Whatever mate. I know an awful lot of woman, none of them live in terror of anything. My world is rather larger than most. If you live in a third-world-style hellscape, my advice is move somewhere better.

You would die so happy. Trust me on this. Those pork chops are almost reason enough to go back. Though now that I think about it, it must have been AL, not MS.

Why would you compare it to an CUV? It can do things a CUV can’t, that more than justifies a higher price. Only due to the inevitable recession or Ford cranking up production too high. They are still cheap period. The days of sub $25K cars in general are over. And as I said, nobody bought the base model anyway (maybe…

It is amazing how you can find great food in the most random of places. But for the most part, my food experiences in ND came under the heading of “home cooking by someone who doesn’t really know how to cook”. And if you are lucky, there are TWO places to eat in town. But in those days I was installing hardware store…

Very true - I always forget that they are written by two different people. Definitely the best two parts of the site these days.

No reason for it to be. It just takes proper engineering to account for the slightly higher duty cycle.

From other, better reporting, my understanding is both were driving down the freeway and the Tesla just plain ran over the motorcyclist. I think the “it accelerated” bit is a bad quote job or just a red herring in general. I suspect the “lurch” was the deceleration when the car hit the bike, which of course startled…

It doesn’t matter how many warnings you need to agree to. Humans are simply BAD at this, countless disasters have been caused by the human who was supposed to be monitoring the situation not doing so competently, whether intentional or not. FSD is just good enough the vast majority of the time to lull you into not…

I do bicycle, but thankfully around here I can get anywhere I want to go on a pedal bike with only having to *cross* main roads - and I am damned careful about that. Lots of good wide sidewalks along those, and the neighborhoods are large and quiet.

This is actually a great idea. Great big flashing green lights on top when in “self-driving” mode would be just fine.

This is why as much of a gearhead as I am, I have no interest in riding a motorcycle at all. It’s just way too dangerous today, and by the time you have the gear on to have even a minimal chance of survival it’s not fun or comfortable. I can drive my ancient crock of a deathtrap Triumph Spitfire in shorts and t-shirt,…

If the shoe fits. <shrug>

Guess what - EV charging stations have cameras too - and so do most EVs. There are cameras EVERYWHERE today.

Sexual harassment I will buy - at this point just complementing a woman on her looks can be construed as harassment. Actual physical assault such that they feel the need to flee in terror in a car that is plugged in? Not buying that at all as something that happens often enough to bother with. If your only charging…

I don’t think any of these companies are saying they are going to STOP making EVs or completely stop developing EVs. They are just not going to completely switch to building nothing but EVs in a ridiculously short timeframe that the car market is saying loud and clear is far too ambitious. To make that happen would…

The rocket will get there eventually, at this point I would not bet against SpaceX on that. With a live human crew? Not so sure on that one. But it will probably get them there, especially if they are ok with it likely being a one-way trip. We got to the moon and back in 1969 with a rocket designed largely with slide…

What tickles him is lowest production cost period, full stop, do not pass go, do not collect $200. And to hell with minor details like usability and repairability. He has this insane notion that lowest production cost will somehow mean it never needs to be repaired, so why should that matter? Which is how we get…

ROFL - I was thinking the same thing.

I often am, depending on the room and how you define “smart”. By definition, half the human population is below average in intelligence, given that intelligence is generally believed to follow a “normal” distribution. <shrug>

They can take solace that gas pumps already universally have break away features. As my sainted mother proved when she drove away with one once. Oops.