I’ll take your word for it that you legitimately need a larger vehicle. That said, I’ve never understood the American penchant for gloating about wasting money.

Is it because you think a lot of the market segment looks similar?

Family vehicles become uncool, and the industry responds with newer, bigger, shittier vehicles to make people feel like they’re not buying a family vehicle when they opt for the more expensive new trend.

I don’t know the details of Ghosn’s case, but I will say this: Japan has a 99.9% conviction rate. Their justice system has flaws that I can’t quite support. When he says it’s a rigged justice system, he’s not wrong. Getting a fair trial, by American standards at least, is impossible in Japan.

Get Rowan Atkinson playing Mr. Bean playing Carlos Ghosn and I am 120% in.

Rowan Atkinson definitely needs to play him in the inevitable Netflix movie about all this shit.

It’s not my argument - just what happened. The bikes were already slated to be banned anyway - the incident just hastened the process.  As for physics, if you don’t agree, that’s your choice. However, physics doesn’t change from country to country - it is what it is.

This is one of several, I am not the bureau of bicycle-pedestrian casualty statistics. I found this looking for the event from a few years ago when I cyclist hit a homeless person and killed him. I haven’t killed anyone, but a woman stepped in front of me outside of a cross walk while I was riding my (pedal) bike and…

E-scooter companies dropped their scooters in SF immediately after I tore and ACL and was relegated to crutches. I got hit repeatedly on the sidewalks by numbnuts on scooters. They are dangerous to others too.

Not always. Here in Australia, so-called ‘monkey bikes’ (small electric motorbikes) were banned in my state after a woman was killed after an unlicensed moron sped through a shopping centre carpark and hit her as she was exiting the building.  You might think they are light, physics says otherwise.

On the one hand, to heck with Cuomo in general.

Recklessly driven bicycles in NYC are a menace, delivery people AND arrogant Tour de France wannabees alike. The danger to pedestrians posed by heavier, faster electric bikes is real and needs to be carefully regulated.

By public I mean pedestrians. Even a regular bike at 10 mph can seriously injure pedestrians. Ebikes are heavier and faster than regular bikes so the threat to pedestrians is greater, especially if they’re not at least following traffic safety laws.

Regulating them as mopeds sounds exactly how it should be handled. Delivery e-bikes zip around significantly faster than other bikes and nowadays, they’re the ones riding the wrong way on a one-way street and skipping other traffic laws.

Meetings that three or four people would once have traveled to attend in person, might now only have one Nissan representative, the sources said, while other gatherings and dinners have been canceled altogether or replaced by video-conferencing.

What did I just read?

Fuck that noise too. Nobody asked for buttons to go away, and cars are not better off without them.

Pictured: Nissan board meeting

“Luckily for me, a cat parent, my feline child would never accompany me to a dealership if I ever went to one...”

I think the problem here is that you can’t actually market this thing to people who don’t know about cars. There’s no wool-pulling. It’s not like the Urus (I finally have an excuse to drive a Lambo!) or some heritage-laden tweedmobile (Careful with the Jag, darling).

Lots of car names became famous to normies for…