Something tells me that if they *could* figure it out for trucking, they could make it work for the consumer market too. Being legally* not responsible for the car while it’s between exits is something I think a lot of people would pay for the luxury of, and seems less sci-fi than a car that gets you from your origin…

One boat... one slip... on Pierrrrrrrrr 

She a-howlin’ about the front rent, she’ll be lucky to get any back rent.
She ain’t gonna get none of it.

I personally think you could fix it by outlawing stock buy backs (thanks Reaganomics!), or just flat out not being publicly traded. You should be beholden to your customers and you’re employees, nobody else.

You could have made that case before this guy’s death, be it suicide or “suicide”. Boeing is getting killed by the same things that would have killed McDonnel Douglas had they not merged. And I made the same point in a reply to another one of the Boeing articles last week, but this is basically the lesson we should…

Bingo, if an italian varinat of this monster is going to exist, it should be a whole different model. Or heck, a new Maserati Quattroporte?

Good rec. A couple years ago, I had the head-scratching task of helping my snowbird parents search for a convertible in Florida. Really made me realize what few options you have in this space, especially when you actually care about being able to fit people in the back. I kept on winding up in weird places like this…

11th Gen Ford Thunderbird. Might be an unpopular opinion, but I’ve started to find intense 50's boomer nostalgia pieces from this era weirdly charming. 

Insane. This guy was one of the primary contributors to Downfall: The Case Against Boeing on Netflix. Anyone who’s consistently clicked on Boeing related stuff recently has probably seen me post about this thing, and with Barnett’s passing, it should be watched now more than ever.

Right, this is a trend that’s mostly already heading in the right direction regardless of EV adoption. Gentrification as a concept is proof that a significant amount of people would willingly move to places previously deemed a lost cause for cheaper housing in a more dense area.

Sort of the agree with the point your making, but its not a problem of granola hippies, its just a function density. Chicago’s result will be closer to New York because they are two of the most densely populated cities in the country, whereas Denver and Dallas are two of the least so.

I’m probably a minority, but being from an industry that sees a lot of engineering designs go through multiple submissions and review, this whole convention makes my brain bleed.

Bingo. The logical assumption here is the RB legal team probably spent the last 5 days deliberating over whether they could get away with suspending her, and determined they could.

Existential dread hitting big with this one. At some point during the Reagan administration, actual leadership got replaced with “line goes up” types. Society pays a price in the end because those dopes inevitably wind up handcuffing the nerds who actually build cool shit.

I dig this theory, but I think it’s possible those higher-ups didn’t know about it, and that there isn’t a good paper trail on the decision. That doesn’t forgive them of course, it’s a different case for negligence in it’s own right.

Somewhat adjacent to this, I’ve recently been introduced to a theory of how much better American manufacturing would be had there been some kind of government takeover of the Budd company before it went bust. As offensive as it might mean to some for heavy manufacturing to effectively be nationalized, what we’re…

Somebody put it brilliantly in another comment on a previous article:

(documented proof of cutting corners on the product to chase profit)

Funny: The 4.3 V6 in the Chevy Express is making about the same power figures that the small block/Vortec V8's did when it started production...

Even if you want to argue what “separate sections” are, Penske not appealing signals to me they knew what the spirit of the rule was intended to do: ban the specific sort of glove they used. Seems much more like trying to get away with something than exploiting a loophole.