Still far, far worse than actually paying attention.

“Hey guys, want to buy my massive legal liabilities? No? What gives?”

Exactly this. It’s basically “this can do everything for you, except when all of a sudden it can’t and you’re totally responsible for catching it right at the moment it conks out.  Hope you don’t kill anybody, because it’s totally YOUR fault if our software fails and you can’t save yourself from whatever the fuck just…

It’s amusing to watch this nonsense. One company makes a gizmo designed to command as much eyeball time as possible, one company makes a gizmo designed to carry it’s passengers down the road while paying as little attention as possible.

Shut it down, we are done here.

It's certainly a striking and unusual one. Those stick with me better than boring names like "Greenville"

When I was in grad school at Duke, I had a tendency to lean back in chairs, balancing them on two legs instead of the traditional four.

Ah, but that’s why we aren’t billionaires, isn’t it?

Working from the old adage that “the cheapest Ferrari will become the most-expensive Ferrari,” this one seems like a pretty good way to dip one’s toes into the wild world of classic exotic car ownership.

I laughed!

You are 99.9998% right (p<0.05).

I laughed most heartily. Well done!

Answer: anyone who is sane.

Maybe it’s like those iPhones that everyone was "holding wrong" and definitely didn’t have glaring antenna design flaw.

I kind of love "Chubbatruck" and will be adopting the name.

I laughed!

Hey, parts of NC aren’t basically “North Florida!”

While I had also forgotten about Lordstown, I think there was another vaporware company that was promising some sort of super-efficient, super-compact motor. That was their only thing; they wanted to be a supplier for EV companies.  

I didn’t say there was anything wrong with it!  That’s exactly what my parents are.  When they don’t have to watch my brother’s ever-increasing brood, that is.

Lexus RX. Every boomer coming out of a CR-V looking to “finally splurge a bit” is buying them, my parents included.