There are full size trucks that have great rides. Often better than luxury cars. But I don’t think someone would objectively say that a Tacoma rides better or is a better vehicle to drive on the highway than a ridgeline. It’s just not close. I’ve spent plenty of time in my parents 2020 Tacoma and I daily a 4Runner…

Every judge will toss the case of the cop only saw the light out and didn't verify the driver under current Pennsylvania law that is driver liability. No driver ID, no fine.  

I don’t think it’ll take off.

The counter weight should be mid arm on the projectile side then move out at release. It would be easier to balance. And it’ll slow the rotational assembly when released.

I agree that the price is a problem. But a pilot is $40k. How is Honda going to sell a Pilot with a bed for $25k? IMO is a great product that’ll never sell because it’s built for what the consumers mostly do. Not what they want to do. It just lacks the image of being a real truck more than the capability of moving…

It’s perfect for many because it drives like a car and acts like car. For truck buyers who use them like a car - it’s a better car. It’s much nicer to drive empty on the highway than a Tacoma. But if you need to go off road, tow, or haul much, the taco is the easy choice. Kinda like 4Runner vs Highlander. Same size.…

Ever been to court? Good luck. Cops don’t show half the time when subpoenad for DUI trials. They’ll never show up for these. And even if they did - how would they prove who was driving? Memory from a year ago? Defense attorneys will make a killing on these cases because they’ll be so easy.

They’re all moving violations. It’s not illegal to have a car with a light out. It's illegal to drive a car on a public road with the light out. The driver violates the law, not the owner. 

It’s not illegal to own a car with a light out in any state I’m aware of. It’s only illegal operate a vehicle on the public roads with a light out. It’s the driver who’s violating the law by operating on the public roads, not the owner. That’s a fundamental difference between a moving violation and the non-moving…

Yep. My buddy was a highway patrolman in Wyoming. He said one morning outside of Casper he pulled a guy over going 95mph and let him off with a warning because he was the first car of the day he’d clocked under 100. Going under the speed limit in rural western states like Utah IS suspicious.

How do they intend to prove who was driving? Or even prove the violation? 

People buy trucks for either doing truck things or probably more often for the image of doing truck things. If it can’t do truck things it won’t have the image of doing truck things. See the Honda Ridgeline for example. It’s the perfect trucklet for people who don’t do truck things but it doesn’t meet the image…

The market is not moving away from trucks and SUVs. Not even close. All of the fastest selling new cars by days on the lot are SUVs and vans except the Corvette. By volume cars make up about 25% of the new car market.

I don’t think full size trucks are included in the sample set. It’s data from one car listing website (and not among the most popular). The detail says that they excluded HD vehicles. I don’t know if that is all full size trucks or not. But given that only one midsize truck shows up and the truck market is probably…

It’s a concern of anyone wants to use a truck for truck stuff - towing and hauling. If you're not doing those things, is the truck the right form factor? If an EV minivan only had seating for 3, that's probably a problem. 

Full size box trailers will be 100 miles or less. Just the wind drag is about 2kwh/mile. So you can figure from there that it won't go far with a big trailer. 

This! They’ll ignore or turn it off. Like California’s “known to cause cancer” that’s on everything including cars. The overuse results in noise with no valuable valuable signal.

Wait. You mean there’s like a market for stocks. Would you call that a “stock exchange”?

Bankruptcy does not discharge restitution. 

Haha - right on. A few more: