Ok, increase the the gas guzzler tax on new vehicles. Make new low MPG vehicles more expensive so fuel sipping cars will be more financially attractive; but if you want a new car that chugs gas, just pay to play.

No. A higher gas tax is unfair to the poor.

The median vehicle transaction price in the US is like $33-34K.

My mind is boggled at the comments I’m reading down here. Everything from “he’s an asshole,” to “he doesn’t care about his kids safety.”

What. The. Fuck. Are you people serious?!

1. The kids seem to be having fun. Hell, I’d love to try this challenge. I dunno any kid that wouldn’t find this amusing.

2. The dad seems to…

This is really key I think. BMW, and other traditional ICE manufacturers, don’t NEED an EV. They’ll mess with them, because they want to have something credible ready once the parameters and market for EVs shakes out, and there is real mass demand. No need for them to be pioneers right now, the likes of Tesla can…

This is simply not true.

TESLA is smarter than everyone else (by a wide margin). Amazing and revolutionary too. EVERYONE KNOWS THIS!

There are plenty of electric-only cars that aren’t doing well (Smart Car, Nissan Leaf, Chevy Spark), but that doesn’t define the EV/Hybrid segment.

The idea of executives “unwilling to plough more resources into electric cars until i3 sales improve and there is a clearer business case for such investment” strikes me as pretty...well, stupid.

A BMW badge?

Tech, shmech, they build cars, either they can make money building and selling cars or they can’t. This “it’s a growth stock, they’re spending on R&D” has just gotten old.

“The one who thinks his Mustang is special.”

I’ll give you a couple of things:

Actually, after the initial furor, and in the years following the scandal, it was pretty conclusively proven that Toyota was not at fault, and that the fatalities were either due to people mistaking the gas pedal for the brake (Malcolm Gladwell had a podcast featured on this site about that recently, IIRC), or the…

The juror saying directly that she was hoping for one specific outcome is somewhat disturbing to me.

Except instead of making the engines better, the engineers simply design them to pass the laws. This is not the right way to do this and you’d decrease emissions by a much greater amount if you GAVE THE CONSUMER A REASON TO BUY AN ECONOMICAL CAR. Forcing the car companies to build cars that no one wants or likes is…

I agree, but we can’t forget who bears that cost. It all comes back to the consumer and the tax payer.

Furthermore, filtering is legal in most countries. This isn’t some radical new measure that California is forcing upon its 4-wheeled drivers. It’s finally catching up to safety measures in place around the word.

What if you always checked your mirrors before leaving a lane in other states too?