Even traditional automakers have responded to market conditions with pricing changes, but they have been more masked by making “instant rebates” and discount financing options while the base prices of their cars remains constant. Its a minor difference really, but a pretty big one to the finance-ignorant masses.

Isn’t that what St. Louis malls are for? During Covid and at least a while after, Fords were stacked up at the mostly closed Mills Mall.

I think both sides of that argument are full of shit. All cops are not bad. There are a very, very few cops who not only don’t perpetrate crimes themselves but who hold other cops accountable when they commit crimes. You don’t often hear much about them because they tend to get drummed out of the job early on, long…

I don’t get the last paragraph. Are we supposed to feel differently because he’s good at golf?

No amount of athletic prowess excuses breaking laws and putting anyone in danger of very serious injury for your convenience.

Louisville resident here. They need to make an example of this guy. He was weaving in and out of traffic and driving like an asshole on a bridge that just barely supports 2 lanes of traffic in both directions. This has become standard behavior for people who don’t want to pay for the toll bridge and can’t manage their…

Or people could actually take the extra 2 seconds and stop.

I don’t know if it was Tesla getting them to adopt NACS as much as it was just the automakers recognizing that the NACS standard is better than CCS.

It doesn’t help that the US has an entire political party dedicating a huge portion of their identity to eliminating EVs, creating a complex and confusing regulatory environment for OEMs.

That’s exactly what they are doing, and it’s extremely misleading.

I think they are basically taking all their EV related revenue minus EV spend and simply dividing it by the number of EVs sold. There is no real amortizing, depreciating, or any other sort of cost spreading major expenses like R&D, NRE, Capex, materials, labor, etc that are often substantial at during early phases of…

Imagine any kid wanting to get away from THAT loving, rational dad. 

I’m reasonably sure most people can pick up on the cynicism and sarcasm of my post. Yes I’m a car guy but I also get around 95% of the time as a pedestrian in a big city. I can walk faster than traffic here, stop in at a quick mart and grab some necessesities on my way and come back out and still see the cars that I’ve…

I’ve been watching my city rethink roads the last couple years and I gotta say, the amount of non-car infrastructure getting added is wonderful.

Considering how human warehouse workers at Amazon are literally wearing out their joints and cannot last more than 5 years working full time, the correct decision in these labor intensive nearly mindless environments is to use automation wherever possible - these tasks perfectly suited for automation. 

I think what you’re overlooking is that if you can train a robot to do THIS task autonomous (note the word autonomous) then you can also train him for task B and C and D and E. In short ; in almost every place where repetitive actions are performed by a human, this robot could do the same. But then 24/7/365. And…

I can’t star this enough.

I’m trying to find an acceptable way that this could have been handled differently. Wait at the bottom hoping the ATV driver doesn’t run over anyone on the way down? Deploy spike strips, with probably similar results? Stand at the side of the road and shout at the ATV driver to stop, as he blows by and drives away?…

A lot of ATV and dirt bikers illegally ride on hiking/biking singletrack trails in my area. And I hope every single one of these bastards suffer the same fate, whether it’s caused by cops or not.

So for only the price of ~7 baltimore bridges, we get a plane that will keep a dozen or so rich and powerful people alive for a few hours longer than the rest of us proles. Will they land on a bomb-proof runway outside of vault 114?