You cannot compare something that sits out for public use versus an appliance in a personal garage. The wear and tear on that public item will be 100x worse and the variety of vehicles using it with all different software means they have to work for everyone all the time.

Very much this. A more accurate headline would be “a group of assholes circling a car cause the self-driving system to malfunction”

If they would have trained it based on Florida driving, it would have just plowed through all of the riders.

I have coworkers that have done various electric sites from the design side. I’ve also bid multiple Tesla projects, either directly from them or indirectly from their expansions. The Supercharger team is (was?) the only functional team they have, everything else is chaos. The Superchargers are also more reliable and…

The header image should have been that gif of Bender laughing, then saying “oh wait, you’re serious, let me laugh even harder”

It’s unlikely a Tahoe is the actual dream. Owning expensive things and pretending they are a casual purchase is the real dream. 

Most inflation calculators just use general CPI, which doesn’t apply to cars very well, as they have increased slower than CPI for several decades. However, $40k for a cruiser like this was a lot back in 2002, so it’s really hard to gauge where it would be today. This would probably compare to a modern Stinger or 300…

I would rate the 80s model as non-descript. It wasn’t attractive, but it also wasn’t ugly. Just kind of existed in the sea of 80s sedans. This 2000s version is actively unattractive.

Think about every modern crossover coupe — every X6 or Cayenne Coupe - and gaze upon their forefather.

This was an odd investment. The ugliest of all Thunderbirds, so not even something I’d want to go look at for 22 years. For the current ~$17k, I guess it could be okay car to just own and use as a low mile convertible cruiser. Even with that, I’d still be quite nervous about whatever has dried up over the decades.…

The i8 is easily one of my favorite BMWs, and probably cars in general. All of the color patterns look great and it’s one of the few that I think pulls off the black stripe styling they use. At least around me, these things haven’t dropped below $50k for examples with 50k-60k miles on them. The sub 30k mile options…

One of the perks to those non-American countries is that there are way less people driving 5ooo lb SUVs while looking at their phone and going 60 through town. Adults are barely willing to put themselves on motorcycles any more because of our SUV arms race, let alone even think about kids on them (beyond dirt bikes in…

I’ve personally not had good experiences with AA & United, but I know some people who swear by them and are willing to pay the extra for it. I’m actually kind of surprised Spirit/Frontier/Jet Blue didn’t dominate the 1-2-3 for this list. I guess it’s just the rest of the flying experience they try to ruin.

I just mount a fire breathing robot dog to the top of my car. 

I’m sure SCOTUS will find a way to ruin this, but in the meantime, the FTC finally did something about non-competes on the national level!!!

It’s the socially acceptable word for everyone who wants to rant about minorities, women, and/or LGBTQ groups, but fear they’ll get fired for using the known slurs.

No, it’s actually an okay investment tactic when a major corporation has a big go woke, go broke culture pop. There is usually an initial stock slide, which is a good time to buy, because then it generally rebounds once everyone stops caring again.

The repair/rental costs could have been the inspiration for detailing total cost of ownership. /s (kinda)

I’ve found clear to be about 90% worthless. On days that the ID line was busy, so was the clear line, so it marginally saved time. I’ve also had similar issues of the tech taking 2-3 tries before it identifies me and then it’s just into the regular TSA bag check line. So very similar to you in that the free trial is…

The child benefit increases are a joke too. A kid costs way more than just about of those increases, especially if they need just about any form of childcare. Even without childcare, unless the kid is sharing a bedroom with the parents, the added square footage for them adds up fast.