It doesn’t take any experience to know that if a company is run like an Animal House frat house, that things are going to go wrong.

Less than the repairs on the Ranger.

I was surprised that the pallet wasn’t instant kindling when the bolder dropped.

My father always said that any organization that was over 50 years old would be so mired in internal rules and corruption to be no longer effective at what it was designed to do.

Bic lighter point: The average salary of a registered nurse is just over $68K. Your mileage may vary.

I suspect that one reason why wall street likes Tesla because they are in a market that has significant growth potential. GM is in a market where sales are pretty much for replacement, with slight growth as the population increases. And GM has several competitors who are fairly equal players. Once wall street thinks…

Hope the test results continue to be good.

Not sure where you are coming from. The complaint was also measured, plausible, and verifiable. There have been hints previously about safety at the factory. Now there’s a lawsuit. And Ryan’s article seems reasonably even handed. I don’t even see the headline being outrageous click bait.

An estate can currently leave up to $5.49 million and pay no federal estate or gift tax, so it looks like the median inheritance is safe.

Obama AND Hillary. Plus a dash of John McCain.

The answer isn’t always Miata. The answer isn’t always more horsepower. Sometimes the answer is both.

Never underestimate the power of the following at the ballot box: “We’re going to reverse Roe v. Wade.” That and “Libs are gonna take all our guns!” Those two, and “repeal and replace Obamacare” are the ticket to office in a large part of our country.

It’s kind of like interstate commerce. The Feds can insert their nose into pretty much anything using the commerce clause of the Constitution.

It sounds like Saudi Arabia is also working toward a time when their economy is not dependent upon the oil market. Pretty smart thing to be doing, IMO.

Ignoring the engine sound aspect, a car with all-wheel drive and traction control ideally would be optimized so that it at least feels like it’s borderline almost losing it. Kind of like the old saw about two women wearing bikinis. The one wearing a bikini that looks like it might have a ‘wardrobe malfunction’ is the…

A driverless car could be programmed to do things like that. Just like Google was reported to have changed their cars to behave more like people in situations like 4-way stops.

No one buys a Lambo to go 186MPG. They are driven at 2.5MPG on Miami Beach or Monaco.

Eventually, like several decades from now, they may want to switch to 100% ethanol engines. Assuming a massive shift to electric, ethanol would allow them to run much higher compression, so they could optimize the engines. The same fuel Indy cars run on. At that time, ICE vehicles would be niche, and you’d have people…

Private planes are dominated by just a few manufacturers. There are a fair number of ‘boutique’ manufacturers though. Aircraft Manufactures 

What with the stories about issues regarding factory workers, I don’t think I’d want to be on the assembly line right now. Especially considering that at Spacex, they only hire young workers, mostly as salaried employees, and work them to death. Been there, done that, didn’t even get the t-shirt.