This. It’s theater. Obviously, at least CLEAR’s “biometrics” are a myth from these reports. Wondering how effective TSA’s are.

Guessing the insurance cost of giving a car you don’t own to a teenager is going to require three jobs to pay for.

Torn on #3:

This. Flagged.

A national average here means nearly nothing given electricity prices vary by region pretty severely. Example, in Dec ‘22, the average price per kWh in Seattle was $0.118. In New York: $0.231. In Houston, $0.190.

“people get bored with them and want the new shiny at about the same rate they always have.”

GM makes like $145 Billion in revenue every year. And their profit is only $10-$15 billion of that. Conservatively that’s 8-9%? Well below average for, say we use this as a comparator, the average Fortune 500 company.  And sinking.

Obviously people do not buy cars primarily for the tech. Otherwise the advances over the past 10 years would have resulted in higher sales, not in a decline.

Notwithstanding the obvious problems this causes for sale volume, hiring, etc: Isn’t this a more efficient way to do things? Make new cars a bit more expensive, and have them last longer?

What goes unsaid in this article is that “Sunsuper Riverfire” is Australian for “A normal Summer day.” Poison, and water-on-fire: Australia’s calling-cards.

Hey, those self-driving cars don’t come cheap.

“(It’s tricky to compare ride-hail take rates with the taxi industry in any meaningful way, where drivers are on the hook for fixed expenses such as dispatching services, leasing the taxi and/or paying off the cost of a medallion. Taxi drivers have to pay those fees regardless of how much money they earn. In fact,…

One side of mouth: “I’m tired of paying the Middle East for oil.”

So much this. When I was a kid, SoCal was what Beijing is today, air-quality-wise. I can remember spending every recess for a month indoors because of third-stage smog alerts. California saved itself by imposing stricter air emissions requirements from cars, factories, and other major sources.

It DOES feel more like an actual memory of went on. No one sees with the benefit of steadicam, a tripod, zoom, all these advancements that are ubiquitously used with video in the 2010's.

Not really. When parts inevitably just fall out of the bottom of the things, you can just scrape from the median of every freeway on Earth for ‘em.

One race in three years does not a pattern make. Agree.

Certainly the series is much more interesting than the actual racing. Might be the most pre-determined racing series ever devised. But at least they’ve fooled all the also-rans to continue participating...for some reason.

That test seems logically not only for driverless vehicles. We should include that in every test for a driver license, since we know 75% of drivers will be doing this, daily, on their commute.

“It needs a standard, so that when someone gets in a semi-autonomous car, they know how to use it, how not to abuse it, and fundamentally, that the silly thing will work properly.”