Everyone involved should consider getting a life.

This is going to be nearly $65k and struggle to get 300 miles of range. Going to be a big ask for folks to shell out $10k more than they would for a top of the line hybrid Toyota Sienna that gets 37 mpg based on looks alone. I was really looking forward to this...like 5 years ago. Shame it took so long and ended up…

There’s a very easy political metric that will never steer you wrong: if a billionaire likes a candidate, that candidate is bad.

At this point, watching a Wes Anderson film is like following somebody on Instagram that still uses filters.

Eventually trucks will be so big that range won’t matter because you’ll already be in both places at once. 

Sensible take from Toyota. I’m not ready to buy an EV for many of the reasons they cite. EV owners are quick to handwave any criticisms of the current state of the EV market in part because it’s human nature to justify your expensive purchases.

Yet another data point suggesting Suzuki is making a huge mistake by not selling the Jimny here. 

Driving should induce anxiety. It’s incredibly dangerous.

We would do well to stop with the modifiers. It’s just capitalism. Whatever fairytale we’ve been told about how it’s supposed to work, this is actually how it works. It necessarily concentrates power and wealth which lead to all sorts of distortions. Aside from which, the supposed benefit of capitalism, its ability to…

Yeah, the successful state housing model seems to be social housing, which differs from public housing in that it isn’t an attempt to warehouse all the poor people in the same building. It uses sliding scale rents on appealing housing so that wealthier people cross-subsidize their less well-off neighbors. Works all…

Can’t imagine why anyone would want to track a damn Model S, but I can imagine why fools with more money than sense would buy this to improve their stoplight to stoplight times. RIP pedestrians.

It’s the same amount of money. 

OK, so that is the revenue foregone by not charging a fare, which means the residents of Hamburg (and tourists, which should be exempt from free fares) already pay that much every year. So, instead of charging them at the point of service, make fares free and raise the taxes progressively such that the wealthy pay a…

I’m not saying it’s a huge factor, but as someone who used to ride the bus regularly, it’s a factor. Delays because someone’s card won’t swipe, or someone doesn’t have exact change, etc happen all the time. The cumulative effect is not nothing.

Would love to see the source of the numbers you’re using. Cost estimates are generally rife with funny business depending on the angle. Are the numbers you are citing revenue foregone or costs?

That’s because something like 98% of French workers operate under a collectively bargained contract. They are organized. US workers are not and would rather spend their time complaining about unions while their bosses screw them over. Much easier to mass demonstrate when the workers are organized.

At some point people get tired of having their supposed saviors hold a Republican gun to their head while doing nothing for them.

I know what the solution is, and it’ll never happen here: decommodify housing (and food, water, healthcare). It’s a sign of how expertly propagandized Americans are that capitalism’s primary virtue is supposed to be the efficient allocation of resources, it very clearly fails in all sorts of sectors to do so, and…

To some degree, making it free can improve service as it cuts out the time spent procuring fares or arguing about them when someone doesn’t have the right amount.

Conversely, make public transit free and raise income taxes by a tiny fraction to pay for it. Trying to implement sliding-scale fares is a bureaucratic nightmare. Clawing back on the tax side is way easier. Poor people don’t pay income taxes so the move avoids regressivity.