What I’m reading from this validates a belief I’ve held for completely unrelated reasons: The only cars on sale to the public should be late 20th century plastic wedges, like RX7's, C4 & C5 Corvettes, etc.

I think if you saw someone get hit by a car from the days before the referenced law, then a car from after it, and then a modern SUV, it’d be pretty easy to rank the three from worst to best for the pedestrian.

I think the fact that they are blaming it on the software signals how far out of their element they are. Making a car that heavy with that long of a wheelbase good offroad isn’t impossible, but its not a problem you solve with computers (at least not by themselves).

I doubt the suspension was so much a rush job as much as it was an afterthought. My guess is most of the last 5 years was figuring out how on earth to produce the CT shaped like it is out of stainless steel.

Not holding my breath for that one. There are plenty of things right about Toyota, but their dealer network is explicitly not one of them. 

Somewhat adjacent to this, the trend of short videos titled “POV you’re doing (x)“, but it’s not an actual 1st-person view of whatever’s happening is shaving years off my life. Learn what the goddam letters mean, you idiots!

I think the key is there’s a range to how harmless that stuff is. A video popped into my FB feed recently that had some caption like “GTA 6's Graphics are Insane!!!” but it very clearly was a visual mod of the current one. I watched it anyway because it looked interesting, and I don’t think I’m any worse off for it.

I honestly think it’s some kind of mild asperger’s, and it just so happens to make him the living end for this type of content creation. 

Don’t disagree at all, then. While the initial product was fine, the inability of the interior to meaningfully last applies to the rest of car as well. I remember it donning on me in the late 2000's how few 90's GM cars were on the road, even though all my friends from HS were driving similarly aged Toyotas, Hondas,…

LOL-ing hard at 1st. Apple was still working on this? I assumed they gave up on it at some point during the 2020's.

I’ll fight you to the death about the second bullet. Maybe it’s me just being a dumb American, but materials themselves be damned, I prefer the big stuffed and soft seats with zero support to anything that gets put into similar cars today.

(Looks longingly out the window thinking about my grandmother’s 1987 LeSabre that I learned to drive on in the late 2000's)

As gray and plastic as the dash is, I actually think those big padded cloth seats are the best thing about the car. I miss when even cheap crummy cars like this had soft comfy chairs.

“they might be more fickle and irrational than retail investors.”

somewhat related to this: i remember futzing around with the website builder for Ford F-250's, and quite hilariously, the higher trim levels had like half the colors the lower ones.

Indeed, and it usually descends to finger-pointing between the hardware and software side of the things. 

Huh, so it’s basically institutional investing that behaves like retail investing. Fuck that noise.

The problem of making it green and cheap is what makes me think it only has a prayer in Japan. You can get H in the form of the usable fuel as a free byproduct of nuclear power generation, and for better or worse, the Japanese have more of that than they know what to do with. Otherwise, getting the universe’s most…

Agreed. I’ve given Toyota the benefit of the doubt for the most part because I think the temperament towards EV’s is fairly pragmatic, even if it’s rooted on just being behind the 8-ball. But holy moses, that 30% assumption is some head-in-the-sand shit.

And as importantly, there is so much more incentive for building new chargers in the first place, it’s just good business for EA to devote as little resources to maintenance as possible.