On a 72 month loan, you’re probably underwater for about 48-54 months.

The bigger problem it seems is people who take out a 72 month loan (or longer) and then insist on buying another car as soon as the loan is paid off. An average car will last 15-16 years (and that is even accounting for accidents totalling them,…

It’s worse than that - now NHTSA is saying that some of the replacements they did make are subject to the same damned problem, and need to be recalled. Why? Because their fix in many cases was to add dessicant, not to switch to a safe propellant.

The VW one leads to deaths, too - just much harder to track. That’s why externalities are so hard to deal with in the economic world. We have hard evidence of the effect of pollution on health, but getting people to agree to charge the pollution generators for that cost is damned near impossible - and if you’re just…

What make/model do you have that is finally getting fixed?

“Seriously, if you have a recall notice, go get it taken care of.”

THEN GIVE ME THE FREAKING PARTS!

Seriously - most cars under recall don’t even have parts available for the repair. 

My keys have never bricked themselves.

OTOH, I’ve had a cell phone that did.

Not a CVN. It’ll be a coal powered steamer. He LOVES antiquated technology.

Of those who had a ship named after them, all were either founding fathers or had served in the military except for Martin Van Buren, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt. The latter two at least led the nation through a world war.

So realistically, there is no hope for Trump to have a ship named after him unless he…

Oh, Canada - where people break the laws, many of us agree that its all rather ludicrous the effort they put into finding the guy, and yet they all come out sounding like perfectly reasonable people, talking about how nice and polite the police were, etc...

HAHAHAHAHAHA...

You clearly don’t know Mike Brown.

It’s laughable because it will never happen, but it should. Why are we paying a ~55 man roster $160 million a year instead of $128 million a year with the remaining $32 million going to fully pay for the stadium, that key part of their overall operation?

(btw, I think the owners should take a cut, too - just showing…

If Detroit were smart, they would have saved the money from this to instead look to attract Amazon’s new headquarters - they have the land easily obtainable at the urban core, good availability for flights (Seattle and Detroit are both Delta hubs), easy highway access, etc....

I hate these ludicrous sports subsidies. About 1/6th of my county’s budget goes to pay for a pro football stadium that is used 10 times per year for a couple hours, doesn’t significantly stimulate business in the area, and sits empty the rest of the time. In the meantime, child protective services has seen its budget…

“Over the last several decades, auto factories have shuttered, only one General Motors plant on the border of Hamtramck remains.”

This story keeps getting repeated, but the auto factories were almost all entirely outside of the city to begin with. The city itself was never filled with auto factories. 

I don’t doubt that they have cut back some. But still, from my experience, they seem padded when I can easily beat that time and I’m not exactly an expert mechanic. Heck, I can easily beat book time for changing a strut on the old Camry I had, and that includes cutting off the rusted out sway bar link with a…

1) You’ve improperly assumed in your equations in the first case that acceleration will be constant. The acceleration of gravity is constant, but the acceleration of the body (the Prius) isn’t, so you can’t simply substitute v=a*t in for the drag force.

2) The whole drag force = 0.5 rho* A * Cd * V^2 equation is a…

In my experience, I’ve never had a job take me longer than the book time even the very first time I did that job, unless it was because I stopped and took lots of breaks and counted that in my time.

And I don’t have access to anywhere near the amount of tools a true tech would have. Virtually everything I do is done…

I don’t see a reason to change if the # of hours the job takes in the book is reasonable. Too often I see the time is inflated, and the mechanics even admit as much in their complaints. If they can do 10 hours of work by the book in 8 hours, they get paid for 10 hours. If they switch this to actual hours worked,…

3rd: “but as Reuters notes it comes at a less than opportune time for these automakers”

On the contrary - when your sales plummet and you have oversupply, that’s when you’re looking at the most opportune time to close a plant.

“ They also have the same pricing as our existing Superchargers, which is far cheaper than the cost of gasoline.”

Not necessarily. If you,get hit with an idle fee, it can quickly exceed the cost of gas.