Wrong.

I don’t see it really at all in the first LX, but I sort of do in the refresh. Still, the production car is so upright and boxy, it gives off an entirely different vibe to me.

Problem is that vehicles that have come out in the last 5-10 years have still been designed and signed off by the people responsible for GM 15-20 years ago. The change in workforce generations has not caught up to the leadership roles quite yet, but it’s moving. Having a whole slew of “trendy designers and smart…

Oh, I see. You’re raising an entirely meaningless concern.

Is anybody surprised Elon doesn’t like day to day management? He wants to fantasize about going to Mars, not think of new quality assurance processes. I have to admit that I wouldn’t either if I were in his shoes. 

I’m not sure that someone in Japan sharing your fetish is the big deal you’re making it out to be. I mean, isn’t creating fetishes Japan’s main industry? There’s a new one like every hour.

I think in the spirit of truth in advertising, Tesla needs to rename Full Self-Driving to what it actually is, Pay Us 10 Grand To Babysit An AI Fifteen Year Old Learning How To Drive.

It also makes it easier to sell those companies to competitors or merge them to provide engines to multiple companies.

Question. Is there like a special school where gifted gifted orphans go to be raised and trained to come up with stupid company names?

I find it highly amusing that you think Volvo is somehow cherished for the 4-5-6 cylinder “white block” modular engine family. Volvo is synonymous with the unkillable iron-block “red block” motors they built for 40+ years, not the relatively fragile aluminum engine family they built for about 20.

What the owner was shouting: “FOLLOW THE SHUT DOWN PROCEDURE OR YOU’LL BLOW THE TURBOS!!!!”

He should say he had Carlos Ghosn in the hatch. 

Suspects include noted celebrities Nicholas Cage and Vin Diesel.  It's a nice get.

Largest source of revenue for SpaceX is private satellite launches. The government does pay for launches, but a lot of those are launches the government would have done anyways- SpaceX is just cheaper. There’s also the Starlink system, which is likely to be a pretty big revenue source as it gets out of its beta stages.

Instead, I hereby propose a simple, achievable definition of “going to space,” which is that you must orbit the Earth at least once while you’re up there, something that Branson did not do.

*insert Stormy Daniels joke here*

It’s 80K vs 100K, and what the USA recognizes I guess. However, I think orbit for 1 earth rotation should be the standard to go by. $250K for a minute and a half in space, seems like a waste of money

So Mazda has enough money to make an EV that nobody will buy, but not enough money to add the range extender that makes it useful for many people.

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s people’s capacity for advanced planning and willingness to endure minor inconvenience for the sake of others.