You’re completely ignoring bond funding like Prop 1B the 2006 $20 BILLION bond measure. The state regularly shorts capital projects until these additional funds show up, claiming poverty. It’s a shell game performed by con artists/special interests/politicians. No one trusts them, and rightly so. By your reasoning,…

That’s going to be tough. The Smug Driver demographic is, like, 40% of the market, followed by third car owners (30%), software engineers(15%), and gradeschool teachers (5%).

Ha! that would require politicians put down the crack pipe and stop spending. That’s possible in Scandinavia because it’s full of reasonable people. We live in the US.

tell that to Governor Moonbeam and the asshats in Sacramento.

errm, California just initiated a recession on November 1st with their new gas taxes. Of course, these new billions in taxes are supposed to repair roads and bridges over the next 10 years (as Sacramento always promises) but that money just goes into the general fund/slush fund.

As if that mattered. It’s California, duh. More regulations, more taxes is the path to utopia.

Ironically, no Diesels were involved in these specific recalls....

so THAT’S what happened.....

Did you read the article? There is nothing “production” about it--hence irony. They basically took out all the crap we complain about and inserted decent mechanicals so it still looks like a lame CUV with upgraded wheels and a wing. In reality, racecar.

Not only am I not a genius, I can’t take credit for this idea, which is essentially Newton’s law of motion for businesses. Billions of VC dollars have been spent to disrupt the existing economy of ICE vehicles and still, EV/autonomous vehicle market share is a rounding error. Momentum in this market is based purely on…

Yeah, this is a unicorn. This is a CH-R as much as NASCAR models are production sedans/”stock” cars.

In this current political environment, “Mandate” is a pretty toxic concept, regardless of who is mandating.

Nope. With ze Germans all-in in the next 3 years with electric/self-driving vehicles, at least one US auto manufacturer (or FIAT) will go a different route, and that’s all it will take to avoid concensus. Self-driving cars will need V2V after it’s proven their own software will be inadequate. But without an…

Apparently you’re unfamiliar with the auto industry--this isn’t smart phones. No one company will begin “dominating”.

Would ony work in communist/fascist countries like Russia, North Korea and Berkeley.

The extra 4,500 hipsters are all their software people, wearing clothes that are too small, working at stand-up work stations in Fremont.

Your point is exactly why auton-o-cars won’t work. The Overlords will insist EVERYONE go 25--as slow as the slowest driver. Freedom-loving drivers will simply bypass said 25 mph cluster train, extending the Cluster commute 2 minutes every time that occurs. Result: Freedom commute 25 minutes, Cluster commute 48…

Similar: traffic merging....MERGING onto Sunset Blvd eastbound. No stop sign. No yield sign. 1 out of 5 drivers will STOP until all traffic has cleared. San Francisco refuses to post a sign to clear this up, probably because 1 in 5 drivers don’t have licenses or can’t read english or are too busy playing pokemon go…

wish I could tell you....

Can everyone stop with the CO2? It’s methane that has the real impact--CO2 is the response of people allergic to science.