Especially the “However, many households sell their vehicle before they get there” line is dumb, because the vehicle doesn’t stop being environmentally friendly when it moves to its second or third owner. Who cares if it takes until the 2nd owner until it becomes a net positive for the environment if the first owner…

In the U.S., the typical non-luxury EV needs to log between 28,069 and 68,160 miles before netting any emissions benefits.

Yeah, with how much people bitch about gas prices, maybe buying a smaller, more efficient car isn't bad advice if you're also put off by current pricing?

I wasn’t specifically talking about Chicago and I wasn’t talking about places with high condo concentrations. I was talking about sacrificing quality for quantity, which at the end of the day is what Mr McParland was advocating for.

Besides, yards are over-rated. I have a tiny house, but a big-ass yard. Most of that yard, however, is hillside, and I do well just to keep it mowed. I don’t even bother with worrying about weeds and all that - it’s maybe 50% actual grass, 50% clover/violets/random foliage. But I’m on the outskirts of a rural small…

You can get a three-bedroom house around 1,000 sq. ft. I know because I live in one.

Also, totally agree with your point. Going from a Highlander to a Camry isn’t much of a pivot unless you really needed that third row.

“This is like seeing someone shopping for a single-family home in a bonkers real-estate market, and advising them, “Well, obviously if those three-bedroom homes with a yard are too expensive you should just buy a one-bedroom condo… because it will be cheaper!””

This seems just hyperbolic to me. Your example would be more like:

If you are shopping for a single family, three bedroom, 2500sqft house, try shopping for one under 2000sqft. Maybe if you had said Highlander to Yaris it would be a better comparison but also just as inane.

I would prefer to buy a small car over a larger vehicle because it is easier to drive, less anxiety about parking the thing, better fuel economy, and the feeling that you are not wasting so much space in a smaller vehicle if you are driving by yourself or one passenger 99 percent of the time. 

I’m a very early preorder holding for an R1S and I have been waiting patently for 4 years now...

So in other words... the app worked exactly as it was supposed to. It automatically calculated the fare based on time and duration, and billed it. But when the customer called for support pointing out this was obviously absurd they refunded him.

Great article, more in depth stuff like this please.

Anyone who has ever driven in (for example) San Francisco would never get angry at someone for shoehorning their car into the nearest available spot, regardless of how difficult it’s going to be for the people on either side to get out. 

I’m in no mood to have coherent, sensible arguments, so I’ll just write what I’m feeling right now upon reading all this and comments like yours:

You’re not an intelligent person and nobody values the things you have to say.

I sent a letter to Ford with a proposed plan to use exhaust gas to defrost the windshield in roughly the same time frame; Ford wrote me back explaining that there were issues with that type of thing, and included a booklet about designing cars. I still have it somewhere. Just being treated somewhat seriously by a…

How were the refreshments?

Tip: get the steak ordered rare, and then you can afford to cook it to medium and at least be semi-enjoyable.

I tend to agree on this point. I personally think that GMC is a waste, since a base GMC is just a Chevy truck with a different grill, and a Denali is just an Escalade without the badge.

Fuck this guy. I am a two-time loser (which is nothing to be proud of), and while the hardest thing I have ever done, bar none, is give up alcohol forever, I did it and have been sober for more than seven years.