The old E=1/2mv^2 equation is unshakeable. The only way to reduce energy is to reduce mass or speed.

You shouldn’t believe their reports. John Oliver did a great episode on McKinsey, I suggest watching it.

McKinsey isn’t nearly as smart as McKinsey would like you to believe. Their advice is mostly boilerplate cost-cutting, layoffs, reorganizations, and the like. I’m somewhat ashamed that one of my (former?) friends from grad school works for them.

2nd Gear: While reducing the number of Brontosaurus-sized vehicles on the road would be better for safety (pedestrian and otherwise), reducing the speed limit is absolutely the easier regulation to enforce.

Yes please. I’ve used AAA’s car-buying service twice, and it’s excellent. Tell them what you want and how much you want to pay and they do the rest. Delivered to my door. Never saw a dealership employee, far as I know.

Nope. I’m a scientist. Never worked a register, never sold anything as a part of my job in my life.

Not gonna fight you, I know I’m wrong haha!

Nothing with back seats can ever be a proper track car.

There is no national DMV. They are state agencies.

I bought my last two cars through AAA brokers, rather than dealing with a dealership. I totally get it. I didn’t even have to go to a dealer, they brought the cars to my house. I filled out forms, paid the delivery guy, and it was l done. But the broker does serve some use insofar as ensuring I understood what I was…

Simplicity and ease of purchasing is fine and dandy for ordinary, day-to-day items. Items that are only a few dollars. Maybe a few hundred. Cars are different.

I definitely read that last line with “movie trailer announcer voice” and it was very amusing for me!

Oh bless your heart (jokes!)

Some will trust it. Some won’t survive their trust. Some who don’t survive their trust won’t be the ones who gave said trust in the first place.

Excellent reference, my good sir.

Unless the ratio of remote drivers to remotely-driven vehicles is 1:1, there’s gonna be problems. And the cost of paying a remote driver for every remotely-driven cab is going to be too high.

There are already numerous options in the ~$100,000 price range that fit this bill of lunacy. What’s one more?

You grow the beard before doing the premeditated crime.

People with money rarely become victims, let alone martyrs.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again here. Understanding how compound interest works should be a (the only?) requirement to graduate from high school. The rest you can look up as needed or learn on the job.