the article explicity states that he did this after his attempt at selling on the internet failed to produce a buyer.

thanks!   i’m mostly replying to this so I can find it once I’m home and out from behind the work firewall.   I’ve been looking for an update on this, but I’m no good navigating court records.   thanks again!!

I appreciate this perspective, and normally I would be the first to grant benefit of the doubt, especially since this seems to be a wise, future-proofing engineering decision.

I was surprised at the lack of quality of the supposedly superior WeatherTech stuff. I was gifted a set and was immediately underwhelmed at how thin (and NOT rubbery / flexible) it was.  And less than a year later, they curled and started tripping my passengers as they got in.

i’m no lawyer, but I have watched several youtube videos by lawyers - pretty sure including both in the lawsuit is sound legal strategy. if they only sued the driver and not the owner, the driver’s legal defense would (possibly quite effectively) shift some of the blame onto the owner, lessening his culpability. by…

Reading that new price, just over $30k, my brain said “hey, that’s not a bad price for a car!” but then I remembered we’re talking about a tesla here, and I suddenly realized I wouldn’t buy a tesla for ANY amount of money. If someone gave me one, I’d sell it to the person I like the least.

IF I’m going to get an EV next, I’m most excited about a Polestar.  But I need 2 things first:  A chicagoland dealership, and for them to FIX THE STUPID CUP HOLDERS.

I remember in the early-90s carrying around a container of liquid lead additive to add each time I fueled up my ‘71 Maverick since unleaded was all you could find at the pump by then.  

I’d have to be pretty desperate to flirt with insurance fraud.

I guess I’m old, because I didn’t need the last paragraph to explain to me why it’s called “William Shatner’s Seat” - it was obvious as soon as I read it.

I’m so sick of replying to pointless comments.

I saw another article that said he told his wife to hide in the closet before heading out the front door with his loaded shotgun.  Yeah, I can see him being totally jacked: THIS IS MY MOMENT, THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN PREPARING FOR!   dumbass.  I just wish Kaylin didn’t have to die for him to learn his stupid lesson.

I think guns have no place in our society and we’d all be better off without them, but even I know that proper gun safety STARTS with treating every gun like it’s loaded.

for purposes of driving on the road, I couldn’t agree more - but a lockout preventing moving the truck if the bed is up might be problematic on site when you need to move the truck with the bed up to fully dump the load.  I dunno, maybe a governor on there to block going >10mph or something.

Maybe I shouldn’t be, but I’m perpetually impressed that security never mistakes my empty water bottle (that I’m going to refill in the terminal after I’m through security) with a full one.   Can an empty -vs- full bottles be identified via x-ray?  I didn’t think so, but neither do I have a clue what kind of tech and…

i love this unapologetic take.  take your star.

the Polestar is the only EV that has me excited to get one - but no dealerships around Chicago.  The more I look at the Polestar the better I like it, but that was before this Chinese buyout.   Oh, that and the interior console layout - I will NOT buy one until they fix that waste of space - I assume it’s on their…

I enjoy imagining what a big deal this was for the cops - the organizing and planning and back patting when they were done. I bet many (most?) don’t understand this is the type of thing they’re expected to do in their public service role.

i’m ashamed to say my WRX hit triple digits on that exact stretch of 25, going in the same direction. that road makes it so very tempting. i was a lot younger and stupider then. i often think back to how easily anything could have gone wrong and just shake my head.

and yet, even professional, top-tier engineers ultimately can’t help themselves. LOL.

indeed, RIP Ingenuity.