Ironically they make all of their money from selling oil and gas.

You seem to have faith in the free market at the wholesale level (medallions) but not at the retail level (customers).

“It doesn’t matter a damn how that price is derived, it’s still expensive.”

A medallion is a contract. A driver pays for it and in return the number of taxi drivers is limited by the city. The city is not limiting the number of taxi drivers, so the contract is broken. Cities need to either honor the contract or return fees for the medallion. If wealthy white men drove taxis, the city would…

Yeah, when you’re a small country with a pretty homogenous population that got rich selling dirty fuel to the rest of the world, you can try cool things.

So my takeaway here is that Teslas shit the bed even under the most optimal possible conditions.

“And it’s starting to suggest a future where the oil industry might just be phased out entirely.” Isn’t that what fuels the power plants that produce the electricity?

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People are talking about the 1st gen RAV4 like it was some Humvee beater with solid axles that made the Rubicon trail look like a drive to the corner store. It wasn’t incredibly powerful, and didn’t even have a transfer case. There are plenty of similar SUV’s from that time that people are actually still using for…

My pleasure, that was perhaps the highlight of my winter.

A shop takes in a car they acknowledge was suspicious, and never went to the police until decades later. The shop then gets to keep said vehicle. Sure seems like a shady conflict of interest to me.

Here’s my problem with this incident in particular, and with Musk and Tesla in general: it’s ALWAYS someone else’s fault. I get it, she should not have been looking at her phone. And while there’s an argument to be made that maybe “autopilot” isn’t the best way to characterize this system in its current form, at least…

I’m not a techno-luddite, but when it comes to driving, I prefer an analog hands-on-steering-wheel user experience. We already have autopilot — it’s called a bus (or taxi or uber etc). It seems ludicrous to me that companies are spending so much cash to develop tech that allows you to watch TV while driving.

Drivers are taking their eyes off the road without concerns because they bought a system that says it drives for them.

I thought Nissan had the best website?

My God, it’s like Penthouse for the Tifosi.

Lamborghini.

Nonononono. 924 was specially kept unwanted. So that tuners, yuppies and midlife crisis sufferers wouldn’t buy them. They were for us. To transplant more powerful engines or to enjoy just like they are without driving the price up. Magnus Walker has ruined it all. Fuck him.

I had a 924 as my first car in Highschool!

A well done burger is only acceptable for a smashed burger. I’m willing to live with the risks.