So who is going to foot the bill for the astronomical cost of installing charging stations EVERYWHERE?

I very well may be wrong, but isn’t the only real difference between a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle and battery powered vehicle how the electricity gets made or stored? They’re both still an EV? The drive trains and systems all work on the electricity they are receiving, it’s just the matter of how.

Exactly. It seems Just backwards that all the manufacturers are going Ham on BEVs, when there isn’t even a common charging standard for them yet. (Good luck finding a level 3 charger if you’re in anything other than a tesla)

Everyone else is chasing the 2% of the US market share while Toyota will continue to dominate. Toyota and Honda will slip into EVs when they are economically viable, and when they are actually what people want to buy. EVs aren’t that complex. They won’t be behind.

1st: Honda and Toyota have had the best approach/response to the EV shift. Everyone else is running their employees ragged and jeopardizing other areas of business just to catch up to Tesla. Source: am employee at one of said companies.

They don’t have to prove a damn thing to arrest you.  

Interfering with law enforcement. Denying the government use of an official government device.

Legally when they attach it to your car you can do whatever the fuck you want with it. Throw it in a ditch, a lampost, smash it... doesn’t matter. About the only thing you might actually get in trouble for is selling it or sticking it on another vehicle (because then you’d be initiating tracking on someone else).

I treat the police like feral animals. Imagine opening a cage with a grizzly bear in it. Maybe it’ll attack your problems, but maybe it’ll attack you. You never know what it’ll decide to go after, but if you’re going to open the cage, be prepared for the consequences.

It’s easy compared to every other marque with semi-autonomous features that put in place more stringent safeguards. You can’t idiot-proof everything, but you can make it so they have to really try to hurt themselves. It’d be far harder to defeat an eyeball tracking camera, or even a seat sensor. Pulling this trick…

The flip side is that Elon Musk has explicitly encouraged the misuse of Autopilot and FSD by flat-out lying about their capabilities. He has claimed that the cars have “all the hardware needed for self-driving,” as if this is a meaningful statement. He’s claimed a Tesla with FSD could do an autonomous cross-country…

The test isn’t about safety or whatever.

I tend to agree, and I’ve owned a few STI’s, including a RHD STI II. THey were great hero cars in their day. I still can’t imagine getting excited enough about a 22B to spend that kind of cash. It’s special, but everything other than the drivetrain on these old Subaru’s is so low grade and blah. I would spend that…

I understand that the press release and marketing copy talks up the Subaru AWD thing, but then you wrote this:

Not traditional advertising, no. But you know how you tell the difference between a corporate shill and a Tesla fan boy? The shills are smart enough to take the money and spend it on something else. 

How do you write a “no one’s in the driver’s seat” article without addressing the most important question?!

Most lithium batteries don’t require external oxygen to burn, they have the oxidizer right inside the cell, that’s one of the reasons they are so dangerous. The only way to keep them from re-igniting is to take away all of the heat to prevent re-ignition and also make sure there are no internal shorts in any of the…

Tesla is the only car company in the world selling vehicles on the basis of having “Full self Driving” capability, which exists literally nowhere.

Found the cultist! 

I know this is my answer for most things and I get that it’s a bit beaten up but it’ll still outlive us all.....Toyota Matrix.