1000 hours of waterway cleanup for community service.

Based on the porn that ended up on his Twitter, I think he just likes sex stuff. Only normal thing about the guy. 

Per another commenter, $250k between Delta & AA to him. 

For a business, downtime to get a repair could easily be more valuable than the repair itself. Tesla is known for being quite slow with their repairs/parts, so a $200 repair could cost $1000 in down time. Tesla just handily beat almost everyone is lowest cost of ownership by Consumer Reports.

If you’re thinking of buying one, it could be a great experience to rent it for a few days just to use at home.

Something going through my windshield, especially at highway speeds. Always start to get a nervous when I’m behind someone on the highway with a poorly attached load of random junk in the bed/trailer. 

I think Final Destination did a good job imprinting that fear into an entire generation.

The lashings will continue until moral improves.

I fully agree that it is completely doable. I’ve been part of 100s designs for outdoor utility equipment in multiple states. The cost/care a company is willing to put into it makes a big difference and Tesla is the one who put the most into it. Now Elon kicked out everyone in that chain of command and I have little…

That was my first thought. The word “crew” does a lot of lifting when that crew is 1 or 2 people. They probably got docked for a late arrival, too.

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.…