Proof of the rigged system - after all that Blackwater did, a few name changes, splits, redefinitions, etc, and the same people who got rich off of being murderous mercenaries are still getting rich off of it.

Well that would make more sense, then... couldn’t imagine jumping straight onto Fuller to get to central. Realistically, they could probably build in a golf-cart path of sorts between Lurie and the research complex and give the thing essentially its own dedicated “road” that would cross the existing streets here and…

“Two fully autonomous, 15-passenger electric shuttles will take students back and forth from the school’s North and Central campuses... It would run on University roads...”

Not sure which bias hits me more here:

1) Simply that CEOs are often total assholes

2) Ridesharing companies have generally been founded by libertarian types, who far too often tend to be sociopathic assholes.

I’m sure they do know something I don’t.

I’m also sure that they’ve never been immune absurd political plays within the company. Such as one guy holds the manufacturing budget, one holds the logistics budget. Manufacturing guy decides centralized production is cheapest for his budget and makes him look best and pushes…

Hopefully in 1309 days, 23 hours, 45 minutes, and 33 seconds.

Not that I’m counting.

Honestly, there’s no way that making the car in China and shipping it to the US will be cheaper than making it in Mexico and shipping it to the US. Shipping costs will greatly exceed labor savings (and in some chinese cities, labor costs are actually no cheaper than in the US nowadays)

Of course Tesla should open up their charging network. They desperately need cash, and its an available revenue stream if they want to take advantage of it.

“In all seriousness, most of that “cargo” space crossovers claim, cannot actually be used safely. The top of the back seat is the actual usable cargo area, beyond that is dangerous if there are kids in the back.”

+1

I wish more people would realize this. They see the specs for huge cargo volume and think, “hey, that’s…

“You literally can do the EXACT SAME THING in a minivan but somehow its okay to do, or claim in a minivan? You are making things up again.”

Except if you take the measurements off the minivan, you’ll find more depth to the cargo space behind the rear seat than in the crossover. It isn’t that it is ok to do in a…

Sometimes, yes, the sedan is more efficient than a platform-sharing crossover. The crossover often has more cargo space listed, but if you measure actual cargo volume where you could safely put it (behind and below the top of the back seat), you often get a fair bit less space than in the sedan variant of the…

NOT THE TRAX! :)

There is near no space in the trunk, and next to none in the backseat.

1st:

Did anyone who bought a Trax test drive it first? They are AWFUL vehicles. Truly horrifically bad by modern standards.

Airbus has never had to care too much about the practicality and profitability of a product - they’ll just get a bailout if needed. See: Airbus A380

Finding the resources to complete the redesign, yes, I agree with you.

Finding the production capacity to fix them all in short order? Ridiculously hard. To compare to the aerospace industry, imagine if you found out that all the APUs built for every nearly commercial aircraft assembled in the past 20 years was…

I think the key thing here is that even if they LOOK identical from the outside, that doesn’t mean they are identical. The driver’s side airbag assembly for the 2004 MPV and the 2004 Mazda6 have different part numbers, and they don’t have interchangeable airbags according to the sources I see. Odds are that’s because…

1) The replacement airbags have to be designed and certified (the easy part).

2) Then the suppliers have to build them (the hard part). You have ~1.5x as many cars affected by this as are built in a single year. There’s not enough spare production capacity to get more than a 20-25% boost at most auto parts plants,…

I don’t really consider that good news. The consumer gets protection for now, but the automakers are now eating the cost rather than the party that should be liable, and that’s going to translate to higher costs for consumers.

whether the steering wheel is the same doesn’t really matter - its what propellant was used in the airbag. You could easily have the same steering wheel design but different airbag propellant (The 6 and MPV will almost certainly have different airbag designs, at least in shape if nothing else).

Consider the old Camry I…

1st:

Getting that recall repair done would be nice, but thanks to Takata’s coverup (and aid from other car companies who knew about it, too), my Ford still has no ETA for replacement airbag availability.

Sad thing is that they were profitable through much of this mess. The judgement and recall costs would make them…