It’s already trivial. It’s already done. I’ve worked in projects that track customers. The only change is you now get to benefit instead of doing it unknowingly purely for a company’s benefit.

Don’t forget two important points: 1) that was essentially 6 months of sales of vs 12 for a Fusion and 2) I doubt Chevy was making $10k in profit on each car.

“Nobody died last year.”
- SantaBarbarian

*Posts link to data from 2014. Includes 2 fatalities.

Ok... the data:

We use the “you break it you own it” system. Someone proposes something. You shoot it down, you are responsible for picking.  Someone knocks down that idea it continues until someone is happy enough that they don’t want to have to offer a suggestion. 

“Ask yourself what you want.” - Best advice I ever got.

If you know what you want it’s straight forward to find a path to the destination. Usually people just wing it without a clear objective and then are frustrated that they aren’t making progress. If you don’t have a compass pointing you in a consistent direction…

I would associate the “Skateboard” with the Hydrogen Fuel Cell efforts of the 90s GM rather than Tesla. GM really was the first I was aware of to plan on building a literal platform on which to build their cars by simply putting different bodies bolted onto a skateboard. Then again Tesla actually built production cars…

ANY woman/[non-binary] person trying to get into Contenders. They will ALL now be subject to ‘lol are you real??’ harassment.”

“Shareholders are probably concerned as to whether their money is being used efficiently.”

One gauge of the spread of the uncertainty of the 1970s was a 2008 study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society titled The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus. It was a survey of climate articles published between 1965 and 1979 in the scientific literature, rather than of those…

Yeah GM really ran into the problem of their core customer demographic in the US being anti-hippie V8 loving ‘real Americans’.

So when a customer walked in you not only had to convince them that it was economically smart to go with an electric motor but you also had to convince them that “The batteries will need to be…

Sure EVs lose a ton of range in cold weather but how much range do you need? Modern EVs are 250+ miles. Even if it was half range (very very cold weather) that’s still 125 miles a day.

Most people who live in extreme cold climates have driveways. The venn diagram overlap of dense urban dwellers and extreme cold…

I’m satisfied when I get an Impala rental. I’m happy when I get an Altima rental. Just got a Ford... honestly I can’t remember... “Edge” (is that a crossover that Ford makes?) rental and it was very disappointing compared to the Rav 4s I test drove with someone recently.

And the Fusion was the European Fusion wasn’t it? So the Volvo C30 and the Ford Euro Fusion I believe were the same Chassis. Then they gave up on the US Fusion and just started manufacturing the European fusion model and it was a huge success because it was actually a good car.

car-buying public seems apathetic to GM’s car lineup

I have a google price watch on a flight route for Christmas to family and they have not changed today. 

This is a take that makes zero sense. “Do you want a Mustang? Well you have to buy Shell oil for life.” “Do you want Game of thrones? Well you have to buy a Vizio TV.” “Do you want to watch a Spiderman movie? It’s only on Sony TVs.” “Do you want a Spider-Man comic? Well you have to buy a Google Pixel 2 to look at it.”

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Whoever puts up the money calls the shots

Screw exclusives. Gamers waste a lot of breath complaining about day one DLC, lack of physical disks, casual mobile games and all manner of ultimately meaningless bullshit while then turning around and rewarding the worst of all anti-consumer tactics: exclusives.

Exclusives should die a horrible death.   And any…

Our mail-in ballot system has a ballot tracker which lets you see if they received and accepted your ballot or not. 

I literally heard this argument:
“There must be widespread voter fraud in our vote by mail system because democrats keep winning and I don’t know a single democrat.”

That’s why.

And to be clear I live in Washington state, one of the most liberal places in the country that someone said that.