New question when applying for auto insurance:

The olden days method of tapping the starter when all you are getting is a “click” out of turning the key no longer applies? 

Wwaiting for the following resolution:

EVs with eleventy-billion horsepower and instant acceleration. What could possibly go wrong in the hands of the unwashed masses, even when they are working properly - never a given with a Tesla product.

If only there was a way to open a lock without electricity...

There’s a manual switch in the driver’s side armrest there’s a manual switch in the drivers side armrest but that won’t help if you’re locked out but that won’t help if you’re locked out.

Whenever Musk is talking about population stuff, you gotta remember to substitute “people” with “white people from Western countries” and it’ll all make perfect sense. This is just old-fashioned white supremacist eugenics that’s thinly veiled behind some science-y language to make it more palatable.

So 8 billion is not enough, eh?  Anyone want to tell this to fish stocks, pollution monitors, microplastic researchers, or anyone driving through LA at pretty much any time during the day?

perhaps 300hp from a 1.5L I3 is poblematic...

Sounds fantastic, but car engines in boats tend not to last.  Yes, I am aware that most marine engines start life as automotive blocks.

The mindset that insists on things like this is beyond seeking ostentatious displays of wealth. It’s obscene, vulgar even. There’s a part of me that’s genuinely sad, that so much wealth can be hoarded by a single human.

Stamping would require new tooling (top punch and bottom die) to be made for each panel, which could have been even more expensive than just machining one set of panels from billet aluminum.

The story is written strangely

Arrest him. Tow and crush his car. How fucking hard is that to figure out?

They are highly maneuverable, easy to store and hide, and able to slip through traffic and along sidewalks. 

I hate the waste. Ship them somewhere or have an online sale - if they show up again in the city, sell them AGAIN. 

That’s how you know the police aren’t really there to help you.

My hot take is that people are louder, dumber, and more miserable to be around than they’ve ever been, so I personally appreciate that it’s so easy to insulate myself from them. 

Yeah, maybe the rise of social media as a means to form virtual networks/community is really the “significant” part of this. Not saying everyone is lazy, but before cheap cell phones you basically had to go out if you wanted any sort of interaction.  Ride a bike, make friends with cars, whatever your situation I don’t…

When any pleb with near a hundred grand worth of buying power can get an EV that will do 0-60 in under 4 seconds, of course that metric loses the panache it used to have to super and hypercar makers.