t a spiritual successor to the Toyota Matrix. This is a Yaris with a CVT option, which means it’s a Yaris successor.

Self driving cars are not the solution to our nation’s traffic problems. We need TRAINS. This is corporate welfare for Silicon Valley, disguised as an investment in the nation’s safety.

I agree that this car is boring. I’m getting tired of seeing those garish signature Lexus front grills, it looks like cheap chicken wire stretched over the bumper. The rest of the car looks like a bar of soap that’s been dropped too many times.

This is just the beginning of the insane deals on used luxury vehicles. Lots of baby boomers are suddenly finding themselves strapped for cash, and have been selling their spare vehicles to afford their prescriptions and college tuition for their kids.

The reason why our car choices are trending toward crossovers is because the average buyer of new cars (especially luxury cars) is likely to be old and overweight, which makes it harder to get in and out of sedans and coupes. The Wilford Brimleys of the U.S. are the only people left that can afford to buy new cars,…

The “evil” version of GMOs is called horizontal gene transfer, FYI. Selective breeding is a form of the opposite, vertical gene transfer, which of course can occur naturally.

Apple is not the only company to introduce unpopular, uninspired electronics this year. Maybe it has something to do with all of the economic turmoil, pollution, chemical explosions, and mudslides that have been happening in China, which have been forcing them to close large numbers of factories and extend lead times…

“Harbingers of Failure are as informed and deliberate as anyone else.”

Agreed. Many restaurants overcook their food to neutralize pathogens, rather than address the underlying problems in the supply chain. The overcooking also leads to lower quality food, so then the food tastes bad in addition to being unhealthy and overpriced.

It appears to me that the problem isn’t that the ingredients are locally sourced, but rather that Chipotle doesn’t have the infrastructure to ensure quality and consistency across the board. This is an insurmountable problem for a large chain restaurant, because the whole point of locally sourced ingredients is that…

If what you say is true, then how and why did Apple move their factories over to China in the first place? Prior to 2004, Apple products were still primarily manufactured in the U.S.

Musk did offer Hotz a couple million dollars to develop this under Tesla, but Hotz refused because he’s not doing this for the money.

With the recent news about Model S’s requiring a drivetrain replacement after 60,000 miles, and previously the transmission problems with the original Roadster, I have no reason to believe that the price of a Tesla is an accurate reflection of its quality. Now that geohot can hack together an autonomous car in his…