I just think Waititi got too much control in Love & Thunder. I assume there was a lot more pushback from the producer/corporate side in Ragnarok, but after it went one to be one the most beloved MCU movies they let Waititi go wild. Would be great to return to the balance and get someone else in a key roll, like the…

The various Bumblebee Camaros across the Transformers movies. In large part because that is what got my son a lot more into cars. Now he loves pretty much all yellow cars and has determined that they are the best because they are Bumblebees. 

And that would be a good thing. Many retirees that are on a fixed income do low mileage, so that would save a lot of them money. As far as the opposite goes, it would give those retirees that travel a chance to determine total costs. If a trip will be X-thousand miles, they know exactly what it will cost based on the…

Someone who drives 85% miles out of their state is probably outlier. There is likely someone from another state doing just as much mileage in VA while be registered somewhere else, negating that imbalance. Also, someone doing dominantly out of state mileage is most likely doing most of their driving on the interstate.…

The biggest problem with that is how incredibly easy it is to bypass. There are a lot of hurdles to get a gas tank & pump going, making it easy to funnel every user to a gas station. A charger can go anywhere that electricity is, including a common outlet for a slow charge, making it almost impossible to track &…

either these robo taxis are easily stopped by traffic cones or they are not

Texas just eliminated their annual inspection requirement, but for those there was a big list of local mechanics that could do them, so could keep that and just use various mechanics to report mileage prior to registration renewal. That does open another avenue for fraud by paying off a mechanic (which did exist with…

Texas gas tax is only 20 cents/gallon, or $135 in your example. 

Oregon, Utah, and Virginia already have them live. Looks like Hawaii is getting ready to. When I lived in Washington State, they were seeking people willing to participate in the trials years ago. I’d bet almost half the states in the USA either have trials programs with their DOT or a bill floating around about…

Multiple states have been running trials on how to track driver mileage so it’s a per-mile fee, which has a variety of pros/cons, depending on the method. I’ve also seen talk of taxing electricity that passes through car chargers in a similar manner as gas, but that seems to have too many cons to be feasible wide…

I was initially happy that Sharpe wouldn’t be with Skip anymore, as I do everything I can to avoid Skip. Hopefully Sharpe gets other good opportunities away from Steven A, because he is another person that I actively avoid. 

why do people still live in those backwater states?

study finds that vulnerable people are, in fact, vulnerable

Not that, but sometimes I get hidden adds over the comment section. So if I don’t scroll down far enough I end up clicking an add instead of the show comments. After a few clicks I noticed I have to look in the bottom corner of my browser to be sure there isn’t a different link sitting there.

For me, the weather conditions and other drivers are generally what made the most dangerous roads I’ve been on. All the benefits of a well designed, spacious road are gone when the rain/snow/fog/smoke cuts your visibility to 40 feet, but people around you still think it’s okay to go 75.

The grill is a bit much, but for some reason I don’t hate it. At least from the outside, it looks better than some of the other barges out there. Will have to wait and see if the inside is any better than a mid-level Expedition yet. While Infiniti’s make a pretty nice (free) upgrade on the rental lot, I still end up…

Living in Texas may skew my perception of truck buyers, since almost everyone drives a truck. Throw in BOF SUVs and I bet 75% of my neighborhood has at least one of those 2, so the demographics of truck buyers are quite varied here. For most people here, buying a truck is just what you do, so people end up with…

I live in Texas, so I also have 0% confidence that the rules around digital IDs will be properly written.

My biggest knock is that I don’t want to be forced to hand various people my phone any time they need to see my ID. Most of all, being forced to give a cop an unlocked phone.

but it is better at being a truck, which is what you asked for