I don’t think for a second that Toyota is stupid, they have a tendency to lead, not follow and they’ve been leading the hydrogen fuel cell technology market. However, their vision of hydrogen powered cars, while admirable, is going to be the equivilant of Beta Max to the worlds VHS format, if you know tech history.…

I remember watching the Simpson’s once where they went to India and saw a guy turn himself into a pretzel and walk off using his beard. Bart’s comment was “I could do that, but I choose not to”

2nd gear: I think Toyota has it right. Toyota isn’t huge in Europe, but is huge in America. And the EU will be all EV at least a decade before America.

The problem with Infiniti is that it just doesn’t do a single thing better than the other luxury brands. BMWs and Audis are engaging to drive, Mercedes has the cutting-edge tech and brand cache, Lexus is the ultra-reliable one. Infiniti (and Acura) are struggling because they have nothing to differentiate themselves.

The right thing to do, obviously, is re-nationalize GM. All right, I don’t know how that would help in this case in particular, I just feel like it would.

Neutral: Intellectual property must be protected top to bottom. Consumers must respect it, and our highest levels of government must enforce intellectual property laws with vigor. If not, then there is less incentive for innovation and technological progress will slow.

This is important because, in order to move our…

Cool doesn’t work on logic.

Man, you’re doing better than me.  At that temperature, I usually don’t have enough range to even make it out of my yard.

Eh, if Mercedes made a car look like this, power train would be irrelevant too! Although AMG V8 would be nice I’m sure.

Boomers figure they’ll be dead by the time the environment really goes to shit so they don’t care.

Bezos already did that.

2nd, 3rd, and 4th Gear: I can understand why the dealers are jittery about the shift, and this highlights the basic problem with EV adoption: The vast majority of new car buyers are over 50, usually Boomers, and as a cohort, it’s pretty clear said generation doesn’t think anything that might happen past 2030 is really…

Dogecoin?

4th: Cadillac is the marque best suited to go full EV. Their entire point is to build super quiet and comfortable luxury cars. EVs are perfect for that. And despite some recent dabbling, Cadillac has never had a reputation as a driver’s car. Nobody will care about the powertrain switch the way they would with BMW or…

Neutral: Move his company’s HQ to a secret volcano lair? Shave his head and appear in every video carrying a white cat? Reveal that Tesla’s quest for dominance of the EV market also involves an intricate plan in which one day all Tesla vehicles on the road imprison and hold their owners for ransom?

The problem isn’t necessarily the drivers, per se. I’m not versed in Amazon’s pay structure for delivery drivers, but based on what I hear around the Internet, it’s either a per-package pay system, which incentivizes tearing ass between deliveries, or the drivers are allotted a certain amount of time per route based…

1st gear: I’m not cheering for “big bad Amazon,” but this is nothing new. At a bare minimum, most companies have GPS tracking on their fleet vehicles, while a lot already have dash cams. Of all the things to get upset with Amazon about, this is pretty low on the list.

At the end of the day, they broke the law and there are consequences for those actions.

Elon Musk is a genius, but he is also a f*cking sociopath, and it’s about time we start treating him like it the danger to society he is.

Should have named it the Hyundai Automatic Liaison 9000