What makes you think manufacturers get to dictate what is and isn’t ‘affordable’?

Yup. The years of subsidized Teslas make people expect that “affordable EV” means you get a luxury car for budget prices.

Oh fuck no. Southwest needs to get thrown under the bus here. This is their fault. By standardizing unassigned seating they practically invented this behavior and taught people to be self-centered jackasses when boarding a plane. Otherwise you end up in the middle seat with your bag 10 rows behind you.

I don’t think people are doing it maliciously

They’re sold out because of the press on the prior sold out model.

the average cost for an EV in the US is $60,000. Just make a simple EV hatchback already and sell it in America for $25,000. I will buy it, I promise.

“You can’t manage people properly without the human element” - All the middle managers who are terrified they might need to get real jobs now that we’ve proven their cushy jobs are mostly useless.

“in the UK” isn’t necessary at the end of that sentence.

This is what kills me about the people who claim they always obey traffic laws.

Yeah, seriously...

I feel like every kid learns this the hard way at some point in their young driving experience. It’s just that some of us are luckier than others about when and where.

In general I’d think that the odds of crashing are significantly higher during the first few miles in any new car vs. the later miles.

Zoom in closer on that picture.

Viewing urban housing development as a binary choice between luxury condos or section 8 housing is practically the center of this whole problem

This discussion could easily dovetail out of control on how infrastructure works

It’s an 18 minute ride and costs $70 round trip.

Edit: Replied to the wrong person!

The Paris Metro is the only place where somebody has ever peed on me and then been mad at me for it.

But Washington DC’s Metro system is pretty good. Likely not in the top 1000 world wide, but by US standards, it’s very good

We don’t need a moonshot. We just need the political will to build enough modern nuclear to satisfy our energy needs, and to properly deal with the waste. Almost all the issues and costs associated with fixing the problem are of our own political making.