I was pleasantly surprised that despite there being a couple thousand passengers and crew on the ship it never really felt crowded, especially after learning to not going to eat during prime dining times. The ships are designed to hide the crowds. We had done Disneyland for a couple days before the cruise with my GF…

It’s worth doing at least once. I’ve been on two, and the problems were minimal. First one was back when Swine Flu broke out and Obama banned travel to Mexico, so we couldn’t get off the ship and spent a day at sea. Second one was a couple years ago, took the GF and her kids since they’d never been on one, oldest kid…

$47K for treating the flu, and Norwegian saying that is normal pricing for this kind of service?  Yet another reason not to travel on a floating petri dish.

Same with the NoVA/DC suburbs.  And they work so well there with massive park and rides at the access roads, bus hubs, employer shuttle buses, and parking garages - all ways to leave the car behind at the freeway you no longer need to drive on.  

Years ago, I was looking to go to UCLA for grad school.  I have extended family in Anaheim so I was staying with them.  I think it was around 40 miles one way.  This was my first solo trip to LA and my first time driving there.  I remember my interview, tour, and meetings started at 10AM.  My family told me to leave…

Chicago has train tracks and stations that run right down the middle of the Dan Ryan expressway that do effectively the same thing.

Biggest mistake I made in LA was booking a hotel room 20 miles away from where I needed to be figuring it was like home and it would take me ~20 minutes to get there...

I like Kia (and Hyundai’s) current design language. Yeah, it kinda seems like something out of Minecraft designed on an 8-bit system, but I like the hard angles and complex shapes they’ve managed to put on what would otherwise be boring commuter cars. Looking forward to this!

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.

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.

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.

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.