+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?

At least one of the “rovers” is like the size of a softball. So pictures sure, but not going to do much in terms of bumping the lander

That’s just a wonderful strawman you’ve set up there.

So you’re saying that not including suggested baselines on the caffeine label relieves a customer of all responsibility when they go drink over a half gallon of the stuff because they can’t be bothered to consider how much caffeine it is?

Blaming a customer for failing to demonstrate basic personal responsibility is most certainly ok.

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

I get the water part, but in what world are the great lakes “moderate climate”?

Counterpoint: If a beverage has a standard/generic beverage name but a descriptor like “charged” added to the name, maybe take two seconds to figure out WTF that “charged” means before drinking 2.5 of them in one sitting. Darwinism at work. 

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. 

Maybe I’m living in a cave, but for the most part none of those really feel like high-dollar actors, at least not on the Marvel scale.

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.