so if someone happened to go out and make all of those spots a little further apart... of if you prefer the chaotic evil side closer to each other...

Towing companies are predatory AF. As someone who’s been living in apartments with terrible parking the last few years, towing companies have contracts with apartment complexes. They’ll lurk in the parking lots, looking to tow peoples cars to rack up the fees. I had my car towed without a warning a couple of years…

seriously, with all the laws in california to regulate a bunch of dumb shit, they forgot to make some to regulate the towing business.

Reminds me of good ‘ole Lincoln Towing in Chicago. Somehow still in business after 50+ years of breaking the law. They did get shut down for a year or so after a string of lawsuits, one of them for towing a ComEd/Comcast (or similar utility) boom truck with a worker still in the bucket. Guy fell and got pretty…

Next to dealerships

Permanently barred and five years are two different things.

I hope both parties actually see prison time AND get sued into poverty. Towing companies are the shadiest companies around.

How funny would it be if the Feds just towed and impounded their trucks before the raid.

The towing concession in San Francisco has always been vipers nest of corruption. Before Specialty towing there was City Tow which practiced the same sleazy shake down scams. The problem starts higher up with how the city puts contract services out to bid and then has weak oversight. The city administrators probably…

Good. Give them the max.

Pressurized gas chamber bomb?

That’s pretty much exactly where I landed. My current commuter isn’t costing me that much to own and operate. An EV would actually cost me more to own and operate at this point in time. 

You get what you pay for. Coincidentally, Jalopnik, like most of the internet, is free.

Thermobaric bomb?

Tesla Service Department: The good news is, you no longer have to worry about your windscreen or hood detaching at highway speeds because your car just exploded.

Obviously Toyota isn’t going to release a hydrogen-powered car with a tank that can just explode when a Mirai driver inevitably crashes their car.

Not a hydrogen bomb, that’s a C4 bomb with hydrogen in the middle of it. Still, that’s wild.

My car, a 1st gen Highlander Hybrid, is paid off and works pretty well. I’ll keep driving it either until the end of it’s life or (more likely) until my kids reach driving age—they can use it as cheap transportation once they hit 16 & I’ll get a different car.

Plus I can easily keep two Jerry cans of gas in my garage. Not so easy to have a couple buckets of electricity.

Hey, that’ll tow two jet skis on a PWC trailer.