Except when I’m out of gas far from home, in a sketch part of town at 2AM, to remedy the sitch takes about 4 mins in a lighted, monitored, ostensibly safe-ish location for my ICE. EV experience is likely quite different, and certainly so for the time needed to juice up.  That needs to change to really push EVs over…

Maybe if companies actually started offering EVs that buyers want to swap their hard earned cash for, they may start seeing their electric car sales rise.

Maybe it’s a childhood PTSD thing, but whenever I hear anything from Peter, Paul & Mary, I feel the uncontrollable urge to throw chairs and punches.

Ain’t no law when your driving to the claw. 

I don’t see how this could be a civil matter. This wasn’t a group of people trying to protect a friend or retaliate against it for hurting someone, it was a mob of opportunistic assholes who wanted to break and smash something.  It could be an autonomous car or it could be the storefront of a store.  There was no…

Good Lord, imagine what could have happened if these things were driving around in Philly?!

In Texas, test cars for autonomous vehicle startups have also been targeted, showing that tensions between regular people and autonomous vehicles are rising.

Are you high? In what world should we accept egregious vandalism as a “cost of doing business”? If someone ever breaks into your house and shoots you, I assume that’s “cost of owning a home” then? No emergency service involvement right?

Oh yeah, good callout. The CPUC being in bed with the utilities doubles down on the problems. The CPUC may as well be a lobbying group for the utilities—it sure as hell isn’t a consumer advocacy organization.

You are half correct.  Until just very recently, the CPUC was on the side of consumers.  If and when the utilities would approach them for their yearly prices increases, the CPUC would tell them to screw off.  Being publicly traded companies, they reduced costs (maintenance and upgrades) to keep stockholders happy.…

There are already laws on the books. Use them.

I think it’s probably well established by now that these people don’t give an eff about having their faces and misdeeds recorded.

The shit infrastructure for power is because Edison keeps using earnings for increased profit and not for maintenance. This is the reason CA should seize it. They should have seized it after the last bankruptcy vs treating it as “too big to fail” and using tax dollars to bail it out (after taxpayers already paid for a…

The problem with California power companies is that they are publicly traded. As long as they are, they will put shareholder profits above safety and rates will keep getting higher. 

Regardless of who owns it, here we go on the shit infrastructure of delayed maintenance/replacement needed for A LOT of infrastructure here in the US.

This is a bunch of morons acting as social misfits. I live in Los Angeles and drive in Los Angeles, and I can tell you the most courteous and safe driving is being done by Waymo. The average Los Angeles driver has no understanding of safe driving concepts or common courtesy. I’ve yet to see a Waymo, and I past them…

showing that tensions between regular people morons and autonomous vehicles are rising.

Can anoyone out there do something about the concept of autonomous cars being shoved down our throats? For the average American—IMHO—the convenience is far outweighed by the safety of technology not yet there (I want a human finding a way to avoid a collision, not a computer figuring one is inevitable and deciding…

To paraphrase the brilliant Roy Wood, Why does everything “manly” have to be badass or death-adjacent?

This regressive tax hurts poor people and body shop owners!111!!!!111!!!WTFBBQ