4th gear: Both of them would’ve been done and dusted long ago if not for the fact that Republicans can’t be bothered to lift a finger to help America and two Senate Democrats are using the occasion to go on extended ego trips.

I think it is a bigger issue than that. It isn’t just property values. It is also the fact that we closed our public mental health hospitals and didn’t replace them with community-based in-patient clinics that were promised. We also made it almost impossible to involuntarily commit mentally ill people. So they live on…

I was in Silicon Valley from ‘87 to ‘91. CA is no longer the best state for much, other than the excellent weather.  I was in Palo Alto a couple years ago and was shocked to see decrepit “RVs” (I use that term loosely, many were old vans or trucks) lining El Camino Real that people were sleeping in.  One of the…

The Buick engine is fine right until you overheat it, which is quite easy to do since the cooling system is crap.  You overheat it and then you start blowing head gaskets and you are into major rebuild costs.  In exchange, you get an engine that has low horsepower and poor fuel economy.

The answer for any Range Rover at any price is a great big NOPE.  

They don’t just look stupid.

3-wheel motorcycles are breathtakingly stupid from the get-go (if you want a motorcycle, then get a real one; if you don’t want a real motorcycle, get a car), so I’m OK with this.

No, they don’t.

I got the impression that Husqvarna were not known for reliability.  Is that true?

Beat me to it.  900cc is a middleweight?  

Exactly.

The manufacturer and the dealer organization is a limited group, accessing the data from a limited number of systems, which can be controlled and audited.

I support right to repair, but the timeline provided for in this law was clearly problematic. Subaru did the only reasonable thing.

That would have serious privacy implications.

Hertz seems like a regular company, though its eagerness to tie up with Tesla and Uber is thirsty at best.

Yup, you are looking for a reason to get offended. And you didn’t look up the definition of black humor. Here it is:

Thanks for proving my point: “Everyone seems to be looking for a reason to get offended these days.”

I guess I’m evil, because I think it is a pretty funny joke.

How much will Hertz charge if you don’t return it will a fully charged battery?

Local governments in the US routinely underinvest in maintenance. Maintenance isn’t sexy. You don’t get many press conferences and photo ops announcing funds spent to maintain infrastructure. And maintaining infrastructure often results in inconvenience to commuters (e.g., delays due to track maintenance).