If you really want to steal a fast, or luxury car, you do it like they’ve done it in England for the last 25-plus years. You rock up with a mildly modified shipping container, and drive, drag or push the car into that. The container cuts off tracking, lo-jack, GPS and any other form of radio signal, and muffles or…

Use google maps, apple maps or waze, where that info is constantly updated for nothing. There is no reason for any car manufacturer to be charging a subscription for anything.

“To begin with, younger buyers are more likely to be unbothered by subscription services. Gen Z shoppers are more tolerant of subscriptions compared to older buyers,”

Benefits of high speed rail:
- no TSA
- you don’t have to be at the station two hours before leaving
- you can get up and walk around
- bigger seats, more legroom, more space
- no compressed air drying you out
- decent food and drink, whenever you want it
- quiet
- you don’t have to deal with airports
- you don’t have to deal…

It’s called “The Danger of What If”. People make buying decisions based on extreme corner cases.
Case in point, a year or two ago I had a conversation / argument with a colleague about my I-Pace. In the configuration I have, it’ll do 240 miles on a good day. My colleague said he’d never consider anything less than 500…

To be fair, Apex Legends is so riddled with bugs I’m honestly surprised to hear there was a testing team at all.

Elon does. So the Tesla-stans do. The rest of us, who live in a more ground reality, not so much.

Die-hard F1 fans don’t care about DTS. It’s just light entertainment noise. Fun to watch. Quite far removed from reality.

Full size trucks and SUVs make perfect sense in much of the country.

I’m guessing Jonathan Martin is bought and paid for by oil and gas companies.

DeSantis hasn’t quite got to the part where they burn books, but this is sadly 100% Relevant : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings

The point here is that Tesla are being forced to do something by a regulatory body. As regular people, we can all tell them FSD is a total pile until we’re blue in the face, but they won’t do anything about it. Now the NHTSA is involved, they have no choice.

Honestly it’s stupid how Tesla continue to use their proprietary connector. The US is the only market where they do. In every other market, they sell vehicles with CCS so in Europe (for example) it’s been trivial to open up their network to other EV owners. No adapters needed. Just a back-end tweak on the servers and…

• Chargers are working when drivers need them to, by requiring a 97 percent uptime reliability requirement;

These are bound to be asshole “influencers” who are doing some sort of retard TikTok challenge.

“But since the NHTSA’s regulations are significantly different than they are in Europe, where the technology has been legal for a while, it will likely be several years before they show up in the U.S.”

“You can go now” : this is common in most places but it seems less so in America. I grew up with this notion - used it in England, Holland, Germany - everyone understands it. Since I moving to America, I’ll see someone waiting to turn across in front of me, slow down just a touch and flash my lights and they’ll sit…

The Rivian one is interesting given how many long-term order holders are being passed over for newer order holders. They’re creating a lot of mistrust and bad air with their original supporters and early adopters, many of whom still haven’t got their vehicles while sitting watching people who ordered in 2021 and 2022…

It’s 2023 and Gran Turismo still has the most bone-stupid “AI” of any racing game, and they still don’t have damage.  Forza beats it on those two counts alone.