Maybe I’m being hard-line about it, but flooding chunks of *desert* to grow something for export to a country that has their own land and water isn’t cool with me.

Yeah, and it’s gross. I get a 300 something dollar ticket for washing my car, but it’s ok to flood chunks of the desert with precious water, during a drought, and export the resulting cattle feed.

most of *that* alfalfa isn’t headed for use in CA, it’s literally grown for export.

It’s especially obnoxious when you go driving through the desert and see great swaths of desert flooding to grow alfalfa - then learn that alfalfa isn’t even for use here, it’s for China. I can’t wash my car without getting a ticket for water waste, but we can flood literal desert and export the resulting alfalfa and…

If you really don’t like stuff on Jalopnik, just skip the author’s articles from now on. When they pull metrics and see that the author’s not getting click-throughs, the situation will become self-correcting. Just like writers that only make slideshows. Skip the slideshows, consistently - if everyone does it, they’ll…

It’s not whether *I* enjoy Android or iOS - my post was about how the user experience of a low end or extremely carrier customized version of Android does a great job of selling iPhones.

The lowest spec devices would generally be great if they’d just sell them with an older version of the OS, or even the modern one without all the customizations they’re laden with. It’s all the extra grunge that drags the devices down anyways.

Not trying to deny them access to phones, just against vendor customization bloat and the hucking of devices running an OS clearly beyond their ability. Leave them on an older version instead of beating up the low cost end of the spectrum simply to hold marketshare.

Hey, now they’ll work even harder to annoy you into paying for it :|

Would be cool if they released a version for VR, like in BigScreen VR with the wraparound. 

Ha in highschool a friend’s festiva was small enough to fit through the pedestrian gate at the park and we definitely didn’t take advantage of that and drive around on all the walkways ;)

I guess if you had an apartment with only one parking spot you could fit 2 of them nuts to butts in the parking spot.

I would like Android so much more if the only android phones were pixels. The absolute worst thing ever to happen to android was carrier/vendor customizations, and throwing android onto all of the bottom-end/free devices to bump up market share. If everything was a pixel and running pure android, with reasonable…

I had an SRT4 and loved it. Then a neighbors kid got their license, and the dad bought the kid one. Not a smart move, as evidenced by how short a time that car lived.

We need a cool new small car engine. Something neat like that tiny v6 from the mazda mx3. Not that powerful, not super efficient, but man it sounds neat and was kinda fun to drive.

If cities can implement forfeiture clauses for street racers, they can do it for coal rollers too. Remove your DPF and alter your ECU programming to deliberately barf out soot? Buy your car back at auction or watch it get crushed. 

Thats a huge concurrent load. Power companies are already starting to “offer” smart thermostats so they can change your air conditioning and heating temperatures to alleviate load on the grid. One can only imagine they’d want the ability to flip car chargers to trickle or even “off” to alleviate strain on the grids…

A lot of area grids have reliability issues when people run their air conditioning or heat and its nearly impossible to get power companies to invest in their infrastructure. What I worry about is a massive, quick shift to electrics without the grid to support it. Utility companies are probably going to continue to…

I mean... like it or not, I’d drive it if someone tossed me the keys - it looks like a hoot to drive.