I did! But they had no record, so I assumed it’s not done, though it’s possible it was done by a non-dealer and reimbursed. That’s why I’m planning on just doing the repair.

Imagine if the industry had spent the last decade developing a modern sales model that didn’t require hours of in-person up-selling and paperwork, instead of lobbying for legislation that required it. 

He promised he’d sell it, but he’s also trying to social distance. The price keeps people six feet or further away.

“Its all Rolls Royce”, Joe Isuzu

Oh okay you just don’t know how Kinja works. That’s fine.

Gotta be some kind of art thing. I have nothing else to add, so here’s a different art thing:

If the idea that “I don’t need to worry for X reason,” has crossed your mind in any real way, then you are either insanely ignorant, or a level of selfish and solipsistic I have trouble processing.

How many people in our country have preexisting conditions, are smokers, and/or are obese?

I’ll be surprised if self-driving cars aren’t the norm by about 2050. But I also don’t expect them to exist any sooner than 2040. 

We will spend 100 trillion dollars on nonfunctional autonomous cars before we ever build out more normal, non-autonomous trains. Suggesting we build trains is up there with suggesting we possibly maybe end our War With Eurasia or such.

Automated rail systems. That’s something I’ve heard nothing about that makes complete sense. The complexity and safety concerns would considerably less and easier to manage and it has a minimal human staff as it is today.  It’s not like a train needs to be able to react/stop on a dime - it couldn’t if it wanted to.

Dedicated roadways for containers of freight and other goods effectively ARE railroads. All you’re doing is putting a locomotive on each container instead of stringing them together.

“Rail is really the first system that should be able to go fully autonomous.”

Rail is really the first system that should be able to go fully autonomous.

This is pretty much what I’ve said from the start.  If you can’t protect for every situation in an environment, you have to control the environment instead.  Ports have been largely autonomous for years, but that’s because there’s a big fence around where the AVs operate, and if anyone opens the gate to that fence the…

There are already autonomous rail systems and have been for decades at airports like Orlando.

1) A train has to service itself all the infrastructure from point A to point B. A plane just has to service itself and two airports. 2) The train experience (in the US) is so miserable that demand is much lower. Empty trains charge more for tickets.

I think rail could shine with autonomous control. One thing I still don’t understand, though, is how the hell does a train ticket cost 30% MORE than flying? Slower, less convenient and more expensive? There is little upside.

I think the song captures such a strong sense of intimacy, but through a lens of sheer corporality rather than sexuality. The way she describes the partner’s body as somewhere to rest, and the “drawing graffiti” describes a strong knowledge of that body, an intimacy grounded in repetition and closeness, but also…