but you didn’t pay for the value that Tesla provides with the extra juice.

You buy on value, not on manufacturing cost.

Oooo, I see a new Tesla marketing opportunity here: “Sometimes you want to hold your phone while you talk on it. When you drive a Tesla, we’ll take over the handsfree duty.”

And within ten minutes of turning that on, we’ll be seeing videos of douchebags getting blowjobs while the car drives itself into the side of the road.

on the other hand, Musk doesn’t own marketing liability on this matter:

mmmmmmmmm....however, a chocolote-LINED coffeepot....mmmmmmm...

There is a chasm of misunderstanding between consumer douchebag perception of Tesla’s Autopilot, and the actual capabilities of this system.

Tesla has adopted Apple’s marketing strategy of overselling simple features.

Yelling at you? Bullshit. Car pulls over and stops.

Agreed. The military spends millions of dollars training pilots, and they’re still obligated to pay attention. We spend tens of dollars buying a license that says the state won’t arrest us if we drive a car on the public roads, and those people are expected to do exactly what you say? Suddenly put attention to a…

1955: “Sit in the back of the bus for now, while you work to change the system. The system, as is, requires you to do that or else the innocent bus driver loses his job. Don’t be That Woman.”

I’m not the one living in the bubble.

If anything, stagnant incomes and ever increasing cost of buying/owning a car and buying/renting somewhere to live and student loans and simple fucking health insurance and every other mechanism Big Business uses to get between people and their money killed it.

This just nails down that school football, especially in small towns (and all of Texas), is a cult—just like all religions are cults. And school football is a cult right up there in intensity and dedication with the Catholic church and those various other cults we hear about in the news.

What does your mom being dead now have to do with what your mommy told you when you were a child, about how perfect you and your world were by definition?

I’m not suggesting it, I’m asserting it—your personal fantasies notwithstanding.

trust me, if you’ve thought of something it’s guaranteed someone else came up with it first:

You live a very, very sheltered life.

a) it’s “all right,” not “alright”

sigh. It’s a little late to be tossing around the idea of a convertible version, Honda. That talk needed to start the moment the engineering guys pulled out the clean sheet of paper 10 years ago.