The Waymo taxis have mechanical LIDAR scanners on the roof and at each corner, and they operate in carefully limited environments. No way Musk’s ego would permit that much caution, expense or maintenance.

Cops hate cyclists full stop.

It’s been Blue Flu since 2020 when the “please stop killing so many people” protests hort their fee-fees.

Saw some kids trying to be Twelve O’clock Boys on Market St. in SF the other day, on some kind of cheap electric dirtbikes. I assume they were Sur Rons.

Take away their Gawb-gibben right to DRIVE? This is AMERICA ya commie. Besides, you could end up throwing the son of a cop or local auto dealer into jail, which could cause all kinds of trouble.

Came here to say the same about Ram. It’s a Dodge Ram, sold and serviced at the Dodge dealership.

It works like the old Churchill quote: “You can depend upon the Americans to do the right thing. But only after they have exhausted every other possibility.”

This is exactly up my alley, though I’m not buying any more bikes until I kick a couple more out of the garage. The V7s are very attractive to me but I always wanted a touch more displacement.

Bradley, I know the Herb doesn’t give hazard pay for psychic damage, but I will bet a tasty beverage that he actually said something more like “and uh [unintelligible] 100 200 percent because *grunt* Mexicans the women, y’know women love me an’ [looks around] John Deere! Great American company beautiful tractors…

I put more care into dumb social media jokes, and these guys have a friggin’ edit button and nobody scolding them about alt-text.

Was going to snark about “influencers” flaunting their travel but not using the Precheck lane, but realized that whatever their own circumstances, they’re performing for audiences that don’t get to travel much and definitely don’t have Precheck.

Motocompo!
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Manned Maneuvering Units for deorbit, ablative surfboards for reentry and parachutes for touchdown. Cowabunga!

That’s the kind of awesome your extra $1m (or whatever) buys you.

I know I‘ll never see one, and every single one will be sold to war criminals and labor thieves, but the engineering behind the car is cool, and I want it to exist.

Only good thing about Jackass is that they used “Corona” by The Minutemen as a theme song, which probably paid for Mike Watt’s fun musical career after we lost D. Boon.

It’s a shame they can’t part out the motors, batteries and inverters for homebuilders.

In a sense, you could argue the Miata is just a poor person’s Utopia Roadster.

Team Oregon offers an Advanced Rider Training class that’s in the ballpark of this, and they even used to teach the Akira Slide. Truly a mind-blowing experience for a regular street rider.

Look, it can handle the 80% of situations where nobody’s in danger, why quibble about the 20% of situations where the car might be wrecked and someone might be killed?