It’s obviously the pickup driver fault. I’m glad no one was killed, and I seriously feel for everyone hit who’s going to have months of anguish dealing their insurance companies because there will certainly be months of the truck driver’s insurance trying to get everything paid by the pickup driver’s insurance that…

My thoughts on the manual were similar. Like the older Merc SLs I keep eyeing, the manual is arguably the worse transmission for the car, but that doesn’t stop me from really really wanting one. But I’m not paying this kind of premium for one when I can get an automatic with more cylinders. So ND from me.

My friend’s neighbor has a yard sign that says something like “I’d rather vote for a felon than a jackass”. It’s shit like that that makes you just want to give up sometimes. How can you help people who are working so hard against their own interests?

It’s funny how the extortion was only a secondary part of the scheme. Before that it’s just people working day jobs at a what’s probably 20x the pay they’d get at home and wondering why they can’t just leave and go work those jobs for real.

I used O’hare as an example because they are one of those quick flights that always finds a way to turn into a mess. Good to hear they are getting better though.

Shipping stuff is a good solution sometimes, but man has it gotten expensive. It also depends on the trip - it’s great if you’re heading to stay with family but less practical coordinating shipment to a hotel that gets there around the same time as you.

Man, I remember the days before paying to check a bag when overhead bin space wasn’t a hot commodity. No one was in a rush to board, there wasn’t any chaos, and I did my best to be one of the last people on the plane. Now I get to be one of the first on most flights, and have the joy of sitting on a hot plane for 25…

That’s a good point, which does beg the question of where the purchase came from. It says “the government” which probably doesn’t mean Biden himself, but was it related to something his administration is working on? Is it coming from elected officials (like a legislative sub-committee) or from non-elected…

Your right, it should be. Anyone who’s worked in a plant has seen some crazy shit. Workers will figure out how to circumvent any guarding you install to save time. They’ll skip PPE and ergonomic aids. That’s all the stuff that’s important in the “safety culture”. You’ve got to shut that shit down fast and make sure…

Safety is tough, not just because you have to setup a culture around it (and be serious about it, which seems to be where Tesla strayed) but there’s a lot of learned lessons. You can have walk-throughs over and over again, but it takes years to identify every issue, so every new manufacturing plant is going to have…

So yeah, sounds a lot like something we’d do in the US.

Jalopnik on Wednesday “big dumb dummy Trump thinks hydrogen cars are gonna blow you up”

For a second I thought “how much could fixing the battery cost”, and then realized that’s the big issue - you’re not going to have any support for this car. For that money you can buy a Leaf and be able to keep it on the road without being an electrical engineer (though it would certainly help).

He’ll have whaling legalized before the Exxon lobbyist even gets a chance to explain oil to him.

1st Gear: I’m down for Pete to stay on with Harris if that’s an option.

You mean NP, right?

That’s the key - don’t make any false promises. No express warranty obviously (unless you want to honor it for some reason). Will a “needs nothing -this car will perform perfectly for years to come” statement end in a civil suit on a $3000 beater? Almost certainly not. But on a 5 figure car, it might. And while you…

It still seems high, though. The big thing that sticks out to me is the range.

“hey, you know how we had fun with the New Beetle interior, and how fantastic of a job Fiat has done with the retro and cheerful interiors on the 500s? Don’t you fucking dare do any of that shit” - some design executive to his interior team, apparently.

I wanted to say ND, and the mileage is there to back that up....