Indeed, this is what you buy if you want people know how much money you spent on a car, without realizing you ae completely devoid of taste.

I saw a purple one on the first floor of a parking garage at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago. The thought that somebody high ranking at the university probably drives it pisses me off to no end.

Great pick. In hindsight, both this and the Caddy CT6 were short-lived treasures. 

You could simplify this even further: It’s less about catering to the UAW specifically, and more about chasing the middle of the electorate close to a general election. That’s normal, for better or worse.

I totally get that as a Chicago native, as we’ve got that problem even worse with ORD. It was the busiest for 30 years before ATL, and despite still being huge and capable of moving a lot of people, it shows it’s age: The cell phone lot is in a nuts off-site location, rideshare pickup is outside one of the…

I honestly think you could fix all of this with just a revised CAFE. Instead we have two flawed systems; One leaves too many outs for larger vehicles, the other was this arbitrary misinterpretation of how fast we could fully pivot to EV’s.

“I don’t think this move is popular with anyone but a very small segment of the public.”

Yeah, bleak wasn’t the right word, but conspiratorial wasn’t either. Views that are completely divorced of everything except political implications will always just feel sort of condescending... even if they’re right. 

Extremely bleak take on 1st: this is the Biden admin picking up some moderate support before November.

Something I’m realizing now: ORD has its rideshare pickup on the departures level of the loop. Which always drove me nuts, but now I’m thinking might be a way to deter unsolicited pickups? Like the best way to make sure nobody at arrivals gets snagged is making sure *everyone* down there already has a ride (or is at…

I’m 99% sure ATL does, but these grifts bank people not being familiar with there they are, and it not registering that “hey, this person offering me a ride is not in the designated taxi/livery car area”.

Right, as long as the road is public and anyone can get on it to pick up friends/family, you have to wait until these people commit an actual crime.

“nothin’ at the top but a chevy and cop, and an illustrated book about SPEED”

Heh, Goodyear is one of the first companies I’ll look side-eyed at, but this definitely was not a cost issue:

The best scene from Vice: The lady in the think tank proposes all kinds of surveillance and whatever else as a means to prevent terrorism, and labelling it the “The Patriot Act”. The yokels love it.

I think more hybridization is just an unintended good consequence of the original EV mandates. There were a lot of mopes out there who were always going to stay away from EV’s on principle, but if you spend enough time telling them they will be stuck with one eventually, it makes owning a hybrid seem like a reasonable …

The real state senators are the friends we made along the way!

You’d probably put a sizable dent in regional air travel with this too. Any door-to-door drive of 6 hours is probably a wash on time spent at/in-transit to the airport.  And there’s probably some more time people would trade for that privacy, the freedom to stop along the way, and to have their car when they got…

Right, this would hopefully offset the fact that now they’re pretty much doing the “hard part” repeatedly. That and the downtime in-between drives.

It would be fun if this makes a scenario where truckers basically become marine pilots in big ports. They just hang out at the truck stop waiting for the next semi to roll up and take it to and from the origins/termini. You probably just need to shuttle them back to the stop if there isn’t a semi waiting to go the…