Taking him at his word (I know, I know...), my biggest cringe is that even with 4 years of being Commander in Chief of the military, he paid so little attention that he came away with the opinion that it’s no different than coaching a sports or racing team. I have no military training, no governing experience, and 90%…

Does anyone else find it precious that Elon can’t even grow the sort of beard a 14 year old boy can?

Do you want Doom? Because that’s how you get Doom...

With my imaginary scenario, you’d still have 100% use of your battery, just at high volume chargers you’d get the 80% or so that you can get at full speed. Heck, maybe they could have a separate set of chargers for people who need a 100% charge. The bit about advertising the 80% range alongside the 100% range is so…

I think it’s “a little column A, a little column B”, when it comes to the reality of EV life in the current era. You are absolutely correct, that not everybody has chargers available. I lived in an apartment complex in SoCal that presented itself as being “upscale”, but they only had 2 chargers, and they were both…

Total Recall did it first...

I don’t even mind it with the open diff, it still works better than any of the computer controlled or part time systems I can afford.

Surely they make the process of opting-out a simple, and painless one... /s

The mindset that insists on things like this is beyond seeking ostentatious displays of wealth. It’s obscene, vulgar even. There’s a part of me that’s genuinely sad, that so much wealth can be hoarded by a single human.

The insurance industry is. Turnabout is fair play.

Oh man if it’s just temporary, you could just game the system and drive super cautiously while you have it... 

That’s how I feel about it, too. Especially since you know they’d eventually start micromanaging people who don’t drive aggressively, just to come up with excuses to raise their rates.

Wow that’s... setting pretty much everyone up for failure. I wonder what threshold they set for actually counting “hard” acceleration against someone

Handy to know, thanks! I was always a bit curious how much it affected it. Do you know if, once you’ve started that program, you can stop it and go back to regular non-snapshot rates? I’m pretty sure I’m an ideal driver for that system (in no small part because my Crosstrek is about as gutless as can be), but if I…

On principal you have solid points, but I think where you’re setting the bar for the baseline is incorrect. The overwhelming majority of drivers have a commute - therefore drivers who are responsible commuters should be the baseline, not penalized for having a job. Drivers such as yourself should get a substantial disc…

I don’t remember. I’d assume not for a single instance, but the odds of something like that happening regularly somewhat frequently for someone who drives during rush hour would be pretty high. It wasn’t a massively unusual situation. That’s why it sat poorly with me, when it responded. we’d been traveling under the…

My ex had one of those ODB dongles for her car, in hopes to get good rates from whoever her insurance was. She had to panic brake and swerve to avoid an accident, and it was very stern about how unsafe her driving is.

Another Crosstrek owner, 2017 here. The AWD system is, by far, the best I’ve driven. I was constantly frustrated by the Hondas I drove never kicking the rear wheels in - even when I cranked the wheel and floored it on top of 8 inches of snow. Being able to do donuts on demand puts a huge grin on my face, but the added…

You got the scale of the crane slightly wrong. Like yeah, that one would be imposing to see barreling up behind you - but what made it butt puckeringly, pants shittingly terrifying, was that it was one of these.

Never pass big trucks on your way up a mountain.