Salespeople add zero value to the experience. I know more about the cars I’m interested n then they do. They don’t even know the simple things like what they actually have in inventory. Everything they do they look up on the computer, and they are the one thing between me and a good price on a car. If I can actually…

I’m not sure I liked watching the video. That video was all built about the concept of the “little lady” that couldn’t do anything on her own.

While I haven’t dealt with insurance there, generally it only pays out the value of the car. In this case, given that it’s an old Subaru, if it’s written off (likely) the potential payout is going to be pretty low. It might be very difficult to find an equivalent vehicle for the price of the payout - and certainly…

6 year old Subaru means that the engine was eating and leaking oil like crazy and probably shat itself so he probably replaced it with refurb engine. My friend has a vintage Forester and basically keeps adding oil till this thing will finally die. Probably somewhere in the middle of Death Valley when he is out camping…

No shit. I read this part and it even pissed me off more. What a dick move from Choi.

Just because Tesla has no PR department doesn’t mean you have to volunteer.

Jalopnik writing a 20 second long piece on some dude who obviously wasn’t paying attention (Seriously the car barley swerved left and he tanked it into a ditch instead of slightly correcting.... wtf?) instead of properly covering whats going on with F1 right now... is the issue with the site in 2021. There is so much…

But they’re still dumb enough to keep electing Mitch McConnell....

OTOH as a Southerner who knows people working in some of those plants they are the closest thing to sweat shops in the US you’ll ever see. Just work the people to the bone, wear them out and find more cheap labor when they quit.

They’re revolutionary IF they can drastically reduce cost, and IF they can drastically increase tunneling speed, and IF they can get vehicles to reliably navigate them autonomously. So not now, but eventually someday maybe?

Waaay back in the summer of 1968 as a 13 year old I watched the USA television screening of The Prisoner (filmed in Portmerion, Wales in 1966 starring Patrick McGoohan) and fell in love with the Lotus 7, and subsequently with the Caterham clones. A Caterham is still in my “If I won the lottery” vehicle acquisition…

I don’t get the boner for nuke plants. But they are on they way out. Sticking to a thing when it’s not going to happen doesn’t help.

And the fire is NOT Hydrogen. That burns clear. The real problem was using Aluminum Oxide paint. The paint and fabric mix on the Hindenburg was literally explosive.

I watched the first 3 turns then thought the video was done with a few seconds left.

Agreed here, the click-baity title aside (nerve-wracking would have been a better choice instead of terrifying) I think this is what we want to see in our early stage auto-piloting footage, cautious leaning towards confident.

I just took my S on a road trip that was ~2500 miles. The last 2 charging stops the plug was hard to press in and the latch wasnt engaging, and then also tough to remove the charger. Thought the first one was the adapter I picked, two in a row makes it seem like its my car. Coworker with a few Teslas says to check for…

You’ve made some reasonable arguments here, so it’s disappointing that you started with a demonstrably false statement. As Defenstrator said, transmission losses in the USA are approximately 5%

Ah yes. Luckily I don’t pay an electricity bill for my home. :)

yeah except natural gas failed in texas. they only winterized the pipes, not the wellheads or the power plants. so the well heads froze. then more people started using their gas heaters leading to low pressure in the pipes at the plants, causing them to shut down. wouldnt have done jack for the state. shit we even…

For commuter cars I have a hard time imagining anything other than EV dominance. For other industries, like aviation or long-haul trucking, I can see there being a tough battle between BEVs, FCEVs, and synthetic fuels, but I think cars will be electric.