I’m a manager at a 4 year old silicon valley startup that’s in its first full year of revenue and I thoroughly relate to Lucid right now...lol. 

Though, honestly I’m fine with subscriptions for things that do cost the automaker to provide on an ongoing basis and are optional. 

“We’re no better than the thugs who stormed the Capitol.”

You assess your risk, I’ll assess mine.

“Being a bicyclist is incredibly dangerous in America”

• Texas - $3.70 Regular | $4.04 Mid | $4.35 Premium | $4.73 Diesel

Alcohol and who knows what else, these days.

• Places socket over seized bolt.

Hard argument to make now that you can downloads maps to use offline. 

How do you grope your underlings over Zoom? Everyone must go back to the office.

Best statement on this topic. This sums it up.

I haven’t talked to my facility manager in months. Pre-pandemic it was several times a week. We still get everything done. Quality has gone up.

What makes you think that $60k doesn’t fit into Honda and GM’s definition of “affordable”?

This particular one doesn’t look like it would have triggered the nannies though. Seems like he was going dead straight until he rear-ended someone. No amount of stability control is gonna prevent that.

You were just a good ol boy, never meaning no harm.

I’ve had neighbors with RVs and friends with RVs.   I’ll say this for them.  They weren’t as broke as the ones with boats.

I very much doubt EVs will follow the price curve of consumer electronics. The technology to make a plasma panel back then was expensive - but the materials needed to make one were not - it’s fundamentally sand, plastic, steal, and a bit of copper and whatnot. An EV need s crapload of VERY expensive materials to make,…

Jalopnik: We hate people with money, cars, trucks and EVs But we love brown stickshift wagons, reposting 7 year old posts and slideshows.

Tesla’s

Ooooooooh I love that first one. I’ll say “I have a guy offering me my asking price, so that.” Either they’ll try to beat the “other guy” (who may or may not even be real) or they’ll sod off. Either way it’s a win.