Good for California.

The goal should be to make sure people don’t feel like they can go out and knowingly infect others. I understand where you’re coming from, too, and if this wasn’t a disease with the kind of mortality rate HIV still has attached to it, with the added stigma that comes with it I’d be easier to convince.

If there’s reason to believe he didn’t disclose, as this case purports to have tried to prove - he obviously fucked up *somehow* and wasn’t clear enough about it to make the other person absolutely informed. Now, if the other person is straight up lying about him not disclosing that fact, that’s a whole other…

Yeah, I... have a hard time seeing this as good news. HIV isn’t the death sentence it once was, but it sure as hell isn’t like a case of the clap. I’m also not sure about the sentence being the right one, but I think what he did was incredibly irresponsible and could see arguments swaying me in either direction as to…

The ridicule and humor when he was running for office came from the wrong places, though. They came only from the left, and boosted his support with the “I don’t want to think about politics but I like the cut of his gold-plated jib!” crowd. It wasn’t the humor that helped him in any way, it was the fact that the…

We do the only thing we can do, we keep fighting and laugh at him while we do it. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Haha, thanks. The Santa Fe was the *only* CUV that wasn’t fatally flawed in technology, looks, or interior size. We could have lived with a little less space behind the rear seats, but are definitely not complaining about what we got.

Congrats on the raffle win, and I will admit that’s a slightly better interior than I remembered seeing. I may have been thinking of the Mini, but I still can’t say I’m a fan of the 500's dash. The single giant round display just strikes me as more motorcycle than car, and I’m not sure I could get used to that. But…

Dammit, Kinja. I just took an hour to expound upon my thoughts about wagons in an actual post nobody would see instead of a comment, and the draft disappeared. D’oh. First time I ever tried it, too.

What I’d really love to see is the return of the Proper American Station Wagon. None of this euro stuff like the Audis, or VWs or even the pre-CUV Subarus. But real, proper wagons low enough to *reach* the rack on top, and long enough to have room for four rows of passengers even though you’re only using three at most…

Sure, but then you’re driving a Fiat 500. ;)

If it’s a single cab, you *know* it’s a work truck.

SUVs took off because people honestly like feeling that they’re getting a lot of something for what they spend, they were considered safer vehicles in accidents and that they were functionally a minivan that dad could drive without feeling like he was “whipped”.

I honestly think a lot of men still buy trucks because the wife won’t let them buy a sports car, and a truck is considered the “manly” vehicle that’s still an option.

What happens on weekends or holidays, or if there are conflicting items in schedules? We might see a reduction in injuries while in cars, but we might well wind up with more injuries by stabbing *over* cars.

Elon Musk says a lot of things that need to be taken with a rather substantial chunk of salt, but he’s probably not far off with that estimate. I give it 2-3 until they’re fully road legal.

What, two? Or is it three now, with something like two million miles driven? And IIRC, at least one of those was caused by an outside cause - like the backup human driver screwing up, or someone hit the car from outside.

I’m a huge skeptic about autonomous vehicles as the future, but I honestly give it a pretty close to 100% chance that we’ll see fully autonomous capabilities by 2025, if not sooner. We’re really pretty close now, and all the components that make autonomous vehicles better are being improved upon at a rapid pace when…

I can’t speak for all cars, but some cars like my 2017 Santa Fe Sport can actually be lobotomized if necessary without losing too much. I think my biggest loss if I somehow had to replace the touchscreen and head unit would be the 360 degree parking cameras, as everything else integrated through the screen still has…

This is my primary concern too. Hell, I’m worried that even 6 or 8 years from now all of the bluetooth integration, “infotainment systems”, and sensors for emergency braking, active cruise control, etc. for today’s cars will be obsolete and hard to service.