Lithium is a hassle, but many utility vans such as the Ford Transit and Mercedes Metris have a second conventional battery option for accessories. The batteries are tied together when the engine is running.

These stories are Brownshirt detectors.

This is the problem. Back when Renault and Peugeot and Citroen were last sold in the USA, they were still interesting. In the decades they’ve been gone they’ve metamorphosed into boring.

He wrote, oblivious of the irony

I’m all for generous following distance and I’d say it’s good enough to call both distances interchangeable, but the stopping distance will always be longer. The car in front cannot stop instantaneously, and reaction time is just as much a factor in both cases.

An obnoxious dude in a bro truck runs over a totaled junker car that’s been half-buried in the sand for a week and it’s wall-to-wall outrage. How dare you damage someone else’s seemingly-abandoned property, even if it’s indistinguishable from litter!

The “hard plastic diskette” was also a floppy disk. “Floppy” referred to the flexible disk on the inside.

What does using it right look like? Hovering over the controls, ready to take over at any moment? That’s what Tesla, Inc. pretends in order to avoid liability.

One can always tell who’s only knowledge of Reddit came from reading hit pieces by Sam Biddle et al at Gawker.

I don’t like it. It’s a blind latch. Those can get stuck, leaving your cubby locked from the inside.

I hear they also use Comcast and Google. You should associate those things with racist Trump supporters, too.

Don’t focus on the grille. That’s just a superficial detail.

Manufacturers can encrypt and obfuscate but the main barrier to competition is legal - including laws prohibiting circumvention of cryptography, no matter how weak.

Says the guy who ignored my argument and instead attacked a strawman who just begrudged Tesla for “attempting to make money.”

Of course they care. The legal situation is the only thing that makes the business model possible. It has everything to do with what is happening here.

Not sure what the hell the DMCA has to do with this at all.

That’s not analogous. An ISP has to use more of THEIR bandwidth when they provide a higher-speed line.

So long as the northbound traffic map is showing mainly green lines (like it is as of this writing), contraflow is is a fix for something that isn’t broken.

Blocking the helipad is the new blocking the handicapped spot.

I think it’s the other way around. This is how car companies trick Jalopnik readers into buying CUVs.