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This would be an ideal application for battery swaps. Have the truck roll into a distribution center, swap the battery, load the cargo, and roll out.

As usual, both sides have some truth. Labor times for some warranty repairs are unreasonably low, and that should be addressed.

And mechanics are clearly getting just a small fraction of what the dealership is charging for. I mean overhead is to be expected, but marking up the labor 4x for the customer is absurd.…

Right - two hours by bus where I live can be as little as a 10 minute drive or even a 10 minute walk.

Our mass transit system sucks, because it’s socialist and we can’t have socialism.

Buy a late 90s or early 00s Ford Taurus with the 12V V6 or a Camry of similar age with the I4. You can get either for under $2000. The Camry will run a bit more on price, and the parts are more expensive. The Taurus will be closer to $1000 in decent shape, and parts are ludicrously cheap and plentiful.

Then you’ve…

Serves the fool right.

Unfortunately, not every case ends up without the person driving and texting hurting no one but themselves. I saw the aftermath of such a case this last weekend - truly horrific and completely avoidable, if the $#@!%#%! semi driver hadn’t been on their phone and not paying attention to traffic.

Yes, but this is the most expensive chocolate, vanilla, and birthday cake ice cream ever!

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This should never be allowed as long as China places restrictions on foreign automakers from owning their own operations (or those of chinese makers) in China.

If China opens their market and stops forcing foreign makers to partner with a chinese firm that has a majority stake in operations and can rip…

3rd:

The problem is that Uber/Lyft will cost you well more than renting a car if you have any real amount of driving to do - and as such, taking over the rental industry would mean cutting prices for a service that already is losing money hand over fist for the parent company and paying its workers horrendous wages..

Ube…

Just so everyone is aware - these mpg boosts will but the 2018 F-150 at approximately the fuel economy required in 2025 passed under the Obama admin.

As an engineer, I don’t know many of us that would behave this way.

This is the behavior of a sociopathic libertarian.

If they’re right about the cause (aftermarket modifications), then they’re actually going above and beyond the call of duty by paying to educate people to fix a problem that they caused.

Drivers side is relatively straightforward. Passenger side can be a pain in the rear.

Proactive? NY Times showed Honda knew about the problem for a decade without doing anything about it - well before other manufacturers even started switching to these faulty airbags to keep costs in line with Honda.

1st:

GET ME THE $!@#$$!@#$!^ PARTS AND I’LL GET IT FIXED!

I have one coworker who lives next to the Honda plant in Greensburg, IN, and drives every day to Cincinnati, complaining about the cost of gas. That’s a 58 mile one way trip with OODLES of low-cost land and housing in between.

Heck, I even know someone who lives in Cincinnati and drives to Marysville, OH, every day…

This is why I’m actually in favor of:

1) Setting a low corporate tax rate

2) Setting dividend and capital gains rates on stocks higher than income tax rates, and apply these rates to stock buybacks as well.

It’s a bit backwards from where we are right now, but here’s my logic - give a low tax rate for companies to free…

That’s some serious sprawl - A third lane might be necessary, but I’d also question if adding it would just induce more demand and make sprawl worse. I can’t imagine trying that sort of commute.

We do need to stop and question when we stop subsidizing this inefficient growth - and we have the same issues here in…

Some states have tried a cease-fire on incentives. Missouri and Kansas, for example, called one after companies were just jumping back and forth across the border to constantly be receiving subsidies.

So companies left for other states that would give them subsidies.

What I find obscene and market-distorting about it…

Curious what section of I-55 you’re referring to. Most of the STL area of that I remember is 4-6 lanes in each direction, IIRC... Personally I think its absurd when we get past 4 lanes without a well-built and planned mass transit system.

Overpriced.

Between the two highways, they’re looking at a total of about 35 lane miles of extra highway - or roughly $114 million per extra lane-mile they add. We can’t do a region-wide mass transit system (extensive light rail on abandoned tracks and realigned and massively expanded busing) because it would be too…