Not trying to be ‘that guy’ who comes out in favor of Cruise (I live in SF and hate all the autonomous vehicles and the traffic backups and shit they cause), but it’s true that initially this was headlined by a number of news outlets as “Cruise vehicle hits pedestrian”, with little or no mention of the fact that she…

Q3 2023 EV sales in the U.S. were up around 50% year-over-year vs Q3 2022. Hardly a “I told you so” moment.

After a relatively hot last couple of years, EV sales have cooled off. A lot of American buyers don’t want them

When did Jalop get such a weird, albeit slight, anti EV stance?

Were you here when Denton ran shit? I was.

You can if you have your own business after becoming a journeyman. Rate jobs pay very well, but aren’t exactly consistent. Electrical Engineers make bank a little earlier but school debt.

Electricians (and most other trades) already make bank. Real serious bank for people who didn’t have to go through college and collect a mountain of debt along the way. Though like anything, you need to have some amount of talent for it.

yes, we should just give up

I think they are specifically talking about the red left turn arrow, not green ones.

I will defend the left turn arrow. No it’s not warranted at every single intersection, but it is really necessary in certain spots where you would probably need to sit through 4 or 5 light cycles before you could even hope to get a gap. 

B/c different groups are financing these very different projects.
Are you bored? Did you already finish your coloring book?

Depends on the size sure, and I don’t know if this immediately exploded or not, but I witnessed some car getting burned down (probably some insurance fraud as no one was in it), but the entire car was engulfed for a minute, simmered down another minute and was out in seconds when the fire truck came. I would assume…

I’ll have to read up on the “Cobra cutting extinguisher”, if that played a part in improving the process.

People underestimate the distance they can easily travel on a bike. Especially something like an e-bike that can either assist with power or flat out propel you all by itself for many miles. I’d say 90% is too large of an estimate, but we don’t need bike infrastructure everywhere. Just in places that make sense and…

Exactly — being out of order turns this into click bait. Most people do not read to the end of the title, the just see “Cruise Taxi Runs Over...” and it goes from there. Then the first paragraph is basically calling out how bad Cruise is performing, so it’s definitely got a very ‘editorial’ feel rather than a…

Let me call bullshit on this bit of wonderful click bait. Here’s what actually happened:

Do not generalize your wants to whole population. While I prefer driving myself there are a lot of people who I know that are waiting for self-driving cars. And, as proven by some Tesla owners, some are willing to use “Full Self Driving”. So the market is certainly there and people are willing to pay. The technology…

“While we do not yet have the data to judge AVs against the standard human drivers are setting, I do believe in the potential of this technology to increase safety on the roadway,”

I can tell you, right now, as driver in the bay area, these are already far superior to manually operated vehicles already. The people on…

As someone who’s in their 50's I surely hope that self driving cars will be an option to me when I can no longer safely drive myself.

I’m sure people said the same about airplanes ~100 years ago.