Agree to disagree. I like the butch looks, and it is very on-brand for Hummer. I think they’ll sell well, even at that price.

This MBA concurs. Reducing or eliminating the carrying costs of parts sitting around doing “nothing” makes the corporate books look good.  What is missing from their great idea is the risk analysis for delivery failures.  If warehouses are a bad idea then why are they popping up everywhere?

Are you building for resiliency or profit? This quarter’s profits or tomorrow’s profits? Today’s systems don’t give you credit for fixing tomorrow’s problem. You only get penalized for spending the money this quarter. The balance between doing the thing and paying for the thing you need to do is complicated. Kicking…

I don’t know why we call over engineered, overly complicated things a marvel of engineering. KISS

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/us/hitchhiking-robot-safe-in-several-countries-meets-its-end-in-philadelphia.html

Good lord that’s an ugly vehicle. That back end is atrocious, the rear bumper looks like a loading deck they pulled off a U-Haul, “our loading platforms are 4" lower than the competition!"

Neutral: Live in the South, there are more sure signs of Spring than pea shoots. You know it is Spring when the migration of trampolines occurs.

Damn, the irony in this post is strong, I suggest you grab a history book. Government subsidies in fossil fuels and automotive groups, including construction of privately-run fuel distribution points, have historically been one of the spendiest areas when it comes to subsidies, aviation (read defense) and agriculture…

The problem with “just tax the rich people” is that eventually, and far sooner than you think, you run out of other people’s money. The only equitable tax is a consumption tax. If we’re going to pay for “infrastructure” we should start with maintaining and repairing what we already have. Since you’re so concerned…

Being efficient at moving unnecessary pointless bullshit around the world and being among the very worst carbon emitting segments is not an accomplishment, however. The engine’s efficiency is partly due to having ZERO emissions regulation whatsoever. Just belching unburned hydrocarbons, soot and oxides of nitrogen…

Imagine if buying a computer or phone was like that. “Here, I know you just picked out all of the parts and options exactly as you wanted, but now you have to choose one of these local stores that has almost what you want in stock but not exactly, and it might cost slightly different but you really won’t know until…

Let me guess, you’re a dealer? We just want to buy cars from the manufacturers where they’d compete on price against each other in the segment. RAV4 or CR-V would be like Samsung and Apple coming out with their new CUV with price competitiveness.

This is the dark side of Just In Time. We all hear the good things about the process when people talk about it. But does anyone talk about the potential risks?

I’m surprised so much of it is based on hype, and appeasing wall street. The rush to invest in Autonomous, and the promises that we’ll have fully autonomous vehicles by 2021 was incredibly short sighted.

(*Loudly clears throat*) Oh? There’s a semiconductor shortage? I was told by the 45th President of the United States, the “dealmaker” himself Donald Trump that “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” Are you saying that Honest Donald lied to us? Perhaps China is hoarding semiconductors for themselves because of the…

In a couple of years, we will be looking back at this time and think, “yeah, SPAC’s were a bad idea”, while we pick up the ruins of another crashed economy.

1st: This is Jalopnik, no one here buys new cars. 

As a cyclist those things look spooky.

Thank you. I get it but I still don’t get it.

What in the good heavens fuck are those things on the wheels and how the fuck are they even legal? Are they trying to mimic scythed chariots?