I agree that keeping the X-universe separate from the MCU would be better for all involved. However, I don’t trust the suits to share that vision.

It depends on the car. My tC has been the most unreliable car I’ve owned since new. The engine burns oil like gas (very common issue on all the 1AZ engines), the transmission was total junk and crapped out (another common issue - all of Toyota’s manual trannies from the mid-00s were made of glass - the slightly used…

Neato! I’ve never heard of such a thing.

The sad part is, many cities such as my hometown of Indianapolis used to have rather extensive electrified train systems, but they died out as car ownership grew:

Wow, that thing is adorbs. I’m picturing it being driving by one guy surrounded by dogs in the cabin.

Indeed, it spans generations. I don’t understand why so many people keep blaming any relatively new social norm that they find insulting solely on millenials.

Yeah, that could be part of the verification process. However, you’d still need something else (like facial recognition) to make sure it’s the passenger and not the driver operating the touch screen.

I don’t know if I agree with using a wheel/ball as you’d still have to see the screen to tell what you’re pointing at (right?). But I agree touchscreens should be inaccessible by the driver while the car is in motion or in gear. I personally think anything should be controllable with either a tactile…

I think auto manufacturers need to figure out a way to make these things only accessible by the passenger. I’m sure that’s no easy task, but I know a lot of newer smart phones can tell when you’re looking at the screen. Perhaps some variation of that technology could work.

I’ve got Sync 3 and not too much is disabled while driving. I can’t read texts on the screen (good thing), but that’s about it. So, apparently Ford has walked that design philosophy back to some extent.

Heller’s days are probably numbered. No one likes him on either side. Righties think he’s too moderate and he’ll probably face a touch primary challenge from a tea party candidate (and that candidate would stand a good chance of beating Heller, as the remaining conservatives in this state seem to of the Tea Party…

I’ll have to check for another source. That’s not the way I read it.
“...he plans to introduce a bill that, starting in 2040, would allow the state’s motor vehicles department to register only “clean” vehicles that emit no carbon dioxide, such as battery-electric or hydrogen fuel-cell cars.”

That sounds like a good idea.

Las Vegas/Nevada uses almost zero net water from the Colorado River. We have a massive system of aquaducts that run underneath the city. All rainwater that hits the streets, along with almost all water that goes down any of the drains is collected at a substation, treated, and sent back to Lake Mead. This is done out…

If you take California, you have to take the rest of the west (including my current home state of Nevada) with you. I don’t want to be stuck in some red-state hellscape that the U.S. would become if one or more of the more liberal states were excised.

Nevadan here. I could just as easily say “when will we chop off The South/Texas/whatever red state I don’t like at the moment?”.

I agree with the sentiment of this bill (although I love my ICE cars, I agree that EVs are the future), but it’s backwards. A total ban on ICE registrations before even implementing a ban on purchasing ICE vehicles? That’s nuts. And no way in hell could you straight up ban all ICE vehicles starting in 2040 in…

This took me longer than I’d like to admit before I got it.

I doubt this proposal will go anywhere. It’s too far reaching too soon, even for California. Implementing a total ban on ICE registrations before implementing a total ban on simply buying new ICE cars is backwards. Also, there are far too many people in California who a) depend on their old/cheap cars to survive b)…

Do you work at a body shop?