ICE is inherently diverse, if it burns you can use it (tuning aside). The problem is controlling the byproduct of whatever is burned. Alcohol byproduct is CO2 and water, Diesel is a little more volatile...I still think we should have tried to go this route but I can see why we didn’t lol:

It’s Occam’s Razor in reverse: The most overcomplicated solution, that harms the profits of the fewest archaic industries, is usually the best.

So you only want to read articles that reside inside of your echo chamber? Cool. 

I’m a left-wing scientist and believe global warming is caused by human actions, and that we must stop burning things for power if we want to save the planet.

I think I’ll continue my policy of doing my best to not hit any people, animals or things while driving. 

I keep trying to explain this exact thing to all the cyclists I hit and they just don’t seem to get it. Ungrateful sons of bitches. 

In other news, water is wet and grass is green.  I just saved the government a several million dollar study for something completely obvious.

That one in Michigan is inexcusable. I grew up in rural Michigan (although about an hour west of there) and drove through intersections like this ALL THE TIME. Site lines are incredibly clear because everything is flat farmland so you can see the stop signs coming, and this is a 4-way stop, so every fatal accident is…

1st Gear: CFO is done working in grown-up toys and will move to children’s toys. Ought to be an easy transition. 

Ah, so ultimately someone somewhere is taking too much money for too little work. Understood!

what, 24 hours a day? 

Greed will do that.

If it was bad enough to apparently be damaging vehicles, sounds like there should have been some temporary cover used when not actively being worked on? I’ve seen that done before.

They really refined what Bangle created at this point and then 6 years later just drove it off a cliff (literally thats what BMWs new design ethos looks like)

BMWs from the very late 1990s and into the early 2000s were so damn good in almost every way. Imagine walking into a dealership and choosing from any of the following:

Of course their market share is declining. They basically owned the EV market because they had almost no serious competition until a few years ago. 

I seriously think the new designers at BMW take this era of styling and go “NOW DO THE EXACT OPPOSITE”.....now we get the current hodge-podge mix of angles and lines. 

Strictly on design? I’m not sure how you beat some of the cars coming out of the early 60s. No they weren’t great performers or particularly safe by todays standards. But they looked - great. For my money it would be Jaguar.

1st Gear: They’d better get those cheaper EVs underway, and probably figure out how to either make more energy-dense Lithium batteries or cheaper non-Lithium batteries for them.

skill issue. it’s 2023 stay off the internet till you’ve watched the thing.