“Drug dealers have cool cars”

So if I am ever speeding in Irvine, the best way to lose the cops is to drive through a carwash?

As a 40 year resident of Irvine, this surprises me. Kids are driving Cybertrucks to school here, so I doubt that a student being forced to sit through a DARE presentation will be all that impressed. As noted in the post below, just take a car from the drug seizure lot and be done with it.

Since when does a police department actually pay for a “community engagement” vehicle? Around me they’re all either cars seized from drug dealers or free surplus MRAPs.

That whole McDonalds story is a tremendous example of how a corporation would prefer to dump money into PR than actually do the right thing after they screw up because they deemed the PR cheaper. 

Why do automakers insist on installing electrically powered doors? Just give us manual door locks like we’ve had forever. They work. They are easy to fix. They don’t require idiotic emergency levers. Stop overcomplicating things that work perfectly fine.

I really don’t understand why this is legal. Every trunk is required to have a glow in the dark handle that can open it from the inside at any time but for some reason it’s okay for normal ass doors to just become unopenable under common emergency situations.

SpaceX isn’t exploring space, it’s dumping a bunch of shit in low earth orbit. We went there in the 1950s. 

There was until the OTA wipe request got sent from Austin.

There is a problem making a direct correlation of increased pedestrian deaths with larger vehicles unless the data directly shows that deaths are only occurring when larger vehicles hit legal pedestrians.

Man, it really sucks when someone tells you what you can and can’t do with your body, like, taking away your choice to do something.

Most, if not all, have recommendations from the manufacturer in the manual, as well as reminders within the charging software re: how to maintain battery health. As you’ve suggested, it’s usually as simple as setting max charge to 80% and not dropping below 20%. People like to make things seem difficult.

Harley riders are on a different level of awful for this.

“Carolina Squat” is stupid, the whole “stanced” look is dumb (and not exactly safe either, right?), but I reserve my highest level of disdain for any vehicle with an excessively-loud exhaust and their drivers who insist on forcing everyone to hear their crappy vehicle and pay attention to them.

LED lights stuck into headlight housings meant for halogen bulbs.

A U.S. CEO can certainly screw things up too, but I don’t think GM’s Carplay decision is even close to the existential problem facing Stellantis. 

I typed a similar comment and then deleted it. HD is in the business of making money, that’s it. They’re no different than any other major brand.  HD doesn’t care about DEI any more than Bud Light did.  They care about money.  That’s it.  Money.

If you think that this has anything to do with ideology, or personal beliefs, you are mistaken. HD corporate knows their customer base, they know whom to pander. There was a board meeting somewhere, there were statistical displays, they compared to revenue forecasts and decided, that this is the way to make more…

“Or if you don’t mind paying nearly $5 more than California’s average gas price, pull in and knock yourself out.”

According to Andrews, another reason why the frequency of air patrol has fallen is that it was never cost-effective for helicopters to loiter over a section of freeway to catch speeders.