This I know for Chrysler products because I talked with an engineer about it once: There are essentially dieselgate-adjacent situations where the boss tells them they need to get x-performance figures out of an existing engine architecture. The only way out is tuning the engine to run on mid-grade, and then like…

It’s more about the stupids they are getting that money from. People will believe someone or something is controlling the world because the thought of the whole thing being an accident is somehow more scary to them. Doesn’t matter if it’s Biden, Bill Gates, the cabal on the Jewish Space Lazer, or Tom Petty; it has to…

What’s awesome is that there is real low-hanging fruit here for a bad faith argument about how this ship flagged from one of the Trump-deemed “shithole countries” can’t make it out of an American port without bursting into flames and knocking over a bridge.

I can’t remember what exactly it was, but there was a pretty shoddily framed poll regarding lack of AV confidence presented here recently. The sort of thing where “I want to believe this is true, but I need better reasoning”.

Doing the opposite and making it really accessible sets us up for a funnier data point IMO: If every owner walks out one morning and all of sudden the option for FSD is just there, watch 95% of the new users try it like once, or never at all. 

Do they sell the regular Explorer in the EU? I’m trying to use the prices here as a reference, and, um...

“I believe human beings can impact the environment only when pointing this out supports my interests.”

Right? The changes aren’t drastic, but this is notably more handsome than a regular CR-V.

The color doesn’t help. It’s really testing my stance that: “I don’t have to love the color to be happy it’s not in grayscale.”

More importantly, every vessel that visits a US port is held to *some* standard of care regardless of if it’s foreign or not. I’d actually hazard that this standard might improve once we find out how borked this thing was. 

I wonder what’s less likely: A rudimentary safety structure they implemented when the same thing happened to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in FL, or the “Make Sure the Ship Isn’t Broken Before it Leaves the Port” bill.

There are only two meaningful points of discourse here:

Yeah, it’s a lot more complex than letting the engineering handle everything. Those can just as easily be “line goes up” types that ruin everything.

I agree, but it’s just not going to happen as long as the company is publicly traded. The best of both worlds would probably be something adjacent to the ‘08 auto bailout with Chrysler where the feds take an ownership stake and pull it off the market, but we’re probably both talking about things that aren’t going to…

In the immortal words of Norm MacDonald:

Great, can’t wait to see which completely indiscernible corporate dipshit they replace him with. I’m sure he will find some new part of the process of making an airplane to spinoff to an “independent contractor” consisting of former Boeing employees, but now with no oversight and limited QC. He will be lauded as a…

This is a good articulation of what I’ve aimlessly referred to as “pound-for-pound” pricing on EV’s. Fact is, we are fighting an uphill battle until an EV being the same price as an equivalent ICE doesn’t require some kind of qualifier/explanation regarding a tax credit/incentive or cost of ownership.

I think they rated them economically when they first came out, but everyone quickly figured out you really need to baby them to get the good mileage. Like, hyper-mile all the time. 

Sort of begs a question if the 50 grand budget is actually his, or what his vehicle allowance covers. Although with that being said, 50k miles is freaking nuts, and in the territory where it’s probably in the company’s best interests to just buy him a new car every couple of year. I work in an industry with a lot of…

The way how you get around that is you go where people have friends/family picking them up (usually separate from dedicated taxi lanes) and find someone who looks confused/lost. I’m guessing that’s what’s going on here.