A shoplift mode is a pretty good use for that weird bot. The slider could also indicate how aggressively it throws elbows to compete for a good sale item.

coming form the back seat.

Passengers trying to give directions. “You need to take this left,” they say while you are in the right lane 10 yards away from the intersection, “Then turn right at the street with a green house; I can’t remember the name.”

The actual worst noises are followed by repair bills, but the most frustrating are the noises that just get worse over time without an easy fix. Rattling dash. Heat shield that never does sit properly, even with better rivets. Whistling that isn’t fixed by new weather stripping. Buzzing door vibrations.

As far as the EV-only, the BBB proposal is for EVs and EVs with <2 gallon range-extender tanks. The more typical PHEVs are out. So that is progress.

Yeah, I doubt Ford will do a lot of allocation removal, especially from high-volume dealers.

Assuming that the production ramps up as it is supposed to, a no-sale on these makes more sense than the ones on vehicles that are supposed to have relatively limited production. If a person knows there are increasing deliveries, they’ll likely not pay too much markup for a year-old used one.

Not a joke—he was all for $50/month over $500k lump sum because “passive income.” He came up with the ludicrous use to try to illustrate how passive income works out better, even though it does not. He kept doubling down on “scale.”

Most of this advice still holds up, except for 2 & 5, if a person needs to buy. Right now, buying a new small car is probably better. Buying a used pickup now is rough, and I don’t know how one navigates the benefits of new vs used there.

But if you can afford that car payment, you can save money while paying a lower payment. If you can make more in interest/gains with that money than the interest rate, you are better off with a longer term.

I am miserable just thinking about it. And I’m only 6'1". I know quite a few people who are several inches taller. First thing I do when I sit in a car I might buy is put the driver’s seat where I want it, then sit behind it. I don’t want to sit behind me on most midsize vehicles. A Honda Fit or something? Nope. Not…

Not the best plates, but I kind of like that Idaho puts most of their special plates on the same background as the regular plates. You can get rafting, bicycling, a potato, pets, or so many others, but they all look like Idaho plates.

The big problem I have with the religious plates is that they (usually) take vehicle registration dollars and put them toward religious organizations. I have a problem with the separation of church and state being very important when those orgs don’t want their health insurance to cover birth control or when they want…

No slideshow needed. One page for this plate and we are done.

On the plus side, the author does seem to understand that the person looking at that article is likely to have a short or unfavorable credit history. Because I can’t imagine a situation in which “pay it off as fast as possible” is not just “pay cash for the car,” except if you can’t afford to buy outright and don’t…

Yeah, the winning strategy seems to be to limit availability just before you hit 200k, crank production into overdrive, and sell as many as you can before the credit reduction.

I read that to mean that the people who choose to use it and provide feedback are excited about it. The people who just use it because they need to get places don’t provide feedback. And the people least impressed by the concept probably just find other ways to get places.

If only we had the technology to transport larger groups of people, perhaps in linked carriers, from one stop to the next in a loop. Maybe we could use some sort of guiderail to ensure that it goes where it is supposed to. But I guess that technology is well beyond us, so we will have to put cars into narrow tunnels…

I just hope that the driver was still paid extra. I'd really like a follow-up about that.

I offered Pole Position, because that was such a notable arcade game. Guess this was not for the old games.