Putting $42k into an SP500 fund back in 2009 and then never looking at it again would have resulted in $250-$350k today (depending on if dividends were reinvested). Buying a car to never drive it as an investment is just so stupid.

If Tesla had an employee who hadn’t made a notable positive impact on the company in three years and was found to be working at three other companies at the same time, what would Tesla’s response be?
Pretty sure they wouldn’t push to give that employee more money to try to keep their attention. It would be better for…

For all the folks saying they’ll get robbed or vandalized in a day, we have several here in Los Angeles (a supposed post-apocalypic hellscape depending on where you get your news), half a dozen over a 4 miles stretch of the main road near my house and they’ve been fine for years. Hidden off in a back alley or poorly…

Buying a used car is a risk, buying a used rental car is a big risk. I doubt these are any bigger of risk than a general used rental car. They sold 10,000 of them quickly, naturally that’s going to create a couple hundred horror stories.

Yeah, Business Insider’s math makes absolutely zero sense here and should not be repeated. He made $65k in gross income because Uber’s cut never should have been stated. His $44k mileage deduction just means he doesn’t owe any taxes on that income (no idea why that number is being subtracted). He had an estimated $25k…

1. Scammer searches houses for sale (expecting/hoping they are empty)
2. Scammer contacts contractors to do work on that home (often trying to get off the books/non-licensed types)
3. Scammer sends that contractor a check for the work. The check is for more than the agreed upon price.
4. Scammer requests and gets a “refun…

Two things can be true at the same time - 1. No one should run from cops (nor should anyone answer any questions from cops without a lawyer, but that’s a different discussion) and this guy’s decisions led to his own death.
2. High speed chases put the public at much greater risk and have much higher costs than is…

I have had a couple sightings of them out in the wild lately and they are just so damn unbelievably ugly. Photos just haven’t done justice to how odd the proportions are and how ungainly it looks on the road. Definitely looks like a prop from an 80's sci-fi movie, but less Blade Runner and more Space Mutiny.

Stretching to the absolute limit of what could be technically possible while knowing you wouldn’t have to actually build it, but just reasonable enough that it can be included in a racing sim that values realism? Yeah, I think they can do that. It’s a made up number, but one that would have some thought behind it.

It’s for a game where all the cars have real world performance specifications. The car won’t be made in the real world, but it’s an accurate reflection of what it would produce.

Man, the douchebags are out in force in the comments so far. Incredible that so many were born as 52 year olds instead of ever being kids. And of course, none of their parents had any sort of lapse in attention, so giving others even the slightest bit of grace or benefit of the doubt is completely out of the question.
I…

They just keep adding zeroes to the eventual settlement they’ll pay the family. Of course, it’s the tax payers who will foot the bill and not anyone in a position of authority. Plus, it’s Mississippi, so those authorities (probably rightly) assume no one is going to remove them from office.

Yes and it really is a shame since we are obviously required to click, read, and comment on Jalopnik articles because there are absolutely no other “car enthusiast” options on the internet.

Yes, it makes sense to put view blocking film up on these bridges to prevent folks from overloading the bridges to watch the race. It doesn’t make sense to put them up three weeks before the race blocking some of the most popular view/photo spots on the strip. Everyone involved should have known this would have…

Is it just me, or do the helmets they’re wearing in the first pic look unusually ginormous? Are they hairmets?

2019ish Kia Niro EV or PHEV. Great cars, tax credit, economical all around and cheap to maintain.

You do you, too. Certainly hope you’re never personally impacted by a cop killing someone close to you or your family. Unfortunate things happen, but if those things are almost entirely preventable, then it’s a societal failing not to correct them.

I think this all shows that executive stock option rewards need to be heavily regulated, if not outright banned by the SEC. Besides it being a tax-dodge, it’s a main reason so many companies are so hyper-focused on stock valuation instead of building a long-term, sustainable company (those two things are not the same…

Except, ya know, the several documented cases where cops shot and killed people within moments of exiting their vehicle, or giving conflicting/no instructions whatsoever, or when they break down the wrong door and enter the wrong house, or with an individual obviously not in a mental state to properly follow your…

So cops are allowed to kill anyone they want for any offense, real or imaginary. Good plan.