Everything you say is true, but one fact also looms in the background.

I am going to validate what you said about Fiats. I currently own and drive a 2015 500 Pop (base model, manual) and really have not had any issues with it, and currently at 87K and going strong. Basic maintenance done regularly, and the one recall for a clutch spring done early (not an issue on mine, just replaced it…

Lots of good arguments for both sides, and that in an of itself is healthy.

Ha, 200K miles? Psheesh. Mine (black and tan 96) has 240K, and yeah, the airbag light would be blinking if it hadn’t burned out. But it runs like a top, and when it does have any issues, repairs and parts are cheap and plentiful and easy.

Some executive or middle manager made a bad call, I think.

The issue with owning one of these now is that a lot - and I mean a whole lot - of parts for the “luxury” items are no longer being made.

What Musk seems oblivious to is that Xi doesn’t care how popular Musk is, how rich he is, and how powerful Xi and the Party really are.

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Seems to me that we might be better off just spending the money we spend on developing autonomy on creating a working transporter like in Star Trek. Both seem about as likely as the other, at this point.

Yeah, that seems to make all this suspect, really. More likely going to be insurance fraud, as the value of the bikes are likely inflated by insurance value versus actual value to a buyer right now. A coworker is selling his Harley and is getting very little for what is an excellent one. Insurance pays out based on…

Interesting to contemplate if China will become the leader in automotive or not.

The real problem: a city owns the ship.

Yeah, and Henry Ford just wanted to spare horses from having to pull wagons for humans.

So true that there is a huge disparity on how operators run the grids locally. California has issues, so why there is not a public outcry and demand for change is beyond me, especially in a state that seems to want to be the leader of the eco-movement. But for all the issues with the California grid, and with others,…

I don’t fly a lot, but the Atlanta and Charlotte airports both have one thing that makes using them as a hub worth the layover.

This, a thousand times over.

JFC dude, this is a lumbar support already designed and engineered that they pulled out. And then tried to justify it by saying it does not get used. Because they put an expensive sensor in the seat to track all that.

Where I get stuck at is what is fair to pay a person?

Well, it seems that the tech giants won the war. We always thought that Big Brother was the government, but in reality it was the corporate Overlords trying to read our minds and manipulate us to do their bidding.

I think you have summed up how many feel about this.