i love the idea of a bike. i keep looking at them. but then i remember that the main time i would ride would be to work, early in the morning while the sun rises and people are groggy and dragging themselves to work, and at the end of the day when the sun’s setting and they’re exhausted and dragging themselves home.

lol, a healthy quarter of teh trucks around me are 1990-2000...

there’s also got to be extra costs to pay someone to bring that power out to you, as well as the support vehicle that carry’s it. even at minimum wage, and demanding ‘contractors’ use their own car (a la uber), there’s no way they can even cover those basic costs at $0.50/mi. no one is going to charge any more than…

this is like trying to air dry your clothes in a tornado.  it is technically possible, but all the other shit in the air means that the clothes will no longer be clean...

$500/mo for the battery packs is a very steep entry cost.

5 years for that one is just an incredible timeline. i’ve been working on a modified reverse light for the past 7.

lol with the guy trying to buy it. this guy’s like me. you can offer a million for any of my cars, but i won’t accept until i’m ready to sell, even if KBB says it’s worth some pocket lint. and that’s not today, check back later.

2001 called.  it wants it’s demo vehicle back!

sat radio was worthwhile at first when it was ad-free.  but they never got past the cliche radio station garbage where they only played the same 10 songs in whatever genre i picked.  after it went to ad’s, it got more and more useless.

sat radio is a junk feature now when bluetooth and aux cords are an option.  i don’t even listen to terrestrial radio when i have a choice.

the key is diversification. all of the financial experts unanimously preach to never, ever, invest all your monies in a single thing, i don’t see why we ought to be forced to invest in a singular power source.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-56085733

there’s also the important distinction where adding safety systems increases driver complacency or reliance on those systems to do tasks that they used to do themselves.

i had to scroll too far for the pep boys comment.

yes, it goes slower because there’s only ever 1 pump for each fuel type. and it is the water hammer effect because the pump is pumping out of the tank, creating the line pressure. there is no damper.

Thirdly, diversification is good. In the 50's everyone smoked, AND THEN we figured out how bad it was. We don’t fully know all of the future problems that come with entirely abandoning one power source and starting a different one.

Train companies can’t even maintain the road crossings they have now, and you surmise they can just dump money into an overhead grid or third rail system for their entire network?

would it be fair to say that you don’t see those models specifically because they’re dealer-locked anyways, so they can’t consider using you even if they wanted?

the confederate flag near me was flown by kids that didn’t want to be goth, but needed to rebel against the status quo.

i’d rather replace the springs if needed than have to deal with digging, poking, and stabbing through snowfall to get them off the windshield  anyways.