Specifically and GLEEFULLY

Which he specifically admitted in the comments. 

The fact that Rivian isn’t brought up at all while all signs point to it being the first luxury fully electric pickup from a startup to (hopefully) hit the market exposes this article for what it is. Another opportunity for Torch to take a swipe at Tesla to collect those sweet sweet Tesla clicks.

This dude needs to get some help

ngl sounds like your brother could have ended up buying a 16 grand 2012 civic from a dealership.

I have to concur. It sounds like it’s his first time out of the house and can barely function in society. And is already so conditioned by covid. What a shame.

I didn’t take as tone deaf so much as a gentle plea for help.  Dude needs a therapist, clearly.

I had the same takeaway. I mean, you drove on the interstate through the midwest, this isn’t the Highway of Death through Baghdad. I live in Kansas and everyone wears masks. Hell, you get bad looks if you DON’T wear masks around here. Sure, out in the sticks there are more people that put up a fight to mask wearing.…

Yup. Some people really, really want to claim the mantle of victimhood. I guess that “I drove across the country, and nothing happened” isn’t clickbaity enough for Jalopnik.

This was a weird article and I think it was pretty tone deaf. Unless he’s omitting something, he was never in any real danger. It felt like kind of a slap in the face as someone who might *actually* be a victim of a hate crime - a relatively flamboyant black city boy. What are his concerns? That someone might think he…

Oh, a look.

I felt attacked from all sides — the bullying tractor-trailers on the highway, the flatness, the cold, the constant anxiety about where it would be safe to piss.

Counterpoint: I’m a pinko commie New Yorker who gets an absolute kick out of driving cross-country in any occasion. Yes, people express some opinions I disagree with, but it’s one of the singular pleasures of living in this country to drive coast-to-coast, whether solo or with a buddy. Your mileage does vary based on…

hey Erik, I’m curious, if you were to walk in to a store with a mask on, did they give you shit for it? like make you take it off? was there hostility toward that? i ask because im considering riding my bicycle across the country later this year, and I will be masked when i walk in to places (im targeting 300+ miles a…

“I wonder what is the point of investing huge amounts in [technical] solutions which contribute little to the show?”

Perhaps you never understood that mentality because you embody it?

It’s only trucks that need to justify themselves to this type of person by working at their capacity all the time too.

I’ve always found it weird that people concern themselves with what other people are buying. I have a truck. It’s really no one’s business other than my own as to why I have a truck. I don’t need to justify it to anyone else. These same questions never get asked of people with sports cars or people with motorcycles.…

I imagine that Finland has very consistently cold weather in the winter which means switching to snow tires is fine. However, a lot of places in the United States can have wild swings from warm to cold temperatures. Based on the best information I can find, winter tires are only rated for temperatures below 45°F…

No,