Higher-income shopping centers are obvious, but make up at most half of new installs. They other big slice that’s more important are the ones strategically dropped right off the highway in nowhere towns at midpoints between major cities. The last one I did was in western IL, that was bridging the gap between Chicago…

Tesla is in no better place to “”abuse” this monopoly now than they were 5+ years ago. They had by far and away the best charging network before other companies started using NACS, and they still have it now.

I think it’s like SpaceX where there are some really sharp people running that side of the business and knows how to keep their distance from Elmo.

1st: For all the stupid that has gone at Tesla, the charging network is while I’ll never actively route for them to fail. Somebody at that company fundamentally understands the importance of building out a good charging network, and has convinced Elon its worth throwing tons of money at. The world is better off for…

I remember like a week after that change went live, somebody impersonated Eli Lilly and made the stock price take a hit for claiming that they would be cutting insulin prices. It’s all fun and games until you realize that *checks notes* institutional investing cannot be bothered to do the cursory check for legitimacy…

1. The Toyota Tax exists for a reason.

A friend’s father once told me he had a C2-generation Corvette “with an experimental Can Am motor” that turned a lap at Indy “fast enough for pole” that year. It’s total bullshit, and definitely not possible, because Indy roadsters were pretty damn fast by the mid-1960s, and Corvettes, uh, weren’t.

The request is making me have an aneurysm. Whatever car you buy is going to make you look like a loser parent lugging your kids around because that’s what you’ll be doing with it. You’re a parent now! Don’t make your life worse for the sake of pretending you aren’t!

I think the problem is that as much of a liability as Musk is, the BoD is probably too scared of what would happen if he left and took his army of chuds with him. His lunacy makes up one of the legs on a very rickety stool. 

Very well said. This book/movie tells a compelling story, but frames it in way people want to hear rather than what they should hear: Just f*cking off to the woods is not a good solution to your problems, regardless of how valid and unfortunate they are. McCandless is not a martyr, he’s a cautionary tale.

My kingdom for an alternate timeline where the FnF movies never happened, and there were more unmolested examples of these out there.

“Happiness is only real when shared”.

The classic 60's American door handle that’s basically just a chrome blade with an oval button under the rear end. These rule incredibly hard. 

I would argue it’s more of a question if the execs let them make enough in the first place. Consumers want cheap cars, stockholders want high margins. The latter usually gets their way, and production resources get allocated accordingly.

Woof, these are entirely different magnitudes of dumb. You could talk me into NASCAR themed crocs being sort of ironically funny, but anyone spending their money on that Ferrari stuff is an exponentially bigger tool.

It begs the question though how much cost people would eat to just not interact with the sales/finance department, other than maybe signing a few things when they pick up the car. At the very least, I’d love to see how it goes if someone other than Carmax tries it. 

That’s about what I figured. While I want to believe this argument on principle, I’d kind of like it substantiated better. 

Agreed, but I think there’s a point about the Tesla recall worth making regardless: that company single-handedly drives a lot of public perception on AV’s, which isn’t good for AV’s.

I can’t really figure out what was going on from the text, but I think if the truck took the cyclist out of the car’s view, I would assume the cyclist also didn’t have a view of the car either... which as a cyclist myself, is why you stop regardless of right-of-way. You shouldn’t enter an intersection if your view of…

1. I agree with everything getting said here, and as am annoyed by the discourse around AV’s and AI as anyone.