Neutral: The current credit’s structure (phasing out after a given manufacturer makes a certain # of EVs) is designed to get new manufacturers into the EV game. I think that mission is about as accomplished as its going to be: Tesla is the only new company that’s made a substantial number of real cars, and every other…

You don’t necessarily need 3D morphing screens to do that: You could do screens on physical buttons (though I’ve got mixed feelings about how that would work, particularly I think infotainment and driving functions of a car should be physically separate - I don’t want anyone to confuse the button for “next song while…

I’ve noticed this, too, but just to argue the flipside: Since Prime was introduced, they’ve also added Free Same Day/Free One Day delivery, and there IS an easy way to select that in search. That’s effectively replaced “Free Two Day” shipping, since when that launched, it had a pretty limited selection.

The Amazon HQ2 project was such a nationwide farce that I’m hopeful it could turn out to be the beginning of the end of corporate welfare.

The legality of that would be very difficult to sort out: None of the self-driving systems being created today are “coded” the way that, say, someone coded your operating system or Facebook. Instead, someone creates algorithms which are fed tons of data and which are then tweaked via coding.

There’s a lot of comments about how the issue here isn’t REALLY cash bail, and many rightly point out that she was also affected by other failures in the criminal justice system (particularly with how they deal with mental illness), and some of those people are making valid points, but consider this:

The brackets aren’t the same thing as your salary - the figures in the table above are for what the IRS considers to be your income, which is after FICA (7.65%), state and local taxes, anything non-taxable on your paycheck (health insurance, retirement), and/or any deductions that lower your taxable income (mortgage…

$400 a month ($4800 a year) doesn’t cover food, clothing and medical expenses for an adult human in this country - especially not at a lifestyle that most people making $100k would have.

Also, that’s not a wage - that’s taxable income for the IRS, so it’s counted after FICA (7.65% for most workers), state/local taxes, plus the things the IRS doesn’t tax (payroll deductions for health insurance, money towards retirement plans....).  It’s likely that to get to that $79k figure for IRS taxable income, a…

The income figures listed are for taxable income from the IRS, not the salary you get on paper. The IRS number is after deductions for sate and local taxes, FICA and, for most workers, things like the employee-paid part of their health insurance, contributions to retirement plans, etc, so it’s more than likely that to…

Well, here’s the other way of looking at your hypothetical case: It’s likely that your EV will be fully topped up every day you wake up and go to work. With a 300 mile range, even with a long commute (~50 miles), you’d arrive at the office with enough of a charge to get to your parents without recharging.

It’s really a stretch to say that the reason people bought ICEs vs. EVs last year was due to range anxiety. It’s a part of it, but cost has to be the most important factor, followed by limited EV options, followed by infrastructure concerns.

You know what’s funny? On my last road trip, I realized that I pretty consistently had to plan on at 15 minutes for any stop, and with 2 people and a dog, we never beat 10 minutes from the time we pulled into the lot to the time we pulled back out, between gas, bathroom, snack and letting the dog pee.

I knew about/read articles on DNAInfo long before I knew it was a Ricketts project, and I had this nagging feeling that, while it wasn’t biased, I had a feeling that the kinds of facts that DNAInfo reported came from a very conservative world view:

THIS. You know how you can listen to a song that you haven’t heard and know what decade it’s from? Yeah, say goodbye to that if this precedent becomes universally applied.

Its not doctored. VW was founded before WWII in Nazi Germany, and the Beetle was intentionally developed as the “people’s (Volks) car (wagen),” hence the name. It wasn’t produced in significant numbers until after WWII, however.

Yeah, really editing choices.  They make a big deal of bringing the engineer that lead the restoration up from Mexico, presumably to put a human face on the job, but they never show Kathleen and him interacting - its not clear if she knew what his role was, but it felt sort of odd.

There’s ways that are fair to both sides - some past contracts have guaranteed money for retraining workers laid off, for example. A guy I know actually went to nursing school courtesy of (I think) Ford on that kind of a plan.

It’ll be interesting to see how the facts of the Ghosn case come out.

Toronto prices are just totally insane. The high end of London’s market is propped up by having every oligarch, despot and extended member of 3rd world royal families buying flats to not live lest they find themselves in exile, New York is New York... and Toronto has London-like prices despite a medium household…