“Why don’t you trust me?”

Have you watched the video? He was traveling at a high rate of speed on the sidewalk TOWARD the cop that threw the cooler at him. That fits any reasonable definition of “The officer reasonably believes that the suspect poses an imminent threat of serious physical injury to the officer or to others.”

Your “anyone riding a bicycle or ebike on a sidewalk” isn’t racing toward the cops at a high rate of speed after being caught in drug bust.

The regulation does not consider intent. It just says that the officer can use deadly force if the officer believes there is an eminent threat. IANAL, but it seems like the risk of hitting someone by accident still constitutes an eminent threat.

Uhh...

It’s still cheaper to stream because you don’t have to pay for every service every month. Bad analogy.

How much did you pay for your Tesla, and how much did that differ from the price listed online?

I will agree with everything you said in terms of production tolerances and manufacturing quality, and add that many bread and butter cars were still running carburetors (or throttle body fuel injection) with nests of vacuum hoses for emissions controls and only the most rudimentary electronic controls into the early…

My wife and I were literally talking about him last week, and wonder if he’d make it to his 100th in (IIRC) October. The conversation started with whether The Price is Right theme music was nostalgic for both of us (it is).

Family stuff = “What the f*uck did you buy without discussing it first?”

I totally understand why people don’t like dealers, but direct sales is a classic example of the law of unintended consequences.

Thought I responded to this, but since it isn’t coming up...

I’ve said it repeatedly - here and on other car sites and currently on r/cars on Reddit - SUVs and crossovers are the automotive industry coming full circle. Look at pretty much any regular production car pre-WWII, and you’re looking at an SUV/crossover. Post-WWII to about 20 years ago, when cars were low and wide, was…

I didn’t think so (especially an EV), but I didn’t feel like looking it up and wanted to hold out the weird possibility that Musk insisted that Teslas be able to run in some sort of limp mode.

as far as OTA updates, what 10 year old car are you driving that gets those?

If you are happy with only the content provided by Disney (I assume Disney+) and YouTube Premium, and can do without the content that you can’t get on those platforms, more power to you, but I can guarantee you aren’t getting the same content (even if you discount the channels you didn’t watch), so it isn’t…

I don’t even know what this is in response to.

No, they charge more than cost, and compete each other by being willing to make less profit to close a sale.

Are you not on Earth? Are you on some magic world where all streaming is free and you have access to everything (or are you pirating everything)? Because that is exactly what has happened with cable and what is happening with streaming. I didn’t think this was a particularly hot or spicy take on my part, just…

That is a great theory that is taught in Business School. In reality, cutting out the middle man rarely results in lower prices beyond what it takes for the middle man to be eliminated. In the case with cars, direct sales will result in the elimination of competition within the brand, and the manufacturers will charge…