There was a lot I disliked about the infotainment system in my 1st-gen Volt, but it did at least get the presets right by presenting them together instead of segregating them by service.

They already are. They’re leaning heavily into home theater these days.

The battery is liquid cooled (and sometimes heated) because it’s extremely important for battery life that it stay within a certain temperature range. Nissan Leafs suffer very short battery lifespans compared to other EVs because they don’t have active battery cooling.

The “lambda sond” badge on early oxygen-sensor-equipped Volvos was one of the geekiest things ever.

Agreed. These days anything that runs and drives for under $3000 is a pretty good deal. And it’s even got new tires.

I’m mostly just hoping the housing market tanks again so I have some chance of buying a house.

27 mph is actually a pretty good target for the US urban market, since people without a motorcycle license can ride scooters in that class in most states.
The problem Honda will have is competing with all the Chinese scooters already on the market here.

Anybody remember Microscribe, and their attempt to meet sales targets by shipping hard drive boxes with bricks in them?

Whenever a boss sends me an email like that I picture them hitting “send” immediately before their flight to the Bahamas takes off.

I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw a truly free charger except at a hotel (where you’re usually already paying like $20/night for parking.) Most of the public Level 2 chargers around here are on the Chargepoint network and charge market rate plus a slight surcharge for electricity.

I once went to a bar that had a PBR tap handle on their water tap.

It’s pretty typical of how our financial regulatory system works. We have a big crash, and then pass laws to fix the bad behavior that caused it...then over the next decade or so financial companies work hard finding loopholes in the laws that they can use to create the next crash.

At this point I would be highly suspicious of any company formed under the auspices of a SPAC. They seem inherently scammy and I suspect they’re going to become illegal some day after a bunch of powerful people manage to lose a ton of cash on one, instead of taking it from other fools.

It could be registered in another state as long as that state doesn’t require a smog test. These old carb-equipped engines can be a real pain to make pass. Transferring the title to another CA resident isn’t going to happen unless it can pass smog.

They also ride pretty rough, in spite if their luxury pretensions, and have really vague steering. They’re cool to look at but kinda awful to actually drive.

I wondered that too, but I think it’s a naval-style flagpole, with yardarms.

I get the desire for an adrenaline rush, but I’d rather they kept it to closed courses. I knew one Michigan State Trooper who got into rally driving; that seems like a good way to get your “driving fast on real roads” jollies without endangering the public. ;)

I guess, in the stolen truck example, I just don’t see how the police being allowed to chase the guy would have helped. Especially since he wrapped it around a pole even without them encouraging him to floor it by chasing him.

Eh. It looks like something you’d put on a motor coach.
I will admit that the lack of gold leaf makes it unusually tasteful for something Trump came up with.

I disagree, but only in the sense that Air Force One is primarily a passenger jet, and turning a passenger jet into a more sophisticated passenger jet is probably still easier than turning a cargo jet into a passenger jet. It’s not like the C-5 has a lot of survivability features as it is.