Those might be valid points....

And didn’t Tesla take over NUMMI, where Toyota used to manufacture cars?!

BYD is in more markets than just China, just as Ford is in more markets than the US.

Nah, fuck that. This is entirely Toyota’s fault.

the tech bro pipe dream of passive income from using your car as a robotaxi

Firstly, I doubt that you would want to move cargo on the Shinkansen line. Cargo trains weigh MUCH more than passenger trains, which means that it would take much more energy to reach bullet train speeds. And we haven’t even talked about slowing down a cargo train going that fast! Or the wear on the rails.

I know we all talk about how physical buttons and knobs are better than touchscreens, but there are ways to seriously fuck up those as well.

This is certainly great news for British medical examiners who work for the DOD

Hawkeye : did you take his pulse?

One thing to keep in mind is that large corporations patent absurd ideas not because they want to bring them to market, but because they want to prevent others from working on them

I don’t do Enterprise. They screwed me on a rental by giving me a beat-up car, got full assurances from multiple staff members that all of damages were noted as pre-existing, and I STILL got charged.

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If I start getting refunds for any flight delayed more than three hours, I'll have to start trying to fly through Charlotte instead of avoiding it like the plague!

‘Cuz that worked out sooooo well for the Miami PD

But here’s the thing with the Volvo guy: he only owned it for a few months. Even if he had a 2% interest rate on the loan, the balance wouldn’t have been that much lower.

In this case, it’s the rapid depreciation, not the interest rate, that got him.

You do realize that “lowering prices for consumers” is not an absolute good, right?

Just look at American auto industry shifting production to Mexico.

Or the rise of Walmart.  

Hopefully they didn’t catch any flak from their boss..

Not to “well, akshually...” your joke, but it’s not about North Korea’s economy.

At least THAT makes sense for Germany, though