High-speed rail in the middle of the interstate- or even just visible from the interstate in places- would be brilliant!

Agreed, but in my mind, hub that shit and figure out last-mile solutions from the suburban ranch to the train station. There’s a good place for AVs, actually- robo-Uber from your front door to the train station a mile or so away. Or, y’know, walk.

This all seems to me like a problem that’s had a solution for well over a century already. Decent commuter rail is easier than automating cars, right? There’s no reason to get rid of all cars, but we could drastically reduce the numbers of them on the road and apparently give a lot of people the extra free time they…

A decent rail system could easily do this, like it does almost everywhere else in the world.

I’m fairly vocal about being anti-IoT, but that is an actually valid argument for it, at least in fridges.

I for one would love DeNiro to drive me on my daily home-preschool-work commute. 

Makes three of us.

want.

I have this same issue 98% of the time. The other 2%, the music is actually super helpful, but more often than not...not so much.

Seriously- WTF with all the dead armadillos? I just got back to KC after a trip down 49 to Louisiana, and I’d never seen so many Armadillos, and never so far north. Dozens of them. Eesh.

At present, I agree. Not saying it isn’t already, but if I was Tesla (or whoever) making EVs my priority would be making batteries better, cheaper, and faster.

Man...I’m sorry, and this is an all-too-common refrain. If something doesn’t give there won’t be any competent techs left. At some point, the consumer is going to stop paying exorbitant amounts of money for people lacking the skill set to do the job properly to replace parts until they eventually get the right one.…

This. If Tesla made a car at the same price point as a Prius, they’d be selling the crap out of them. 

I’m no expert, but the numbers seem to bear out that flat rate is pushing a lot of people out and spooking a lot of people from starting a service tech career at all. I can see how flat rate made sense at one point, but the going deal used to be half of shop rate went to the tech, too, and that doesn’t seem to be the…

I’d love an FJ but can’t get past the fuel economy. Oof. 

This. I’ve been doing some research lately on service drive employee retention and this is and has been the biggest sticking point for decades, it seems. 

Dude...yes. AWESOME.

All sunshine, all the time. :)

Soooo...you gonna DD POStal now that you’re back?

Agreed, although I will say it’s sometimes nice when you’re the one onstage and someone gets good video of it you can laugh or whatever at later.