Oh the irony of thinking the “think of the snakes” crowd is the one making progress.

Environmentalists: We demand and end to gas cars! Electric vehicles are the future!

You can actually buy one ?

The problem is Elon is not a Liberal, which means he has been cast out of the church of environmentalism and declared a heretic. He also uses non union employees , gasp. Hence the daily hit pieces here.

I remember it! The instant we owned, my brother and I switched from multiplayer 007 to PD because it was the same but more betterer.

It’s a shame it isn’t as well remembered.

What’s amazing is that Tesla is doing something the author is allegedly in favor of: building electric cars so we stop burning fuel and ruining the environment.

You mentioned snow, which has long been a pet peeve of mine too. One time I was passed by an 18-wheeler just absolutely spewing snow everywhere from its roof (easily a foot-thick layer up there), creating serious hazard for everyone left in its wake. The moment when I saw it again a few miles down the road, having…

There is ALWAYS shit flying off trucks here in San Diego.  Every damn day there is a ladder or a wood in the middle of the freeway bringing traffic to a halt.  If the police just ticket the unsafe shit they see, they could self-fund the next decade.  Shit not tied down and blacked out tail lights just to start.

It’s a Mitsubishi Outlander.  Replacing the windshield may total the thing.

A 4x8 sheet of plywood flew off a trailer in front of me a couple of years ago but I was able to dodge it.

For all the bullshit reasons cops pull people over, I wish they’d stop more folks with dangerous loads like this. I’ve seen old pickup trucks around here loaded with, and I’m not joking, about 20 full-size wooden pallets. Rear end of the trucks nearly dragging the ground with the damn things stacked 10 high and two…

Who’s been here long enough to remember when Jalopnik could write an article with less than 20 swipes at America, American culture, American business, capitalism, Republicans, or free enterprise? I’m disappointed you didn’t point out that Tesla and cars and Musk are racist.

No, not Target. But let’s just say as soon as their troubles started brewing, I had a good idea why and I definitely knew how it was going to end.

Ooo, was one of them Target? Once they ran, there was tons of reporting that was basically exactly what you described: run at a distance by US managers, no attention paid to local supply chain, etc.

Windshield! That’s a down payment on a new car!

5th gear: Fun fact, this whole idea of placing an order for a thing that doesn’t exist yet to make someone produce it is how we wound up with the 737MAX, a plane with way bigger engines than a 737 was ever supposed to have and a computer that can’t figure out how to keep it from stalling on approach.

1st gear: Tesla is already an odd corporate animal unto itself but it repeats what is a general US business phenomenon and in my opinion something of a repeating mistake. I’ve worked for three US firms, each time setting up their first leg into Canada. Without fail, these businesses just plunked themselves down and…

If they can keep the board, they can easily pay for a new windshield! /s

Well, they don’t like them, anymore.

Turns out that Germany doesn’t like people who build cults of personality and disregard laws as a matter of company policy. I wonder why?