I drive a Mustang. My wife drives an RX350. If I want a fun and exciting driving experience, I’m not looking for it in a midsize people-hauler. The infotainment system absolutely does take some getting used to(hers is a 2018, so it has a little mouse but no touch screen), but once you get used to it it’s fine. The…

I’m on Long Island, and I recently was quoted $10,000 for installation of a Level 2 car charger, much of the cost of which is upgrading not just from a 100 to a 200 amp circuit breaker, but also upgrading 100 to 200 amp service from the overhead power main to the branch line to my house. I’d also have to upgrade the…

Literally everything you said could have applied to leaded gasoline or asbestos insulation.

Counterpoint: Most electric stoves recommend using a dedicated 50 amp breaker. My house was built in 1960 with 60 amp total service; at some point in the 90's it was (poorly) upgraded to a 100 amp breaker so that central air could be added in. My home’s electrical system is not capable of running an electric stove,…

I have an electric front door lock and it’s great never having to use keys ever for anything at all. Keep a car key fob in my pocket, never take it out, punch a code to get in the house. It’s the future!

Has anybody been able to get through 30,000 miles on an Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio without a catastrophic engine failure?

Lexus makes reliable cars that are extremely nice inside and are isolated from the road (which a lot of people like). There’s a huge market for that. 

Rivians rule and it sucks that the company is going to disappear.

The Shoreham plant was supposed to start low power testing in 1986, but then Chernobyl happened, and, that was that.

Yes, correct. And I can’t afford a $63k EV. So I’m wondering who exactly is being impacted by this. 

I live on Long Island, so part of my electric bill every month goes towards paying for the construction of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, which was built between 1973 and 1984 and was decommissioned in 1994 after having never been actived.

I make too much money to qualify for any of the tax credits and I can’t afford a $63k EV. I really wonder how impactful any of this is.

The F-35 has been in development since, at the latest, November of 1996, when the contract for the Joint Strike Fighter development program was entered into. That’s over 26 years. If you haven’t been able to get your flagship STOVL system working in over a quarter of a century, you’ve got bigger problems than just…

Actually, since March 2020 never ended, we’re only in the first quarter of the first year of the 2020's.

I always turn WiFi off when I leave the house. I don't see a need to shut the phone off entirely, so long as I keep it in an RFID blocking case while I'm out and about. 

Everybody that buys these turns them into conversion vans with plush velvet seating and window curtains and etc., so the interior doesn’t need to be up to snuff, but it’s really silly how outdated the exterior looks  until you do your own painting or vinyl wrap on them.

Oh, I always keep the GPS, mobile data, and mobile voice connections on my phone turned off whenever I’m out of my house/office, so there’s nobody tracking my location via my phone’s location, so I wouldn’t be able to use a non-OEM map system regardless.

I have only driven one car with Android Auto or Apple CarPlay: a Chrysler Pacifica rental I had in New Orleans in 2019, and for the 3 days I had it I couldn’t figure out how to make it work so I never ended up connecting my phone to it. Is it useful in any way? 

I tend to agree that having giant screens with all kinds of information on them is a bad idea that’s going to get regulated out of existence, but the big problem is not being able to adjust basic controls by touch. This is the interior on my Mustang. See the seat heater buttons on both sides, with the “heat” button…

This is the reason I feel bad that Ford stopped making the Panther platform cars.