Longtime professional mechanic here. Drove/maintained/repaired tons of old cheap beaters for years.

There is always eventually an appropriate set of circumstances to get rid of the old car and get a new/newer one in better shape. There is always a point when it’s a better idea financially to stop throwing money and…

That;s hilarious. Keep going, it’s funny!

And yes, this is the dumbest exchange I’ve had on the internet in many years. Maybe ever, but the Trumper boomers who don’t understand EV basics might be stupider and more stubborn than you.

Maybe.

Congratulations! :P

That’s hilarious. You could have said the same thing about cigarettes for the first 5 years they were on the market, as most cases of lung cancer caused by smoking took decades of use to show up.

Jesus fuck, have you not been paying attention to anything said so far?

The idea is to take these vehicles off the streets permanently.

And everything any government does costs taxpayer money and government employee time, and this involves physical vehicles, many of which are stolen and have defaced, obliterated or…

Nope, not at all, but thanks for playing!

This is a city government and law enforcement, not some private business or individual pursuing their hobby for free with their free time. The amount of taxpayer paid labor and expenses to legally get clear title and assign VINs, store those vehicles for the months to years it…

One more time, since you didn’t listen the first time -

I was the service manager of a Ducati dealership in Los Angeles for some years. Color changes don’t necessarily mean the bike was crashed, plenty of celebrities and other rich people got fancy paint or color changes on brand new bikes - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s gold MV Agustas, for example.

Rob, the ST4 is older than the ST3, which was made from 2003-2007.

And the newer ST3 isn’t meaningfully down on power compared to the ST4 - 103 hp vs 107hp.

Also, to be clear - NYC has automated speed cameras, and those are the $50 tickets the story is referring to. The tickets are mailed to the registered owner of the car, no matter who was driving. And they do not carry points in order to relieve the city of due process requirements of legally figuring out who was…

Your kids aren’t the ones killing people by riding down city sidewalks at 40 mph and blowing 20 stoplights in a row doing 55 mph downtown on tricked out Banshees on slicks. Or the ones getting killed on the regular around here by innocent drivers by riding at high speed at night with no lights.

It sucks that you have…

Except they can, and they do. You really need to look up the stats - just because you don’t know doesn’t mean it’s not getting done. .

2022 Jan. to May, citywide moving violations issued over 5 months:
Over 234,000 total

Including:
16,555 tickets issued to drivers for failing to yield right of way to pedestrians
13,070…

No, we have points for speeding. The higher over the limit, the more points. But that is managed by each individual state, not the federal government, so points, fines and thresholds for license suspensions, reckless driving tickets, and mandatory jail time varies wildly by state. Highway speed limits are also set by…

What are you talking about? The majority of these are dirt bikes and quads, which are FEDERALLY illegal for street use. They do not meet federal safety, emissions or equipment standards for street use and are thus labeled “ for off road use only”.

And don’t pretend that this is just a NYC issue - I have seen plenty of…

It’s almost like the city can address two issues at once that need attention. If you’re going to complain about frequently ticketed drivers still driving, that seems like a state DMV enforcement issue. As it is, just in the first 3 months of last year (Jan-Feb-March, when most people aren’t riding due to winter) these…

Electromagnets pull out the ferrous metals, other methods separate the plastic from the aluminum but I don’t remember exactly how, it’s been years since we learned about this in class.

And stripping complete motorcycles for recycling component by component is very labor intensive - a huge waste of taxpayer money…

Why would you auction them, when they will almost certainly just end up on the streets again, doing the same thing? Selling them out of state just makes the same problem worse for some other city - this is a problem all over the US.

And many of these - if not most of them - are stolen and/or have obliterated or…

Mr. S Leather in San Francisco is the place for you!

I was a dealer service manger in Manhattan some years back. I could not imagine a more ill suited personal vehicle for NYC driving than a Hummer EV, other than maybe an original H1. Awful, nerve wracking.

Oh, trust me, the IRS can and will check that if the people get audited, and California can too if those Texas tax residents rent or own a California house, apartment or car or get stopped by the CHP habitually driving a Texas registered car to or from work anywhere in California. Speaking from experience, when I took…

1st gear: Tesla has badly blown - by several years, usually - every new vehicle launch date that Musk has ever announced AFAIK, so why would he be accurate this time? Investors and potential buyers can take his announcements, add two years, and still not be confident that it’ll be delivered into customer hands by…