I get yelled at for proposing roughly this same theory all the time: You want better policing? Cut the police force in half, leave the payroll the same. See who shows up for the job. 

Similarly, I really hope to own a big floaty american barge from the 70's someday.

Whoops, fair point. Although that kinda takes my whole screed and makes it worse. They bought the company to get in on a “fad”, and then closed it down when it was over.

IMO while the slack memo was tone-deaf, the actual malicious act here is that Cruise was probably a spinoff of GM just for the sake of a stock market bump. They saw the boon of AV development not for the results, but for the publicity of saying you are doing it, and this as a way to cash in. When that bubble pops, or…

That sounds like a great deal. How hard did you have to shop for the <$39k number? Lowest sticker I’ve seen is a hair under $43k. 

I’d amend this to say that “how it drives” doesn’t automatically mean a fun type of driving. It’s ok for car people to have boring anonymous DD’s. They typically just won’t tolerate something screwy like one of those CVT’s that pretends to shift.

Also doesn’t make sense, this guy already left.

Seriously, GM and Ford should not be the *model* for many things, but they at least get this a transition to EV’s had an extended in-between period where you had many of both products. What was this idiot thinking?

I mean, this is like 90% of big CEO’s. It’s not good, but it’s also not unusual.

Yeah, this. For the trucks, GM’s approach to modern emissions reqs was to engineer the ever-loving shit out of the small block. Ford markets the EB’s as the primary motors, but the 5.0's are still there if you want them.

I agree, at the end we are just talking about which is the better of two bad solutions. The NHTSA is apolitical *enough* do its thing regardless of congress and the current admin. IMO the bigger threat now is the supreme court just stripping it of its authority.

Toyota has a really dopey allocation process that does a bunch of bad things (the PHEV’s are impossible to get if you want one), but the only thing it does right is get a good amount of base trims on the lot. LC has a narrower window in terms of trims that are going to eat away at 4R sales on way or another.

I still can’t figure out what the point of the new Land Cruiser was in the first place. The 4Runner was already just a special Prado for the NA market. I don’t really know what they are going for by having both of them in the showroom other than SUV’s for their own sake. 

Right, and also to that end, the DFP article is kinda twisting the IIHS statement that they quoted:

He definitely won’t have a job at the start of next year, but he’ll probably be first man up if (when, probably) a driver really struggles and gets axed over the summer break.

My kingdom for them yo just go “yeah, we ripped all of you morons off! Suck it, dorks!” just for it to be of no material impact. Everything about civil discourse the last several years leads me to believe that’s what would happen.

I’d actually be impressed if I knew how many routes this program was rolled out on (there are 10+ linked articles on this page and I am not going to hunt through each one to find out).

You already do trust your life to a computer when you get on a plane- you just don’t realize it.

These people might have a leg to stand on if the cruise line doesn’t actually have a trip to Antarctica for the value of the refund, but holy shit. Going on a hunger strike over you 8 grand cruise ticket only makes people feel less sorry for you.

Came here for this, wasn’t disappointed.