Part of the purpose of the zone is specifically to discourage crossing lower Manhattan. There are no expressways down there (look up the LOMEX debacle sometime, and fuck Robert Moses), it’s all surface streets – Canal Street is home to some of the worst traffic I have ever seen anywhere on Earth. It simply isn’t…

This is a really dishonest post. You don’t pay the congestion charge if driving on the West side highway or FDR so you can still use most the bridges and tunnels without a fee.

Welcome to what average means.

Yeah but they’re also a way for skeptics to live firsthand with a partially-electric solution and learn for themselves that the BEV use case is almost certainly fine for their needs.

2) Much of New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Kansas, Arkansas

1. The US average price of a new car is $48k.

A split-fuel market isn’t a bad thing. It gives more flexibility.

This one is also Korean-made, FWIW.

But the AI didn’t create sequenve on its own, unprompted, right? Unless they are lying (which is possible), there was a creative decision made to use AI, in order to get a very specific result. They even say a team tweaked the AI output to get exactly the result they wanted.

AIs are not creative, you’re just throwing real art into a blender and telling them “make me something like that”

Some guy who clicks his mouse 12 times in Adobe thinks generative AI is a dangrous technology sucking the soul out of human art.

I agree that AI shouldn’t be used to emulate the styles of existing artists or to avoid paying human artists for designs, but I don’t see this use as problematic. They’re using an AI generator here because the characteristic fucked-up way that it tends to render human subjects is artistically appropriate to the themes…

That’s not what he’s saying at all. He’s saying at the time they weren’t able to get the vocal quality they desired from the demo recording so George didn’t want to go forward. But with AI, they can isolate Lennon’s vocals and reinterpret it to sound like he was recorded in a studio.  If George could have gotten the…

AI is definitely not the right term here. More like advanced Fourier transforms... But it’s really nothing different than cleaning up other old media; we just now have the tech to do it.

I am honestly wondering if they move the 4Runner down a bit and have that be a more stripped off-roader and the LC then slots in on top of that. So 4Runner from maybe $35k-$50k or so and then the new LC in the $45k-$60k range with the Sequioa on top of that. Or they keep the 4Runner where it is and the LC goes over…

You’re saying the NYPD is corrupt! <clutches pearls>

Did he pay face value of 1 cent per copper penny? Because that is genius. 500,000 full copper pennies are worth $12,500 bucks right now (whereas face value would be $5,000)

I don’t understand any of this. It sounds like ridiculously over-blown drama, from the author, the reviewer, the publisher, and the random people jumping in to “support” one side or the other. Is everyone stuck in a grade school mentality? The author and the publisher should be able to comport themselves like the…

If it doesn’t have 6/7/8 seats, it’s not a proper minivan. This is cool, but it appears to be really just putting sliding doors on a track car, not making a Pacifica awesome. 

Oh you can make it work, but our clients that were new to EVs and looking at our brand were 70 years old on average, and thought it was going to be a switch with no effort at all since all the marketing is just plug in at night and go. This is the generation that will go to a steakhouse and pay for the whole family…