anyone else see this and think “What advantages does this motorcar have over, say, a train. Which I could also afford.”

I love how whenever this happens, the rep from the dealership is always like “This was an inside job!”. Sir, ifyou’re the type of establishment that leaves the keys in your 100k cars, this may not require a vast criminal conspiracy.

A simple Excel calc shows that if I assume that the crash rate is understated (and I think you’ve got a point - it probably is), and apply a 20-fold multiplier (which I used just as a nice big number - it’s probably way too high, and the actual crash numbers are below that 20x number), we end up with a crash rate of 0.…

The math is mostly right, but there’s a lot of funny stuff that goes into statistics like this. You’ve rounded down, but it is 1.57 crashes per person. When extrapolating data like this, it is best not to round, since none of it actually applies to an individual directly. Next, a certain percentage of drivers will…

So I went to the linked NHTSA page, and there are some MAJOR caveats that aren’t mentioned:

1) This is only for accidents that were reported to the police. So if it wasn’t reported, it wasn’t counted.

2) This data is actually for 2020, not 2021. Which, some might remember, had some different driving patterns than…

The surge in the visibility of AI tools like ChatGPT is a good window into the technology and sophistication of self-driving car technology.

If you’ve played with ChatGPT, its good and its fun, but its not a human. It isn’t actually smart in the way that any human is. At least not yet. In the case of ChatGPT, it isn’t…

And there’re some drivers, who are just plain bad and get into some random sh** everytime they go outside.

This was brought up on an episode of The Smoking Tire a month or so ago. Whatever the exact numbers are (don’t have them because verbal medium but I’m sure they’re out there), FSD was getting in to accidents at a rate that equated to a person getting into 3 accidents a year when driving to and from work every day for…

I thought it might have been a workstation connected label maker as well, but nope, I believe it’s one like what you posted.

As an IT person I call bullshit on blaming  the cleaning crew. They should not have had access to that system unless the dealership are idiots about security which would have been their fault anyways.

The recently-fired teenager has already been invited to be the keynote speaker at this year’s CPAC.

“Racially insensitive.” No, that is a hell of a lot more than insensitive, that’s the whole kit and caboodle of straight up fuck-you level racism.

The amount of energy and effort of some people to go to in order to be a flaming asshole never ceases to amaze me. Furthermore, the name of this person should be released to the public so that nobody will ever hire that shithead

 It's not an act

$25 is expensive? Worth every penny in mess avoided, especially with 5L jugs of oil that are a HUGE pain to pour, even on the LubroMoly jugs with the extendable spout.

Well, once upon a time I’d just add a quart at a time and let the “changing” take care of itself.

I saw this supercut of “best asian jokes in Family guy” on FB... I watched part of it. Like, a, it’s obviously all offensive stereotypes and shit. I can’t speak to if some of the writers are of east Asian descent, but it’s hard to imagine so because they “jokes” are clearly just riffs on white people ideas (haha…

If you shut down an ICE car you lose heating and cooling, not to mention depending on the traffic situation it could be really hard on your battery/starter to keep shutting down and starting up 15 times an hour. That said, I’ve definitely shut down my engine in gridlock situations where the weather is nice and…

What he’s worried about is earning his next pay cheque, sorry, “campaign donation”, from his bosses in the fossil fuel industry who are increasingly desperately looking for FUD stories about EVs.

The fears are unfounded. Your colleague ran an article about a grid lock situation where cars got stuck for hours and the EV fared a lot better than gas cars that ran out of gas of the idling: