Be careful what you wish for lest we all be saddled with 45hp highly monitored transportation pods.

I will refer to this article the next time this website publishes a take that modern cars are too complicated/heavy/electronic/etc.

Statistics. 60% of the time they work every time.

There you go again. Making legitimate points and using common sense.

Be careful. Disagreeing with Raph will get you shadowbanned. Ask me how I know.

I’ve been doing 1099 temporary contract work for 60-80hrs a week for a well known e-interwebs company since 2003. I get zero vacation, zero benefits, zero sick days.  I understand that’s all my responsibility. Why has California cherry picked Lyft & Uber to force them to include their gig workers as employees and not…

Most taxi drivers are contractors and yet somehow Jalopnik never had issue with that either. 

This ruling is based purely on emotion. Drivers really don’t meet the standard of being employees. They aren’t scheduled like employees, they aren’t accountable like employees, and they aren’t paid like employees. The design of rideshare platforms and the appeal to a large number of drivers is to let you make extra…

Today, California ruled that Uber and Lyft must stop pretending that their drivers are independent contractors and start treating them for what they are: employees.

Maybe it’s just my personality, but when a guy tells me I need to leave my business so that he can steal from me, and if I don’t, he’s going to kill me, my first impulse would be to say to myself, “Maybe I should shoot him first.” 

so reading the room and being black, its ok to say that this is a bad situation right? like nothing about these optics or whats happening is good right? or am i crazy? cuz this shit looks not ok. none of these stories from the ground are believable to me, but seeing young kids looting and fucking shit up doesnt seem…

I don’t disagree, and people hiding behind legal procedure to justify immoral acts makes my skin crawl............ but selectively enforcing laws based on one’s arbitrary moral compass is just as dangerous. Everyone is the hero in their own story, be it bad cops, shitty landlords or anyone else you can name who hides…

What a dumb comparison.

As someone around at the time, I’m still glad that those chucklefucks got tossed out on their ass

apples and oranges.  always someone needs to bring up slavery in any discussion 

Where have you been? Ever since Orlove took over they’ve been way more open with their college-kid angstiness.

“Reagan as the worst president in history.”

Ralph and Erik are probably the worst writers on this site (Erik for sure). Completely biased against certain companies or cars.

Massively important point that is often overlooked when it’s convenient. The strike was an illegal action under law. I’m no Reagan fan, but the controllers forced his hand and got the predictable results.

I don’t get why everyone hates on Reagan for enforcing the FSLMRS that was signed by Carter about 3 years before Reagan fired everyone. The damage was done when FSLMRS was passed, not when it was enforced.