Oh please, the vast majority of these SUVs are owned by families with 2 or less children while never towing and leaving the pavement.

Comparing mixed driving to SUV highway?

The inevitable disaster awaiting the big 3 will be a textbook example of business shortsightedness, it’s going to be fun to watch and painful for a great deal of people. 

The whole diesel reliability sure as hell doesn’t apply to the last decade. And you are right, when they do fail, as they do often now, the price to fix is insane.

While the car loan bubble grows and grows. It’s going to be a shit show once this bubble burst and a hell of a time to buy a car.

Not if the price is only $1-2k less than new, which at 1 year and 10k miles is most certainly the case. Account for the better interest rate, the new car is almost always a better decision in this case.

Engine braking via four tires vs two?

More like boomers thought crazy debt was OK, no wonder our country is Trillions in debt.

Good riddance. On the bright side, old geezer’s Hogs will soon be collectors...that no one wants.

You made a good decision in buying reliable transportation. In no way is buying a 4x4, seems your looking for a brodozer, to drive 300 miles per week a good decision. Nor is buying a brodozer going to make you seem more cool or fun, more douchey maybe.

Except in an airplane the pilot is there to take over if a reason, like a mechanical problem, arises. In a Tesla the driver must maintain attention to prevent the vehicle from crashing on it’s own.

New layout is much better. Adds a short straight to set up a pass going into turn 8. The previous tight section, while more challenging, would have been a slow single file procession.

Not just low to moderate skilled labor, IBM’s Watson can develop cancer treatments for patients on par with a doctor.

And when there isn’t another one?

Job growth in those areas cannot support our growing population.

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And cost. Get EVs that are comparable to current vehicles in the $20-25K range and we’ll see much faster adoption.

Driver less cars in mass use are decades away, if ever.

In the defense of Knoxville drivers, the rain moved in during rush hour. Roads that were dry became ice by the time people made it to work. At 6:00 am the roads were dry, by 8 they were icing.

His buyout didn’t change at the end of the season. He was going to be owed 2.5M for each remaining year on his contract regardless.