The main reason he quit Tesla in 2012, Mr. Rawlinson said, was to care for his ailing mother in Wales. But he added that he had also felt mistreated by Mr. Musk. “I had a mom who needed me, and I had a boss who wasn’t treating me very well,” he said, declining to elaborate on the nature of the mistreatment.

I’ve got 18" wheels as well.  But my sidewall is probably a bit bigger than yours -- 285/65 R18.  No worries about potholes for me.

I’ve been working on projects funded by the .gov for about 15 years (not NHTSA, but a different agency). Based on my experience working with feds, I completely trust NHTSA to eff this up. They will take at least the two years to write the regulations. The regulations will be different than the European regulations…

This is a perfect example of why the CEOs of most companies don’t have access to their own Twitter channel.  If they even have their own Twitter channel, they don’t actually post to it themselves -- that is done by their Communications Department.  Their Comms or PR department actually think before posting, instead of…

Great meme, but mislabeled -- that should read: “Muskaturds” or maybe even “Muskatards”, depending upon who politically incorrect you want to be.

As a former owner of an Integra, I am perplexed by some of the criticism of the new Integra. I bought an ‘87 Integra new and kept it for 13 years and over 135k miles. Mine was a white, 5-door LS with a manual transmission. Here are some of the nonsensical criticisms of the Integra that I’ve read on Jalopnik:

I had an ‘87 Integra that I bought new and kept for 13 years. I loved that car. Mine was a white 5-door with the manual transmission. That little 1.6l motor was a jewel.

Yup. Biden gets to hold his press conference now and claim he did something about the ports, but 10 years from now there will still be no significant change.

I strongly disagree. It is a hollow promise. Better ports won’t happen with our current environmental regulations, our current legal systems, the political climate in our port cities, and the plan’s prevention of automation.

It is an almost 30-year-old Mercedes. You won’t keep it on the road if you just “wipe its nose occasionally”. Things will break on this car and it will be very expensive to fix.

My point is that Biden’s promise of fast action is hollow.  It will take at least 10 years for any significant port expansion.  The permits alone will take multiple years.  The NIMBY lawsuits will take multiple years.  Design and construction will take multiple years.  

The federal permits will take just as much time and money as the NIMBYs.

I really don’t like the headlights.  

The thing is, any port expansion will take an enormous amount of time and money. Simply getting the governmental approvals (from EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, state department of environmental protection, etc.) will take years and costs millions of dollars. Then various activist groups (neighbors, environmental…

Cost of housing is definitely part of the problem. Not all of the problem as inexpensive housing alone still won’t get mentally ill addicts off the street. Admittedly, mentally ill addicts aren’t the entirety of the homeless population (though perhaps they are involved in most of the related crime).

If you feel the problem is that there hasn’t been a vote on the bills, then you should be blaming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Neither Manchin nor Sinema control what bills come to the floor of the House and Senate for a vote.

He didn’t overheat it.

I was a registered Republican for decades. When the Republican Party nominated Trump, I changed my registration to independent (well, unenrolled here in MA, since there is a party called Independent). I despise Trump and I hate that the Republican Party enabled him.

My brother maintained the cooling system on his Disco, but it still got to where it kept blowing head gaskets and he was facing an engine rebuild that would cost more than the truck was worth.