Dual front airbags became mandatory in September 1998.
People were told to keep kids out of the front seats in the late 90s.
Side airbags became far more common in the mid 2000s.
ABS became much more common
ESC became standard on most trucks and SUVs

All sorts of things - and all of these take a few years to phase in and…

No one said it did.

I think you missed the part where he said “across the center divider”... so if you’re doing 171, and there’s another vehicle on the other side poking along at 49, you have a 220 mph closing speed and instant death for everyone involved.

The bolt is ugly. No argument there.

But GM’s reliability on the Volt is actually better than Tesla on the S or X... so not sure you want to compare there.

As for sales, the Bolt isn’t on sale yet, so Bolt+Prius = Prius. And the Prius sales were 1.288 million for 2011-2014 (just 4 years). That’s more than model 3…

So will we need two operators for cars to process all the information? Yes, glass cockpits are clean, but aircraft are built with the concept of two pilots working together and with air traffic control helping in separation so you don’t rear end the plane in front of you while you’re looking down at the glass touch…

HUD via bluetooth on Google Glass? That would make sense from a cost perspective.

The lack of tactile buttons I simply don’t trust, though - no one has come up with a good solution there yet. I don’t think Tesla will be any different. Even when they work, touch screens are obscenely distracting, and voice tech is still…

2nd: If Tesla thinks large numbers of model 3 customers will get the credit, this implies to me that they’re tacitly admitting that Model S and X sales will be soft, combined with plans for very, very rapid scale up in production volumes on the 3 (along with hoping to get it out on time, which they’ve never come close…

This is good advice, but a 6-8 year old car that sells for $8-10k won’t be worth $3k when it is 15-16 years old - it will be worth $1500-2000, tops.

I follow this same basic model when I think about car costs - I generally buy new, then take the cost and depreciate it over 15 years to tell me how much to save up per…

Student loan debt shouldn’t have helped you itemize - that is something that comes off “above the line” on line 33 of your 1040.

Things to itemize would be medical and dental expenses (only that portion above 10% of your adjusted gross income, not counting pre-tax expenses), state and local income or sales taxes (one…

Correct.

The simple way to think of it is that your commute to/from work is not deductible, but all commuting while at work is.

So, for example, I normally work at location A but occasionally I have to start the day at location B for a meeting. The drive from my house to location B is not deductible, just like the drive…

Tom is right - it doesn’t matter if your car is for business or personal use (though if you’re self-employed and have an incorporated business, things can get tricky) - if you bought a car for your work commute, you can deduct any sales tax paid on the car (not other fees, mind you). The one thing to watch out for,…

Hell... this thing was well under $25k and it sure as hell stands out.

Ah... Ohio doesn’t give a flip about giving any subsidies or special treatment, and there’s always the risk that our regressive idiotic governor and legislature decide to penalize you for doing something like buying an EV.

Got the 2300D over Christmas from Amazon for $40. It would be nice to have wifi on it, but at that price, I can’t complain, and it has been flawless....

Got the 2300D over Christmas from Amazon for $40. It would be nice to have wifi on it, but at that price, I can’t…

Sorry, but no way in hell is Trump (or anyone left on the GOP side) better than Hillary.

And I don’t like her one bit.

Except that when they switched from the Navigator/Expedition to the Focus, they completely gutted the plant. The tooling for the Nav/Ex was not flexible, whereas what they put in for the Focus *is*. Some pieces need to be changed, but shockingly little.

Except that their US plants are almost entirely flexible at this point. It won’t be hard for them to switch from the Ranger back to the Focus.

Who said he isn’t?

He brags about funding his own campaign, but the truth is that he’s taking in large amounts of contributions and he’s only LOANED his campaign money. He can have the campaign pay himself back with contributions taken from others.

N : Who’s right? Based on the market, Ford is right. Trump may be right that our trade treaties encourage this move, but Ford has to remain competitive. And by attacking Ford, Trump actually is working to do more harm to the US job market. Ford employs more Americans per car sold in the US than any foreign maker, by a…

What area do you live in where the Leaf isn’t discounted?