Uh-huh. That “minimum wage jobs is better than no jobs” argument you’re making hasn’t been bearing fruit for decades now.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Really?!?

Massive amounts of unemployment among men is usually a recipe for disaster, if history has taught me anything. Things tend to go downhill.

I don’t think people really grasp how much automation has already happened. 

Two words, Basic Income. There is no way around the fact that in the future a large amount of the population will not be able to have jobs due to automation there is also A way to handle this you give every person a fixed income call it $1500 (no taxes) a month that they can “get by” on no obviously this would…

I don’t think people really grasp just how disruptive automation is going to be. There are going to be giant, giant swaths of the public that will be unemployed and unemployable because it will be cheaper and easier to have robots do their jobs than people, and those newly unemployed folks won’t have the skills to…

Musk is not nuts - at least, not for believing he can sell half a million Model 3s.

Why not a sedan? People are not avoiding sedans.. Manufacturers created their own self fulfilling prophecy by letting their sedans go static, or continue to suck, while touting the latest SUV crap to people that really need a station wagon.

Logistics aside, wouldn’t you benefit from an efficient vehicle for the 90% of time (that you own), with the occasional rental for when you like to go on road trips?

I bought a mustang because it’s fun to drive, i love the looks, and I get great gas mileage on my commute (ecoboost). I didn’t buy it for the me too factor, I just like the car and it ticked all the boxes for me.

Oh, they test. They test for a pulse and send you on your way.

Has the US stopped testing for licences since I got mine? This fool obviously just walked in and bought his (the inattentive guy, not the poor Civic owner)

It knocked his rear griddle loose!

Oh I agree, it is just funny because we both have a ‘07 but I have way more miles. The big issue is I have a Toyota and he has a Pontiac, you can take a guess at which one has required more repairs in the past 6 months. My wife and I just got her a car so I am trying to keep it to one payment at a time, plus my car…

This. Chances are that your new-ish car is still fine and will continue to be fine for a while. We’re mostly past the era of terrible cars, and even the crappiest new car will get to 150k miles without too many issues.

The magic pill to being underwater? Keep the car you don’t like anymore and you wanted to trade in, keep paying down the loan, and eventually you will have paid off the note. It is called being a responsible adult.

too true... people don’t think about 90% of their use and buy a car that they might need 10% of the time. Need a truck to occasional buy a TV or something. Buy it online and have it shipped for free. Need a SUV to put a bike on the back to exercise, just ride the damn bike. Need AWD for that one snowboard trip of…

I used to sell cars; mostly Honda but I dabbled in Nissan for a bit.

Try telling that to a someone who says they need a big truck, for all that stuff they need to bring with them to work. Or needs the really tall and really ‘safe’ SUV that gets 9mpg.

The best way to fix an underwater loan is to learn from it, so it only happens once.