Don’t forget they’re also fighting automation which makes our ports less efficient and our economy inefficient. It also potentially sets us up for more supply side constraints at ports like we had over the past couple years. From what I understand, our ports are already quite inefficient compared to other major…

I get you are all pro-Union here, but....
There is an argument against ‘paying them what they are worth’ when a robot can do it cheaper in the long run. Have the longshoremen and stevedores (I think I got that right) made themselves 61.5% more productive? Maybe 30.75% more productive and 30.75% safer?
If not, then why…

Got an offer for 50% pay increase, crying about not getting 61.5%, meanwhile most Americans are lucky if they get more than a single digit increase in pay each year, which will be wiped out as prices increase due to the strike.

I’m unclear if you understand that this is for manufacturing crucibles. Crucibles aren’t “consumed” in the production of silicon wafers. They aren’t single-use items. Current foundries will continue to produce silicon wafers.

How are these gonna cope in the rust belt too? Since wet salty roads are a feature of about half the year here?

Car dealerships must be happy to have another chance/excuse at the adjusted market markups in the future.

First rule of oceanography is: no steel is stainless.

I have a 120 gallon saltwater fish tank in my house.

I know this article mostly talks about the conductivity of saltwater, but the other thing that needs talked about is that saltwater corrodes EVERYTHING. It’s nuts. You think, “oh, this is stainless, it’s fine”. Nooooope. It’s not.  Nothing is safe.  

If I lived by the…

Good, I generally dislike the idea speed limiters in the first place, or at least ones you can’t disable.  There are plenty of areas where the normal flow of traffic is above the posted limit, in those situations driving the limit is actually MORE dangerous than going with the flow. In Houston, inside the loop 55mph…

The bill defined such systems as a warning if a driver exceeded the posted speed limit by 10 miles per hour, not actively slowing the car against the driver’s will.

the Delivery Center sent Consumer Reports onto the lot to find its own Cybertruck, and when they eventually located it, it needed to be charged, washed and given a software update.

Agreed

This is one bill I’m actually glad he vetoed. Total garbage and was a complete joke.

I really appreciate that first paragraph. I’ve been a Jalopnik fan for over 15 years, but the recent flood of Tesla/Musk-related posts has been pretty disappointing. While I love my Model 3, I’m not a fan of Musk. I do think there’s a way to critique him while still acknowledging that Teslas can be both incredible…

It required “an integrated vehicle system that uses, at minimum, the GPS location of the vehicle compared with a database of posted speed limits”. Who maintains that database? Who ensures that cars continue to receive those data? How quickly do they require those data be updated for road work, etc? It was a…

And beyond that - those numbers are based on about 1,000 people who had some sort of affiliation with this car buying service answering a survey. I’m sure there are a lot of people who are overextended on their car loans, but I’d argue that this survey doesn’t tell us anything meaningful about the overall problem…

6 year, no money down, interest free purchase, 38 months later, maybe just breaking even on the depreciation.

This matches up with the majority of Americans who are have no financial literacy. And how about the poor decision making of buying a new EV that will lose more than 50% of its value in two years instead of leasing and taking advantage of the tax credits.  Have we learned nothing from the past two decades of poor…

Can one of the smart readers explains what the potential repercussions for this would be?

On one hand, I am curious if it will cause a 2008 style chain reaction where a bunch of banks lose money but I don’t think it would put them out of business like Goldman Sachs at this scale? On the other hand, I can also see all…

So, uh, ALL DRIVERS? The statement in the article indicates 31% of FINANCED cars. So not counting people who own outright, drivers who drive someone else’s car (children, spouses) nor perhaps leases, fleet cars, etc. Don’t get me wrong I love this site, but his headline is rather misleading.