I mean, I hope Lucid succeeds, but they’ve delivered a few hundred cars so far and they’re certainly not making a profit.

Those weren’t spotted lanternflies; they don’t have caterpillars. Young spotted lanternflies are weird black spider-frog things with white spots.

They’re native to North America.

The Japanese maple is invasive too - would be great to replace it with a native species.

The picture shows the adult spotted lanternfly, but in earlier phases they are mostly black with white spots and have no wings.

PennDOT spends far too much money on freeway expansion for a state with a static population. They don’t need more money, they need to spend it better.

Didn’t realize every comment that pissed me off in here was from you. Not sure what to tell you if you don’t think other countries have enforcement.

How are we going to improve the drivers without enforcement? We just spent two years with people refusing to put a little thing over their noses and refusing to get a free shot to help save themselves and their loved ones, and you think an education campaign is going to get people to stop driving their F350s in school…

Enforcement cameras only hurt people breaking the law.

Speed is a huge factor in whether a pedestrian dies. So is car shape - those “aggressive” frontends are skull-crushers. We need a lot of things to change:

I put mine on to move the car a foot. If you do it every time, even when it’s stupid, you’ll never forget.

He’s not going to get a fancy new commuter and leave the family with the 2010 Mazda. That’s just not how it works.

EV for commuter, Pacifica Hybrid for family car - doubles as the roadtrip king.

I love them, but my wife is not big on them for similar reasons.

Absolutely. Worth it for the sliding doors alone, and though we just have 3 kids and could fit in a five-seater, being able to pick up a relative with the whole family in the car comes up a lot.

Yeah, some of these are a little weird. Losing a body part would be endlessly horrifying, and having your dominant hand nonfunctional is pretty rough. I had a few days of it thanks to a surgery on my arm* and it would be awful to have it be forever. That said, I just took care of using the bathroom with my left hand.

My Pacifica Hybrid’s autopark system is unbelievably good, both parallel and perpendicular.

You’re telling me.

This seems like a great candidate for an electromod. Original drivetrain is both crap and rare. Combine with a salvage Fiat 500e and you’ve got something interesting.

Great news, you can buy a base Nissan Leaf today. (The $20k is after the tax credit).