I can’t tell you how much I disagree that using the term “autopilot” somehow implicates Tesla, as if the man wasn’t specifically trained, educated, and reminded on the limitations of the system. He was willfully and foolishly risking his life despite all warnings.

The definition of autopilot isn’t something that takes full control. That would be an autonomous car. Autopilot is something that reduces driver workload, like autopilot on an aircraft.

Much like autopilot on planes, where the term originated. It’s arguable that the colloquial interpretation of the term means Tesla should have chosen something else, but it is hardly without precedent.

Operating an honored publication at a loss is a thing rich people have done for a long time. This story is the first I’ve heard of this guy but about five minutes of due diligence should’ve been enough for him to find out this would be a money pit. Only at idiot would buy the VV and expect to make a profit.

Never forget that there is a difference between a liberal and a progressive.

There’s nothing really shocking about this at all.

I applied for a job in a congressional office recently and midway through the process they sent me annual salary: $26,000. In DC. On top of that, this position combined three roles that would ordinarily be done by at least two people.

Everyone’s pro-union until they become management and realize they could buy that sweet ass new Porsche for the low low price of some union busting. Or, I dunno, Faberge eggs don’t grow on trees and Stadium Events cartridges don’t blow themselves, whatever the conspicuous consumption peccadilloes might be.

Liberal or conservative, it’s gonna be hard to find a rich person who actually supports unions. You don’t get rich(or stay rich) without caring for your bottom line above all other considerations.

Peter Barbey, again, is a self-proclaimed liberal.

# Every minute I am late for work stuck in traffic is a minute that I am not at my desk making money for the shareholders of my company.

I would argue white collar work is not linear in time in the same way blue collar work is, so you cant automatically associate 1-hour delays with lost productivity.

1960 would be the greatest generation that built the infrastructure. Let see what came next, yes the baby boomers, the selfish generation. They sat on their hands, ran up the debt, bankrupted social security, left medicare unfunded, rose to be a generation of worthless CEOs that did nothing but shuffle numbers.
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I feel like you’re in the position of a climate scientist telling people that shit will get bad soon, but no one wants to listen because carbon mitigation will cost money now and you can’t literally see ocean acidification happening in front of your eyes. We’re a stupid, shortsighted species.

I work in IT infrastructure, where we deal with the same exact math and costs, just on shorter time spans and lower dollar amounts. So where you talk thirty to fifty years and a million dollars, I talk 3 to 5 years and $10,000.

Every minute I am late for work stuck in traffic is a minute that I am not at my desk making money for the shareholders of my company.

So I read the article and while I agree that we are not using the infrastructure efficiently, you tell anyone who commutes to work in a major city that there is too much infrastructure and they’ll have hours of time to talk to you as they sit in traffic, or are stuck on overcrowded trains. Also, if you tear down a…

I appreciate your maths and analysis, but if I’m going to be entirely honest I could be an hour late to work and I’d still get the exact same amount of work done that day than I would have otherwise.

I agree, if the worker can get his, more power to him. But a system that lets that happen in the first place is obviously broken. $90k/yr to take tickets and then a pension that’s the same amount every year? That’s insane, and it’s no wonder virtually every pension system in America ends up collapsing.

Worker collecting what was promised isn’t news.

Glad to see you’re going out of your way to make sure we blame the workers.