Along with Martin, Dutch Gunderson, Lana and Sally Decker's discussions

“Gig Cab”? “Urban Overlander”, since so many sleep in their cars.?

Get greedy. For all these young pukes, we might as well be Boomers or something.

Nice. Everything else is secondary.

It’s basically a bunch of gypsy cabs using an app. Anyone suggesting otherwise is lying.

The only unanswered question that matters... Read more

Not to go off on a tangent, but can we stop using the term “ridesharing”? That isn’t what Uber or Lyft are. It is a marketing term they use to try and make it not sound like what they are, taxi services circumventing taxi regulations.
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With that attitude, yes. Read more

Thanks. Almost makes up for the joint pain and colonoscopy...

AHIP...

I didn’t vote for him...

Something is off with the proportions. Like the builder found a Lotus 7 nose at an estate sale and decided to build a car around it. Read more

Earwaxio!

parts sitting in the back of a factory aren’t productive Read more

Kaizen is a great philosophy, and JIT all works well when your suppliers are in the same region as you, or at least in the same country. Read more

Funny how something that has been around for more than 20 years is still considered in vogue. JIT was the shiny object and Kaizen was just popping up on business school radars.
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I seem to vaguely remember watching as a kid a segment on CBS In The News during Saturday morning cartoons some time in the mid 70s reporting that rectangular headlights had been approved by the feds. Read more

I remember JIT was all the rage in business classes when I was in college. Another example of the problem is the knock-on effects of Ever Given being stuck in the Suez Canal for a week and gumming up shipping.

Because they were all being pestered about producing ventilators?

Drivers who cede the right of way when they shouldn’t. Thanks for stopping short to let me turn left in front of you, except THERE IS NO ONE BEHIND YOU. Thanks for stopping in the traffic circle to let the car in, except I’M BEHIND YOU AND ALMOST RAN INTO THE BACK OF YOU. Read more

Please note, direct sales fetishists, that this is the manufacturer incentivizing the dealers to do this. What exactly makes you think predatory lending practices will magically end if dealers disappear tomorrow? Or that manufacturers will cut prices and leave money on the table just because they cut out your hated… Read more