I’m 50. I figured her for 47 before reading the article.

so you’re asserting that companies are investing billions to be able to drop the price from $3 to $0.50?

Where DOES money come from for non-privately owned transport?

Make certain that you get the right interceptor version.

When you screw yourself on gas, most gas stations will helpfully sell you an $8 red gas can for $24.95 so that you can go buy $8 of their gas and carry it back to your car to get it to the station to presumably buy another $30-$100 of their gasoline.

Look up the cost of raising a child.

Ask and ye shall receive.

There are power poles with live wires in a lot of places. How hard to get the electricity down to street level?

I am not OK with illegal behavior, especially from businesses.

You are aware that both companies bypassed established law pertaining to taxi industry (the requirement for a medallion, criminal background checks and licensing of drivers, etc) and thus bankrupted most of the people who had invested their professional lives in obeying regulations pertaining to the taxi industry,…

What did Torchinsky say about this?

There is (was?) one at an auto repair shop here in the SF Bay Area.

Radioactive Diamond Batteries.

I submit Harley Davidson’s experiences with Buell and the Livewire in its dealerships regarding culture shift.

Some very serious first-world problems here!

I’d start with the fact that they don’t have hydraulic brakes. I was in East Berlin in 1991 and looked at several. Hydraulic brakes became a thing in the 1920's. -At least in the west. Much of the Trabi’s 34-year production run didn’t bother with that newfangled crap.

New cars are a commodity. Each model comes from one assembly line as far as I know. Why not shop online, buy out of town, and fly out to drive it back on a road trip?

Buy van and wrench for a month/pass TUV/travel for a month.

There is an ass for every seat, my boy.

You just validated the theorem.