Well, those early adopters can always choose to hang on to the vehicle for longer amount of time to amortize the depreciation. Really, who sells/trades-in a vehicle at one year? That being said, I’d bet that at the 4 or 5 year mark the resale value will be virtually indistinguishable ... especially since with the…

2nd Gear: Autonomous Cars Could Make Car Sales Plummet

Why is it that people think of suits as uncomfortable? Mine are more comfortable than jeans, I think.

“if people don’t know what “ride within yours limits” means, they shouldn’t be riding.”

“answers spanned the spectrum from the default Kawasaki Ninja 250R to the Suzuki SV650. Some said start small and work your way up. Other told me to go mid-size because you’ll be bored with a tiny engine in a few months”

Really? When? Last time I drove over the Bay Bridge a few months ago, I paid in cash at a manned toll booth. Since the vast majority of drivers on California freeways don’t have those toll transponders (don’t recall what they’re called), I kinda doubt what you say. There’d be no way to collect tolls from an actual…

I’m not sure at all what your list actually means with regards to jobs that deserve to die, or as to the base information you seem to be assuming in your statements ... overall, you referenced a handful of obsolete technologies and implied that a lot of “old jobs” died out due to modernization ... and your list is…

Does anyone know why on god’s green earth was the back end of that Neon jacked up all sky high like that? I assume that was as configured from the factory, but it’s really really really stupid looking.

can you cite a source? <snip> I can’t find anywhere that says a 1980 car is subject the 1980 smog rules.

Or you could live in a state that isn’t California.

Ummm ... you mean this part? —>

Have you guys never watched any of those “real life cop shows” (specifically, COPS)? Every single episode, without fail, a bulletin or call would go out describing a suspect’s car as “late model dark sedan” ... how the hell can anybody be expected to positively identify the right suspect when that description…

People are reporting stuff. REPORTING STUFF.

Raphael, as a life-long Californian I can confirm your understanding as being wrong, and Doug’s original statement as wrong, and Robert Sorokanich as correct.

the beautiful women with an STD British sports car

“I am in no way implying this girl is “disabled,””

Without any details about these ‘accidents’ we can’t really compare them to any normalized statistics. Were they parking lot bumps with no damage? Were they on the road? Did they contact another vehicle, or a stationary object like a wall or lamp post? I followed the links, all the reports so far have minimal useful…

The term ‘cloud’ to refer to “nebulous” technology services has a rather mundane origin story ... back in Ye Olden Dayes of the 1990’s, a popular graphic that came with Microsoft PowerPoint was a cloud ... and it was often used to represent “something happens here” in technical schematics and presentations such as…

For what it’s worth, WiFi doesn’t mean “wireless internet” ... the ‘wifi’ protocol was just another wireless networking protocol and has nothing *direct* to do with the internet. The technical definition is that ‘WiFi’ means any wireless LAN. Techies and nerds got tired of saying “eye triple ee eight oh two eleven”…

I’d have to go with the theory that this part didn’t fall off a motorcycle directly, but rather fell out of an unsecured box of parts in the back of someone’s overloaded pickup.