I work with a lot of DOT people or have friends that went into DOT engineering, and I can’t even get them a $10 lunch because the documentation of it isn’t worth the food, and my company isn’t even a direct government contractor. We work with all of the private utilities that just happen to be part of DOT projects and…

I thought the purpose of American colleges was to fund our amateur football league?

If his money was in an index fund, then his disclosure would say “15,000 - 50,000 in a Vanguard index fund” as opposed to specifying the company within that fund. If some middling government employee accepted a fruit basket from Elon they risk getting fired. This is a conflict of interest that the judge gets to…

That seat belt feature has become pretty common in the segment, but it is useful for people with kids old enough to unbuckle and young enough not to know better. I really liked the Palisade when I got my Ascent, it was like the slightly cheaper sibling to the Telluride and easier to obtain, but it was really hard for…

Very anecdotal, but my company had to change how we handle our summer interns this year because there had been a huge influx of candidates that don’t drive. We used to require car ownership, but it started to actually cut pretty significantly into the pool of available talent these last few years, so we had to modify…

Because I already have a 2021 & 2023 in my driveway, so outside of a major accident, I’m not buying anything for quite a while. Now the reason I didn’t just buy one then is that I have 7 people in my house and the options for a 7 passenger BEV cost about the same as both of our cars combined.

Those biggest players in tech aren’t always that way because they were first, it’s because they bought everyone who ever represented even a hint of competition before they could ever get big enough to become competition. The tech companies learned from the mistakes of big companies trying to merge, starting with…

Based on Rivian’s pricing, it looks like they need to sell something like 300k-400k cars a year to get profitable. Sounds like the most important thing is determining how soon they could hit that volume and confidence that they will get there. 

A group of companies organizing to financially hurt a competitor can become anti-trust. This is probably not one of those instances. Now if some email pops up from Meta telling GARM that they will pay them to convince everyone to pull advertising from twitter, then that could be considered anti-trust. Google finally…

And no duct tape isn’t the solution. I’ve already asked.

I’ve started seeing these in wild a lot more and the entire back is always a complete buzz kill for the rest of the car. Everything else looks really good for its segment, but then I see the entire awful back end. Dog bone tail lights might be the only redeeming quality of it.

I think 1990 is the oldest car I’ve driven any considerable amount, so I’m not sure anything I give will be honestly worse than some of the awful cars of the 70s/80s and makes me feel a bit spoiled relative to previous generations. I’ve been disappointed in cars like the CRZ, most recent Dart, Sentra, and other boring…

This looks neat, but it’s really just a van with fewer seatbelts. I can fit a table, canopy, & chairs into any car that will also function really well as a car the other 99% of my time. There are some remarkably nice camping chairs these days and the seats can be taken out of any van. A fun idea that doubles as an…

Things finally started drying up this week, but we had like 10 or 11 straight days of rain before that. We’re in the middle of hurricane season (which includes other small, regular storms coming off the gulf), a lack of rain is no issue along the gulf coast.

That makes sense. With the Toyota plant in Texas, we have a lot of MAGA Tundra’s, so I can see Tennessee having that with Nissan. Those Toyotas also routinely have a Made in Texas sticker. Are the Made in Tennessee stickers just prevalent on the flag waivers? 

How often are the MAGA flag fliers driving a Nissan? 

I’m 1000% convinced that the person who wrote that post is a Corvette owner. 

That I agree with. The only places it made any sense to me to discontinue ICE are the companies with too many brands, like Stellantis or GM. Otherwise, it is silly to chase the cash fire that investors let Tesla be. 

Are you hoping to use the 3rd row and the trunk at the same time? If so, you’ll have to get the 2025 Acadia. The previous generation is horribly compromised on space relative to almost anything in that class of SUV. 

Reasonable time for cars is where it gets really murky for me. Also, staying current in the car buying public is a hugely important. Are there enough billions that Stellantis could dump into Chrystler to make them relevant again? I’m sure most companies are fearful that not making a BEV now is the equivalent of not…