I’ve filed these damage claims in California and Maryland for pothole damage in years past and they have never paid out because the state says the potholes were never reported.

A few examples of radically underposted roads come to mind:

If you do the posted 55mph speed limit in Philly on I-95 you are going to be a massive traffic hazard to everyone else doing 70-75 mph or more. Even in the far right slow lane, as I have found out personally many times when driving a stock 1964 VW bus on that…

Can’t fix stupid.

My dude, did you already forget you said this?

No, where did you get that idea?

Not “every one”. The top selling EV in the US not named Tesla was the Bolt, 0-60 in 6.5 sec and 252 miles of range in a practical small hatchback starting at under $20k with federal incentives. GM sold about 202,000 of them and last year’s sales were a massive and growing success with 62,044 sold. So there’s…

Politics are integral to cars, whether you like it or not.

The cars we buy or don’t buy, how you buy or lease or rent them, the fuel you put in them, the places you drive them, how you drive them, park them, insure and repair them... politics is integral to all of that, and has been for your entire driving lifetime…

Sometimes! Depends on the car, how often you rip through brakes in stop and go traffic, whether the rotors get replaced with every pad replacement, if you’re paying shop labor and the usual parts markup, etc etc.

It also depends on the tire, because short lived OEM compromise tires can be replaced with longer lasting…

More tire wear but a lot less brake pad wear. After 30,000 miles our Bolt brake pads look almost like new and the OEM tires are coming up for replacement soonish. We will look for something that lasts longer, it’s not a race car and we don’t drive it like one. But the brake pads and rotors look like they will last to…

“One speeding vehicle had its case tossed because it was straddling lanes. It’s such a small irrelevant technicality to escape a speeding ticket.”

Is it, though? Or is the system engineered so that it needs the car to stay in lane to get an accurate reading? You can’t make statements like that without knowing how…

Building a truck that lives up to the promises costs real money, lying is free.

Tesla’s market cap is $580 billion. Subaru’s is under $15 billion.
Tesla sold 1,810,000 cars worldwide in FY 2023, Subaru sold 852,000 cars in that time period.

If Tesla wanted to do it right, they could have. But Elmo didn’t make getting it right a priority, because why spend money and time getting it right when you…

The software company that doesn’t know how to build a car also doesn’t know how to build an offroad truck that actually works offroad?

SHOCKING!
:P

These are not world figures, only ships that are required by law to report to the US CDC, and only when they meet the requirements to do so. And note that I was responding to the guy saying he’d rather be blown out the door of an airliner, which is orders of magnitude less likely than getting sick on a cruise ship.

How many people has that happened to, vs the number of people who have gotten norovirus or covid on cruise ships?

Because, according to Forbes, 1,939 people got norovirus aboard cruise ships from six different US jurisdiction cruise lines in just the first 7 months of 2023. Cases onboard cruise ships “skyrocketed” in…

Ex Chevy dealer tech from back then. I PDI’d some of these when new, and they were shitty cars even back then. And they haven’t improved any 28 years later. Terrible, cheap, hard, poorly fitted plastic interiors, mushy seats, wheezy engines, sloppy handling and vague brakes. And as noted, not a lot of standard content…

The big, heavy wheels and tires aren’t helping. Nor is the weight, and the aero isn’t exactly leading the competition. Not to mention Tesla’s established track record of... uh... very “optimistic” advertised range figures. Yeah, let’s call it “optimistic”.

Nor cal and past so cal resident here. EV owner. Much of california doesn’t get winter, that’s why EVs work so well here. No snow or freezing temps in much of the state, all year round. And where you do get snow and freezing temps is not where the bulk of the state population lives. You may drive through it…

Come for the onboard rollercoaster, methane emissions, ten thousand people on a ship and the overpriced open bar, stay for the norovirus and covid outbreaks!

How are you spending your vacation week? One way or the other, or another way?
It’s a valid comparison between options, because passenger mile emissions of flying to and from a destination (like, say, Mexico City, including transport to and from the airport) and then walking or riding the bus while you’re there can…