Flying cars as personal transport might be a long way off, but short range transportation for parcel service between hubs will be here much sooner. I’m thinking of FedEx 1DA/2DA deliveries that need to get from an airport out for delivery very quickly and where companies will pay $200+ per kg for guaranteed service.

This is the sound of someone wealthy who has recently discovered LSD. If I was 22 and tripping on the beach, I’m sure it would sound pleasant and vaguely profound.

This makes me sick. Having reliable transportation is a basic stepping stone of upward mobility. This is even more critical in an era when Lyft/Uber/Grubhub has become a lifeline for unemployed and underemployed people.

Yep. This is an old classic, along with: “How come the homeless have cell phones!”, “The poor shouldn’t have TVs and Refrigerators!” and “How dare people ask for public assistance while spending money on internet access!”.

It depends where you grew up. I know a few rural Gen-Xers that caught an ass full of rock salt from neighbors who didn’t want anyone on their property.

I’m sure they don’t. I wonder if (like Ford, Stellantis and GM) they will look at their margins and discover they are actually more profitable with a smaller fleet.

I suspect that rental car agencies on the island don’t have the cars to meet demand at normal pricing, and they are just adjusting their prices up to find what the market will support. Car companies aren’t in their pre-COVID position of needing to offload surplus demand at a discount to rental agencies, and the big…

If you want to get around the Big Island and see more than a resort, a rental car is the only reasonable way to do it. I would be infuriated if I was a resident, but it’s hard to blame tourists for choosing a legal and economical option.

Yep. EVs are a market entering the maturity phase. Let’s stick with your example, and say Tesla is Apple. Right around iPhone 5, innovation stopped moving in giant leaps and became incremental. I think that’s right about where Tesla is with cars.

Point taken that the internet (and Palo Alto) are not representative of most people’s experience in the real world.

The fact that an EV with 1000HP, sub 2 second 0-60*, room for 5 and L2+ driving aids feels ho hum is a pretty good indication that EVs are now truly entering maturity.

In some ways, the Maverick is the American successor to the Beetle as the people’s car. It’s shockingly cheap, has an efficient drivetrain, comes in fun colors and doesn’t seem to take itself too seriously.

This would be a very insightful comment, if it was 2011. At this point, HEVs, PHEVs and EVs are available in every category at a 0-20% markup from their ICE counterparts.

It’s working defining Scope 1, 2, and 3.

I suspect we’ll see it as a Lexus LX in relatively short order. The ongoing success of Suburbans / Escalades / Yukons / Navigators are a pretty good indicator that there is a market for capable SUVs sold at a premium.

I love to imagine an application of this on a sailboat. I’m imagining computer control to adjust the angle of the blades to wind direction and adjust blade size based on wind speed. You would need really big blades, and it would either need a serious keel, or be placed on a catamaran.

This is almost definitely a preview of what we’ll see when they finally get around to releasing the Tundra specs. I know there is a hybrid coming along as well.

I’m heartbroken to hear that. I have a deeply disturbing fantasy about owning a Rover SD1.

This is the kind of innovative thinking I come to Jalopnik for.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know what this would like from the standpoint of the woman’s insurance?