I wonder if the increasing EV numbers are still predicted to push oil demand way down. I think we would all love to see gas prices drop due to lower demand, and for the countries (and corporations) that make money pumping oil to take a big hit.  It’s hard to see any downside to Russia and various Middle Eastern royal…

No they didn’t. The right & left half’s of the floor pan were spot welded to the tunnel. Yes, each piece was stamped but the tunnel was much thicker than the floor pans...

Yeah, no.

Welding steel sheet metal is a hell of a lot easier than welding cast aluminum. It is also much easier to repair sheet metal post-accident than aluminum castings. It’s just another thing that will lead to more disposable vehicles.

This is almost the exact conversation my wife & I had last night about the ‘gigacasting’ thing. We are a blast at parties, I can assure you.

If such a car comes into existence—cheap to own but expensive to insure—how does such an outcome help Joe Consumer? More money out of JC’s pocket is still money out of his pocket—whether it goes to the manufacturer or insurance company makes no diff whatsoever.

As with most Elon Musk sourced/derived/related news, I assume this won’t happen until it’s happening.

You can thank first Jimmy Carter and then Ronnie Reagan for deregulation of the trucking industry. That was the start of the race to the bottom. I got my combination license in 1981 and drove for 25 years. Drivers today are making the same or less money as I was when I quit driving. The quality of drivers today is…

If only there was a way to move freight around the country, efficiently, in a much larger capacity per vehicle, using less diesel per tonne, with offloading facilities that don’t require the demolition of two stadiums for its footprint. Which would lead to more need for smaller trailers with delivery within a 250 mile…

to full-fledged hotel-like lots with bright lights, clean facilities, and even massage therapists. lot lizards.

They could use these, but then they might not be available if a peaceful human rights protest broke out at the same time.

“They also want to know what the public thinks officials and law enforcement should do about them.”

It would help if the police actually responded when people call in sideshows, which the often don’t. 

Anyone squealing on a someone gets cash. I’m sure this idea will never be abused.

Exactly, they want it to remain illegal, and continue to get away with it.

They wont, they just wont.  They COULD pool together and rent a drag strip or small track.  Iriwindale is ight there and there is another drag strip not far.  They could go a legal/safe route, but no they do it this way because they WANT to not because they have no other options.

Seems like he should be in jail, or a felon who isn’t allowed to own guns permanently.

I mean, the country has a history ofnsome relatively strict gun control laws. Multiple cities required you not to store them loaded. Allowed them to be seized for use by the local militia, or required them to be deposited with the sheriff while in town.

Yeah but Clarence Thomas insists we need to be “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition” of carrying muskets, dying of tuberculosis, and shitting in holes in the ground.

Clarence Thomas, stated “the government must demonstrate that the regulation is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”