Federal and California regulation governs new cars. State emissions testing is based on year of manufacture. A 1975 car made new in 2018 is considered a 2018 or maybe 2019 model under the law.

Can’t even offer them for sale. That 250 is with other manufacturers’ engines. That’s just getting around safety requirements for on road. There are also going to be requirements for off road that 1975 vehicles are unlikely to meet. On road, off road, whatever there are emissions and other requirements and not a…

It’s nonsense. You can’t sell more than what is it? 250 cars per year made with 1975 technology in 2018. It’s not legal to do so. And that’s only a recent relenting of the law.

As CEO and not owner liquidation would be silly. Plus most equipment from 1975 is practically worthless in 2018. You can’t build legally volume sellable cars in 2018 with 1975 equipment. That makes the exercise nonsense.

That’s just nonsense and completely unworkable. 

I’ll take 1975 and with my knowledge of what happens from 1975 on I’ll turn the desperate car company into something. For instance I’ll know to throw resources at the minivan and when to do it. The cash flow will be the big problem but perhaps there will be ways to raise capital by understanding where the market is goi…

An old Falcon platform car controlled by computer. What sort of idiot thinks any car of that era would be suitible for such a thing? The tolerances in them would drive a computer crazy. It performed as anyone who is experienced with cars made in the 1970s and before would expect. Humans make all these tiny inputs…

Well I guess if someone buy’s a TM product while working the lowest levels of fast food they might not get the full credit. Somehow I think those cases can be safely neglected in the overall calculation of nudging people to buy these products.

Sorry, no. The favorability for diesel power in europe goes way way back. Back as far as pre-emission controls. Nobody deceived government. With little exception government keeps pushing into trivial levels to justify keeping government departments and jobs around. Also there is a desire to bring personal private…

Cops these days are always about cranking up the manpower. That’s what government is for, creating lots of jobs for friends, family, connected, whomever. Bigger budgets always. And this was a government paid for trip to the strip club. I would not be surprised if they had 15 cops in there.

Because people who buy $35K and up cars don’t pay at least $7500 in federal income tax? Some credits (don’t know about this one) can be rolled over to the next tax year.

“yet another bad sign of where this country is headed”

It’s more than that. They are fundamentally incapable of having the information to make the correct decisions even if they wanted to and tried. No small group can possibly understand the needs and wants of so many millions or even billions of people. Each time they meddle people react in ways they cannot predict. For…

Government encourages cars with diesel engines. Government bans cars with diesel engines. One might some day realize that most government action is simply to deal with the fallout of their previous actions. Which of course will require even more actions. 

And if he wasn’t impressed or surprised there would still be complaints, as stereotyping most likely, because a grievance industry needs grievances.

So some governor who probably went to some school where the chess club was two people is impressed that these kids are playing chess where he least expected it. So what?…

The whole point of robot cars is for government or some corporate or multi-corporate entity working with government to be able to centrally control them. The only question being dealt with is whom will be more in control, the corporations that build the robot cars or the government. 

It identifies as a coupe. It doesn’t have to be one. That’s how language is used today.

So instead of being the fault of the tiny so-called elite that have run various global empires including that of the USA, you title and write the article as if it is the fault of all white people, even those who were only relatively recently declared white for the sake of modern divisiveness.

This article does the…

If it was a corporation they could have him train an H1-B replacement and then fire him. But its government so he’s probably safe.

Hey don’t spoil the joke ;)