“Then, by your logic, an atomic weapon is not designed to kill.”

Yes, you were especially incoherent.

“Guns were invented as a weapon, end of story.”

Their proposals and actions did nothing with regards to the problem they leveraged to get them. Instead they are simply about pushing their own “good ideas” and control freakism. Numbers on signs and paint on the pavement does absolutely nothing with regards to street racers and motorcyclists doing 80mph on a typical…

Traffic “calming” measures are incredibly crude ham-fisted measures that cause annoyance, damage to vehicles, over complication*, and traffic congestion.

“Guns are designed to kill and are used for that purpose.”

“Who jaywalks on a 4 lane road with a median, anyway?”

“According to the report, the collision occurred on a two-mile stretch of Bayshore Boulevard that is four lanes wide with a grass median separating the two sides of the road, which does not have any crosswalks. Previous attempts at having the road’s 40 mph speed limit lowered have failed.

If he thinks the press he’s been getting lately is bad, just wait until his company gets the same treatment as the bigs.

Oh the social contract. The unwritten contract that says your neighbors have to pay for your self serving good ideas. Gotcha.

I spend about 5-10 minutes every year or two using 2000 grit polish for paint.

Paid for by your neighbors. The beauty of government, free stuff for you, bills for everyone else.

And those street pods would be hilarious any place with decent snow fall.

Under a mandated condition they aren’t perks. Perks are usually cheaper than well, salary increases.

“and for long range commuters you charge at work as well”

“it’s just a question of changing your “refueling” habits.”

“If this were your mother, your aunt and your sister” 

Ford make more? That’s not how Ford operates. For a couple decades now every car that is even slightly special is at the very least a dealer’s reward car. Made to reward high sales figures. And the only way dealers can surcharge on them is to limit production volume. The earlier 21st century Ford GT was like that. If…

Why? Because it costs money and the customer base is not willing to pay for it. The automakers want the profits (costs are passed on with profit margin) and the market protections that regulations afford them. But since the customer won’t spend on it, they need it forced across the board. Because otherwise people…

With an existing approved supplier and moving the tool the PPAP etc can be done quickly without much more than having someone work overtime on the CMM. Especially if Ford had the processing parameters and the die is on the same make and model machine. Which it probably has to be to get it working this fast.

Mg die casting is fairly common, what is uncommon are large parts and certain secondary operations.