Most U.S. states require front plates and have done since your grandfather was born. They do make it easier to identify a car. In the real world, not everyone gets a clear view from the back.

License plates long predate red light cameras.

Corvettes have been available with hatches since the very late C3s. Only convertibles and fixed-roof C5s had trunk lids instead.

I think the author should start by remembering the Concorde.

The proposals are reactions to progress in electric cars. Just as all successful tech mandates are a reactions to what is already becoming practical.

At least three of these cars are terrible suggestions for someone who is 6'6".

I think you guys need to see a gastroenterologist.

Press the key fob the wrong way and the car door swings into traffic, way outside the driver’s line of sight? This problem should have occurred to Tesla product managers 90 seconds into the preliminary design review.

If there were a ban of ICE vehicles in California, it would be a legal nightmare. For one state to ban a product that represents a large portion of interstate trade by value, that would really test the limits of what states can do under the constitution.

It was a perfectly valid comparison. The poster suggested it was impossible to fly the Confederate battle flag and still be a “patriotic American” because the Confederacy fought the United States. Well, so did the British. Twice. They even burned down the White House.

Er, my rhetorical questions were in reference to the Confederate battle flag, not the Union Jack. You can delete the first three-quarters of your reply.

and your point is?

The design brief appears to have been “take every hard-won lesson about human machine interfaces and do the opposite.” We are living in an ergonomic Dark Age.

Whoosh.

“Regardless of what they represent to some people?” What symbols represent to people is the only thing that matters.

The same way you can be a patriotic American and fly the British flag.

I think it’s the other way around. Unless they’re working under a contract that somehow prevents them being canned for not standing, or there is some overriding state law, I’m not sure what their argument would be.

Huh? Richard Petty, the subject of this conversation, stated explicitly he does not. In other cases where employers do support demonstrations, why would their employees sue? What would be their damages? What are you even talking about?

I fully accept that you don’t like Corvettes... for extraordinarily dumb reasons.

First, don’t pretend this isn’t groupthink. Your decision is based entirely on what some other group thinks. In this case, you’re just being a contrarian. It’s the same difference.