Maybe this whole thing with the Secret Service and the Beast is all just security theater brought about by overreactions to domestic gun policies leading to notable outliers, and the world is really a lot more safe than the press allows us to believe? Nah, sorry, sounding silly, I mean, why keep us all living in fear…

It sounds like a lot of eggs in one basket, but from a security standpoint a single vehicle is going to be much easier to keep an eye on than thirty of them.

And a salami!

I used to commute this road nearly every day for 5 years between Hollywood and Marina del Rey. This street (La Brea) can feel like a mini-freeway which goes over the Baldwin Hills area. It is a really steep gradient each side and since she was coming downhill not hard to see how a Mercedes E450 could get up to that…

That lady should never have been in a hospital as a nurse. She should’ve been in an institution

They’re scrambling hard right now and making amazing progress..

Very true, but the coking issue was more about the fuel than the car.

and my push behind mower has more amenities than those cars, and it’s still only $400

How many jobs where someone who makes 40k in California have workplaces with showers?

I didn’t even bother to hit play. While I’m interested in the subject since I own a Ford, I’m not so interested I want to watch a video when an article would have worked.

that already happens, in the form of our ridiculously high yearly DMV renewal fees.

$1,000 isn’t even close to enough to pay for the extra time one would spend on public transit vs. a privately owned vehicle. Even gridlocked rush hour traffic is going to move faster than most public transportation arteries, plus there’s the bonus of going door-to-door in your own car, instead of having to cover that…

Stupid that it’s income capped. Not sure on the logic if you’re trying to encourage everyone to minimize car purchases. Also, how is income capping even a thing post-Plessy v Ferguson? Seems classifying people by income and treating them differently goes against this decision.

without a proper public transportation system it’ll just go directly to Uber and maybe causing more emissions and heavy traffic

Yeah, this is really unfortunate. I wish the revolution in EV also occurred in heavy equipment. It’s slow but it’s happening with newer models. Unfortunately everyone wants to maximize profits so everything is sold at a premium vs at parity (or below w/ maintenance factored in) with ICE counterparts.

Oh you are 100% right, EV is the “Sexy” pick. The thing is, if you look at materials and cost PHEV or Hybrid is the real way to go to reduce carbon emissions the fastest and cheapest way in the personal transportation segment. I feel like that should be the end goal, not “get rid of gas” or whatever else.

Currently ethanol production requires about 90% of the energy it contains to be used in processing it. This is one reason you don’t see ethanol “farmers” operating their plows and harvesters on a closed cycle with the ethanol they produce.

Progress is made by dragging people kicking and screaming across the threshold.

Louder, for the people in the back.

California’s trying to become our nation’s second Third-World state, behind Mississippi. How can you ban gasoline cars in 10 years if you can’t fuel EVs? It’s like the state is living in a fantasy realm.