“Ladies” is considered by some women I know to be patronizing. Is the term “female” objectionable to you because of its etymology or is there another reason?

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When you are shipping cars to dealers that they didn’t ask for, that is not an analytical error, it‘s a strategy. The nice side effect is that high sales numbers gets you a better deal when negotiating a merger.

Ah the old “stuff the channel” trick that allows sales managers, corporate management, and even workers to defraud investors by taking performance bonuses they didn’t actually earn.

I want more freight trains to get the trucks off the road so I can drive. Big heavy trains are perfect for big heavy cargo but not so great for tiny meat bags. Now let’s concentrate on making highways safer, faster, and less polluting.

And that’s a pretty big achievement when we have exploding Takata airbags, VW Dieselgate, GM ignitions switches, Exxon Valdez, the financial crisis, Bhopal chemical spill, Philip Morris cigarettes, Allergan breast implants,...

In a word, greed. When everybody gets big bonuses for meeting deadlines, it becomes easy to create a culture where problems are papered over hoping the day of reckoning comes on the next guy’s watch. Think VW with diesel-gate.

In order to use the same airframe and call it a 737 (didn’t require new pilot training), Boeing mounted the bigger new engines in an unstable location. This requires complicated software to make it stable. Then they skimped on the sensors and readouts for the software to keep the price down. So it was a failure in…

And that would kinda ruin the whole idea.

“You bank the time in the Eastern states.” If you can get to the Mississippi with a great time then you try to just keep up the average and not screw it up the rest of the way. Otherwise you quit and try again another day.

Ha ha. As I was reading his post, I thought, ‘Well this is just the perfect post for an ok boomer.’

Yes my ‘64 Corvair is fully optioned with backup lights. The bottom level ‘500' spec had aluminum ‘pie plate’ blanking discs. Naturally they have now become the in accessory! Backup lights were federally mandated starting in 1966.

Because EV night charging profiles line up perfectly with solar generation.

Shrapnel air bags, safety ignition switches that turn off the car, and now flaming seat belts. Simplify and add lightness.

Well that answers the question, “What could be more pointless than running in circles?”

This car is gorgeous and has all the right specs except for the arbitrary top speed limiter. I love the front end treatment and the interior. I can even live with the center screen. Please build this.

A person that jaywalks suddenly into traffic during twilight is pretty high on the asshole meter. But they peg the dead asshole meter.

Don’t give in to the dark side, Luke.

Select is so choice.

The legacy manufacturers want the good press and investment dollars for going electric but the last thing they want is to actually sell any because they are losing money on each one. GM created a quality BEV (the Bolt) that was not compelling and didn’t market or train its dealers to sell and service. This is by…