I’m surprised no one mentioned parking meters—coins, specifically for these. Many cities still have not updated to credit card meters.

Also, not for everyone, but casinos.

Lastly, any travel destination with less than squeaky-clean local law enforcement. Always better to have a $50 or $100 on you to “pay the fine” at…

Every station in SoCal has been this way since the “Great Recession”.

Came here for this take...

We’re definitely in agreement on a couple points here—most of what the media puts out is indeed second rate (if even that) and voter turnout had everything to do with 2016 (and Mrs. Clinton had everything to do with voter turnout). That said, I follow politics, and generational politics, pretty closely, especially for…

What I’m really curious to see is how the actual customer cars run 0-60 and the 1/4 mile. Really, isn’t *that* what counts for a vehicle, in terms of power, performance, and quickness, not the digital output of some rolly wheel machine tucked away in a tuner’s garage somewhere? I mean a Detroit Diesel will dyno out…

Petition the city...??  Just have the police drop a firebomb on it from a helicopter.

Even worse--those who check the “manual” box on Craigslist or Auto Trader because it has paddles or a spring-loaded tippy-trippy slushbox gear selector lever. 

More recent data seems to point to the years I cited, but you’re correct in that the definitive date range seems to be all over the map for Millennials. Upon my anecdotal observations, I personally think that most demographers put the start date too early—I sincerely believe it to be more into the mid- to late-80's,…

Please don’t take this as me thinking you’re being dishonest, but I’m a little confused as to the credentials you’ve proffered several times in your posts. Earlier on you mention that you direct product launches of EV’s, but here you seem to assert that you’re a political or sociological…

Millennials have been voting for two decades now in the US (‘81-’96), and are now beginning a relative curve to the right, politically, from where they have been in years past. Perhaps you meant Gen Z? Further, I’m not sure where you draw your conclusion that Boomers are dying quickly. Most are in their 70's, upper…

Babied carefully on the highway, my 2016 C7 would turn 32mpg.  That’s from a 6.2L 460 HP pushrod V8, mind you.

I would posit that rather than providing a government incentive directly to individuals, rich, poor, or middle class, to encourage EV purchases, that the funds could have been spent with greater efficacy if instead used to build-out national EV charging infrastructure. People aren’t discouraged from buying EV’s…

I would posit that rather than providing a government incentive directly to individuals, rich, poor, or middle class, to encourage EV purchases, that the funds could have been spent with greater efficacy if instead used to build-out national EV charging infrastructure. People aren’t discouraged from buying EV’s…

In today’s world I don’t think that’s a very good assumption. Most people don’t answer calls from unfamiliar numbers even when they have an outstanding callback request to a business, because these days 99.999999% of them are robocalls. Most folks let these roll to VM assuming any legitimate caller will leave a…

Two different states:  West Virginia =/= Virginia

I disagree with your last supposition. I’m willing to bet that had the driver been actively driving the car, and had not just engaged the Autopilot system, switching into the mental paradigm of all the presumptions that come with doing so, that he very well may have been able to avoid this wreck. Or at least taken…

Speculating here, but “Driver not paying attention” likely *BECAUSE* he’d engaged the Autopilot system and all the mental presumptions that come with doing so. So I’m willing to bet that it was, indeed, one of the most concerning/contributing factors of this incident.

I agree with your other points, however.

As a Naval Aviator, I can tell you that fuel starvation mishaps are indeed a thing, even for professional aviators. Although many times the cause is something mechanical, rather than inattention of the pilot.

I can’t speak for other areas, but in CA Uber Black drivers are professional livery drivers with state registered, commercial livery vehicles. So they are limousine/executive sedan drivers, not just Joe off the street using his personal car for a side hustle.

Although still not Bavarian-grade, I’ve gotta say that I think this is the area where Chevy has it all over Ford: