I think it’s mostly business reasons. The profit margin is too tight. Batteries are too expensive and there aren’t enough of them to handle higher sales volumes. The dealer network doesn’t want to sell them due to the low margins and way lower need for services (no lucrative oil changes for example). GM is beholden to…

Fair, but if gas prices jump anytime in the near future, and I’m sure they will at some point, suddenly everyone will want sedans. 

Maybe we should focus more on finding their parents. These kids are still pretty young, and while I certainly hold them responsible for their actions, their parents are also responsible and likely laid the seeds for the hate these kids displayed. 

My Caucasian dad grew up in a race-strained environment. The violence he experienced (dealt and received) only made him more racist. He had to learn in older years (mostly from us kids) to grow beyond that as best he could

Making a safe self-driving car isn’t the hardest part. The hardest part is making sure that car doesn’t frequently stop for no good reason, fail to proceed when it should, or slam on the brakes unexpectedly causing it to be rear-ended by a human driver.

I’m a big proponent of self-driving technology, and until recently felt that it was on the order of five years away or less. I still believe the semi-autonomous tech is going to get very good within that timeframe, but I no longer believe we will see full autonomy on normal roads until much longer.

Lock him up.

You might want to get a jump on ordering one of these... they will become the most popular item in 2019 or 2020.

This. They don’t use chalk anymore where I live, and this equipment will definitely still mark the vehicle as in violation if they detect it on the same street, even if it moved. 

Reminds me of driving in Europe last summer. I was in the slow lane pretty and ended up much in parallel with a car merging onto the freeway. I slowed down for him. But he slowed down too and seemed bewildered by my gesture. I guess over there, everyone expects the driver already on the freeway to take precedence.

He probably thought pulling back on the steering wheel (equivalent to a little left stick down on the Xbox controller) would correct for this. 

...he eventually turns off down a side road, never to be seen again.

What was also impressive is that I could cut and paste this right into Wolfram alpha and get an instant result. Back in the day, entering this on the 48 GX would have required dusting off the manual. 

Nice! It worked.

I was a kid in the ‘70s and would goof around for hours on a digital calculator. Don’t judge me - my parents would not buy me an Atari.

Please share your mathematical formula for the dick shape. I need to see this. 

Well, you don’t have to worry about ME trying this. It’s not the fear of biting it or crashing the car that prevents me. It’s the fact that I dance like shit.  

Maybe. None of us know what really happened, other than what Bloomberg managed to gather and share (possibly with plenty of embellishment by the source or the paper itself). If it really happened like that, it certainly should be thoroughly investigated for OSHA violations and so forth. But it doesn’t point to…

Some of the Silicon Valley companies I’m thinking of (Google, Otto, etc.) have machine shops and they construct prototype vehicles and so forth. It’s not the same as a major production factory, but there are certainly opportunities for dangerous conditions exacerbated by overworked staff.

I agree. There are hundreds of companies in the Bay Area where people work crazy-long hours, drink Red Bull to keep going, walk around like zombies, and make audacious design changes at the eleventh hour. I know a few. This is nothing new.