I’m seeing sub-20k Mazda3 hatches in my area again, well-equipped 17' and 18's.

That’s strange, I briefly drove an automatic and thought it was delightful! A manual would have made it perfect, but I drive nothing but backroads. I can see how it would be a bore at more highway speeds.

I think the ideas of “new car” and “warranty” are still pretty powerful. If my family needed a car and I had only $20k to spend, I hope I’d be willing to get a lesser car with a warranty rather than something that feels fancy but risked costing me a lot after I’d already bought it. My recollection is that Hyundai got…

I’m telling you, the choice by big manufacturers to sell “premium” vehicles, almost exclusively, makes them prime targets for disruption. Some somebodies are going to look at flat (or declining) wages into the future and start making money on lower-priced volume. Vinfast might be one of them. Korean cars sucked for a…

I’m still trying to figure out the selling point of this? I’ll assume it’s because brodozer alpha male types are scared of electric vehicles, so this way they can be allowed to buy one and still keep their man card. “IT’S BULLET PROOF!!!”

So uh... Depending on the arrowhead used, compound bows can have better penetration than 9mm bullets or even .22 bullets...

But Johnny Bladerunner, protagonist of the movie Blade Runner, never had to go offroad when he ran all those blades. So why should we expect anything more from the Cybertruck?

I’d never seen the full-frontal view of this thing, and now I kind of wish I had not.  Ugh, terrible.  And to think this will be the last thing many a deer and pedestrian will ever see.

It also moves massively fewer people than light rail would. The only alleged advantage for The Boring Co. is supposedly they can well, bore the tunnel cheaper. Which very much remains to be seen. It would not be any cheaper to put rails into it. It is certainly cheaper to just put a concrete road in a tunnel than a…

Hypeloop is not a typo :)

Don’t forget well deserved.

The most glaring problem is cost. The nearly $53 million this cost the government could have gone into actual transportation infrastructure. Secondly, anyone who has to use a mobility device but isn’t ambulatory enough to stow it in the trunk of a Model Y is screwed. There doesn’t seem to be any kind of accommodations…

The Vegas Hypeloop is peak Gadget Bahn,  as evidenced by the colored lights and probably ruinously high cost per passenger mile. 

The overall dumbness is one thing. Dumb happens, but this right here:

What advantages does this present over a tram system in the tunnels?

Imagine trying to convince M.Elon that folks w/ disabilities need to be accommodated, & that it’s a LAW which he’s obliged to follow. ‘This isn’t for them, I guess, & no one who can afford our product is disabled b/c I don’t know any or find any to be worth my attention to determine that. Only my opinion counts, b/c…

It isn’t 19 miles, it’s 1.7 miles. It doesn’t go to the airport, it will never go to the airport for the same reasons the monorail wasn’t allowed to connect to the airport, and that at least had some logic too it.

I took it between convention center locations this year at NAB. I would describe as being driven down the street by someone in a Tesla.

The private sector does it best, amirite?