B6 Ballistic Armor, please. Here’s the first customer for that configuration:

Google busses on 280 driving in the #2 lane when there are 4 lanes. You’re a bus, going 70 while surrounding traffic has to go around you because the Google driver thinks they’re in Hong Kong and have the right of way on the basis of superior mass. The CHP never tickets these idiots.

bill harrah’s Jerrari?

herr.....

Not necessarily. They test new products. A dielectric problem take a while to present symptoms.

True story. About 15 years ago a Canadian company switched their steel vendor from Canuck to Chinese, to make their low end, higher volume castings. This was when everyone decided they had to outsource, too. 6 months after these products were sold, they started to fail in the field. Stumped, the manufacturer went back…

Yeah, but who is willingly going to drive around like you’re in India? If you want to drive a tin can, just buy a car older than 1980—those things have little crash protection. I posit that simplifying those laws (ie mirroring European regulations) is a realistic form of reduced regulation that can deliver a majority…

rebuttal: Airbus.

This will come down to rare earth minerals and the Chinese don’t control all of it. So even 40 million electric cars are not going to offset the 40 coal power plants they built every year for 10 years.

If you look at the crazy crypto-currency “market”, it’s not a surprise Wall Street is willing to throw mountains of cash into a black hole in the hopes this Tesla disrupter will master the market and reach monopoly status. Given how little love GM and the old-world manufacturers are getting (FIAT, anyone?), the Tesla…

Tesla has an interesting take on employment. In the case of the battery plant, they hire a bunch of propeller-heads who don’t know what they don’t know, and trust they will figure it out.

In the late 90's I’m traveling back from Bend OR and stop in Roseburg. Cute town, feels like it’s out of PA. I have time to burn so grab a coffee then drive up a mountain road east of town looking at property. Having traveled about 1500 feet up from the valley floor, I turn around and start driving back down. Not…

What does VW do about keeping its brands from stealing sales from one another? How about offering more differentiating products that you already make for other, more important markets like the UK? Because I’m pretty sure they could sell a sh1t-ton of Caravelles in the US. Just make them in batches of 5,000 like they…

I could see Skoda selling in the US previous generation VWs with the Skoda badge, in order to capture the market for stripped-down, manual cars. It worked in China when they sold previous generation Audi kits assembled in-country for at least 5 years.

Where I live, traffic planners are banking on their hope that if they make traffic bad enough people will magically take public transit to places it doesn’t go. So every year more stop signs and stop lights. They’ve even de-timed the lights, to slow traffic down even more. Bike lanes no one rides in, refusal to…

was expecting yakkity sax....

Part of being a functioning driver involves properly measuring up speed, distance, closing rates--the basics. But there is a large slice of the driving public that is literally unable to do so, and Kia Rio’s actually LOOK like they are 30 feet long to them--they can’t tell 10 feet from 30 feet. Hence the enormous…

You’re wrong--yes it does. Tell me, which consumer focus group demanded the CVT? A transmission so crap the speed of the car, engine and transmission all operate at unrelated speeds. That offense alone relegates the Pius to Vehicular  Hell.

But for such a conservative design, those white curtains scream for attention--all the way back from the 80's. You think they would upgrade to motorized screens similar to those you can order in your BMW. But the demographic must be men over 60.

My california city is full of d-bags who spend their evenings breaking into cars to steal change, breaking off rear view mirrors and defacing other people’s property. Ripping out/destroying EV cables attached to charging cars is just more child’s play. I can imagine these people dumping their warm beer on charging…