Uber should treat the drivers better, but the drivers are only temporary anyway while they get automation up to par so it’s not like it’ll be a long-term problem. With Uber I can press a button, get a ride, be taken where I need to go, and the payment is handled seamlessly (especially important since 99.99% of the…

Yeah I don’t doubt there are good ones, I just haven’t dealt with one. Last time I bought a new car I gave the dealership a printout from the online configurator showing what I wanted, and wasn’t even going to be a shithead about price. They kept trying to sell me something off the lot or from their other location,…

If it got in there, I’d be able to use it at work right?

I’m so looking forward to more direct-sales models and less dealing with dealerships. Not just shit-talking (I’m saying worse about the salesweasel than he’s saying about me, I assure you), but the lies, the trying to get you to take something off the lot instead of what you actually want, etc.

Like traditional taxis,…

We see you, and have to avert our eyes because the damned fogs are probably blinding us.

Terrible news. I do not and will never have children, nor am I a taxi driver. I have no need for additional doors…

Oh well. VWoA has made it very clear over the years they don’t give a shit about individual choices, as evidenced by the crappy configurations they’ve offered since the MKIV days and possibly earlier.…

I’m basically to the point where I don’t support giving people control over their lights anymore.

People drive around without them turned on at night because they can see their instruments.

They turn on fogs when there’s no fog, which is annoying as shit (especially rear fogs).

They run around with high beams on and…

I lived in Australia for 11 years, returning to the US relatively recently. Individual Australians are fine people, but collectively they’ve formed a nation of beige cardigan cowards.

Are body on frame vehicles still basically rolling death boxes that kill their own occupants when they hit solid objects (as opposed to nice, squishy unibody vehicles that they can kill the occupants of instead)?

I’m honestly ignorant on this front, since I have an admittedly unreasonable hatred of bimbo boxes and…

So the breakdown here is that you don’t even have to be in a car crash to be killed by Takata airbags…

I believe he paid an extra 3% or so in this case, and got 1 or 1.5% back in rewards. So at most he overpaid by 1.5%, which isn’t really that bad in the situation he had.

“sometimes I am a colossal moron.”

There can be perfectly good circumstances to do it. The time I saw it done was a friend who I drove to the dealership to pay and pick up the car. He had a 18mo no-interest period on his card and was ~90 days from his annual bonus with which he planned to buy the car. The car in…

“You can’t buy a car with a credit card”

That’s incorrect. I’ve seen it done with my own eyes, it’s just not common. It was done predicated on the negotiated cost being higher than a literal cash purchase though, with the difference being the dealership’s processing fee.

I do love it on the trunk of my XLR actually. Nice when I’m walking to the car with my hands full, can still mash the button through my pants.

If they can get around on a timed lap without crashing, it’s officially faster around the ‘ring than the Koenigsegg One:1.

Victim blaming is cool.

Actually the appropriate weapon to use to hold up an ice cream truck is a flamethrower. Either I get ice cream, or nobody gets ice cream.

This is what lemon laws are for, no?

In the event such a thing were to happen I’d just look at a different EV, realistically.

Charging at work will be. Supercharging will be an option that I’ll pay for happily.

Huh, today I learned. Nice catch, thanks.