+1, when i’ve sold vehicles via cashiers check, I have requested to actually meet at the bank and accompany the buyer when they’re getting the check and offered to do the same when I’m paying via cashiers check.

Came here to say exactly this, 75% of new car buyers are stuck picking from the dealer spec on the lot because these days if you ask a dealer to place a custom order, most of them will respond similarly to if you had asked to sleep with their wife. 

So instead, they spend the same money for a week at a Caribbean resort with the A/C turned to 11, heated and cooled pools, entertainment, excursions every which way, and of course an airplane ride each way. Carbon emissions: probably about the same.

+1, we also need to adjust his reported range figures for the fact that you know there were 0.00000 watts of power used for turn signals during the miles reported. 

Makes sense, I’m still surprised how many manufacturers do not seem to pass that discount on to the customer. At least on PHEV leases a few months ago, Jeep seemed to be in the minority with their policy of applying the credit to the lease.

However, most EVs still can get the $7500 credit if they are leased, and customers get this discount regardless of their filing status.

The age verification thing seems like if could be useful if they added the one extra capability of scanning the ID. Presumably a computer could scan the barcode to confirm it’s a legit ID and also compare the photo to the person?

I was going to say the same, I think there might be some selection bias in the sample. Particularly among men, I could easily believe a trend where the guys who make more are more proud and more likely to opt into the survey and the entry level guys might be less willing to disclose. Meanwhile women generally aren’t…

Is it just me, or in the last image does the front of the hill look weirdly photoshopped? Like on the right side a bunch of oddly straight lines or perfectly circular lines for what’s supposed to be just a pile of dirt? Wonder if someone had some OSHA violations they didn’t want showing up on the news?

“It speeds up the process at entry and speeds up the process at the checkout,” Costco’s finance chief Richard Galanti told CNN

Given that he was bringing it to auction off, I’m guessing it was in the bag, not being worn. 

I mean to be fair, when describing he wants something interesting he said “I don’t want a camry” kind of implying “I know a camry checks all the functional boxes but I want more interesting” and most of these would be at least as functional as a Camry on this front. 

Surely they must have been doing a significant amount of preemptive stopping to top off for partial charges. The article said they stopped “every one to two hours” to charge. And if they charged 12 times + the initial charge, it would be right about 100 traveled miles per charge.

I would be curious to see data on carbon impact of a cruise ship versus air travel per person. I’m sure they burn a ton of fuel, but you get to split it between 5000 people versus an airplane that also uses tons of fuel and only splits it between a couple hundred people.

While you make valid considerations conceptually, I’m not seeing any specifics to confirm either direction.

Wait a minute, we have Jack in the Box in Colorado? How have I never seen one, guess I know what I’m getting for lunch this weekend. 

10000% disagree, this looks like some janky aftermarket fob someone bought on wish.com  for their 14 year old Front-wheel-drive coupe with a giant spoiler and oversized chrome rims. 

Same boat here. Did the research and realized I could spend 10k to get the Datsun engine to ~200HP and basically be capped out unless I add forced induction, or I could spend less than half of that and have a V8 with easily that much power and the option to cheaply tune it up to 300-400 if desired without needing…

This is such a non-story

That’s not true at all, people give plenty of attention to the Cyber truck’s terrible design, build quality and inability to handle a little snow :)