“Attention thieves: Manual transmission!”

He should have Czekaj’d himself before he Wzekaj’d himself.

What most people in the media don’t really seem to get is that the vast majority of riders only care about the plight of the drivers in a completely abstract sense. At the end of the day price wins all and most people aren’t going to pay extra for a service that feels like its trying to be “ethical”. This is doubly…

Which is a better law, because sometimes a slow vehicle needs to pass an even slower vehicle. Which should be fine as long as they get back over once they pass.

It takes 10 years of 15K mi/yr of driving to offset an $8K capital increase vs a 6mpg fuel savings (at $2.4/gal) - NOT factoring taxes and interest (with that factored in, the payback period is longer). That ROI is too long for traditional investment decision standards to accept. The only way to make that work is…

Another factor is that cars, even SUVs, are way more fuel efficient now than 10 years ago, so the perceived price is lower.

I didn’t ignore the externality - I recognize the emissions aspect of this. I just don’t agree it requires government influence. I said it’s a business risk, and I don’t expect the government to limit business risks in a referee capacity. No.

I’m not looking for an internet argument, either. Sorry to hear you got…

I’m not convinced the government needs to serve as a referee to make sure businesses (any business) play fairly. The company needs to decide on its own whether they want to carve a niche that sets them apart from others. Did Subaru want the government to intervene when they decided to go all-AWD? “We’re not going to…

I don’t understand the issue, either. Automakers formed a pact agreeing that more efficiency is good. Ok... Then why does the government need to intervene? Just....do it. It’s not like we need the government to mandate all business decisions. That’d be no different than if a bunch of manufacturers said, “There’s a lot…

And? Its their job to make a more enticing product, competition breeds excellence. If forcing car makers to make cheaper fuel efficient cars is the end goal of removing regulations then so be it, it seems they want to go that way any way. 

And they’re totally free to do that buy purchasing any of the heavily incentivized, discounted, and dust gathering 40mpg cars available from a wide variety of manufacturers, they’re usually the cars gathering dust as people walk right past them to a truck or suv.

What people ‘say’ and what they ‘do’ are not always the same. If there’s actual demand - defined as actual dollars spent - for a product, the market will supply it. If not, Chevy Volt. Regulation does NOTHING to influence demand positively - it can only reduce demand. Simple Econ 101 stuff kids. Need another…

Props for having this level of ondemand bowel control.

I’d been using a piece of PVC pipe, passed down to me from the truck’s previous owner like a sacred talisman, to hold the rear window up when I loaded the rig with groceries...

Shouldve painted it camo

She wasn’t fridged, because she wasn’t killed in order to motivate or upset the hero. Delphine died because she inserted herself into something she wasn’t ready for, as a result of her own actions, other than sleeping with Lorraine. The minute she called Percival, she was fucked. And Lorraine was going to do what she…

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…

Electric cars make sense for people who view their car as a utilitarian tool used to get around, but for those who buy based on styling or functionality of what they can use the car for (towing, hauling) the current electric cars leave much to be desired. If there was an affordable electric truck (even if the range…

That’s hilarious. Many years ago in the early aughts, I was living in Eugene, Oregon, which happens to be a mecca for burned out hippies, white supremacists, and meth-heads.

Multiple flat-nose Porsches came out...