Yeah that was the big problem back in the day with the DeLorean, you get a dent you are kind of fucked, there is a REASON car’s aren’t made out of bare sheet metal. If it was a good idea it would have been done again.

And don’t forget that it isn’t painted, so you have to bring the metal itself back to perfect visual quality. A painted panel needs to be brought to the correct shape and texture, and then any variance in color gets painted over. Raw stainless steel will likely just have to be replaced because you will never get it…

Ahh yes Tesla, the bastion of truthfulness. 

Economy of scale definitely helped the F150 issue. We’ll see how many Cybertrucks are produced. The more they make, the cheaper body work will be.

The knowledge exists, but it might not be common in the auto repair industry.

I think part of the problem is that more or less no shops have any idea how to fix/repair stainless steel. Outside of the DeLorean it hasn’t been used in any vehicles, that I know of.

Well, the way Tesla seems to operate, it seems like most any crash will total the vehicle anyway, thanks to insane repair/certification costs and glacial repair times....

The other problem is finding repair shops that will repair to sub-micron tolerances.

This site has covered space for its entire existence.

Adding an immobilizer is not complex or expensive. Why Kia/Hyundai stick their head in the sand and refuse to fix the problem their vehicles are associated with is perplexing. Free immobilizer retrofit and certificate $500 or $1000 only good for use on new vehicle is the solution I’d recommend.

Because everyone has waited for big sales to buy stuff and once they’re over it’s back to saving.

I do miss wandering the aisles and letting Target tell me what I need. Now I do that at thrift stores.

Just going to slide in here and agree with everything above.  I don’t see how the economy has any room at all to grow.  Most people are hunkered down in “survival mode” and discretionary spending is just something I speak of fondly about in terms of “yesteryear”.  

“And before someone comes along with the “but only rich people buy houses and new cars””

I’m not sure how long the market expects to go on like this.

It’s a shame, because, “In Baltimore, I got served by a waitress with a black eye” is a pretty surreal set-up. A good comic could really do something with that. You could take that to dark, weird, or even empathetic places. This guy went for the easiest, dumbest joke in the book instead.

I like Maron’s view on these jokes, especially Rife's apology with the special needs helmet - it’s so fucking hack. We’re kind of doing a disservice to the shittiness of the jokes by talking about whether or not they’re “offensive.” They’re just examples of middle of the road hack comedy. That should be the story, and…

This is why news outlets use the word “alleged” when reporting on even the most obviously guilty parties.

I mean that isn’t what happened. Millions and millions of people just kind of enjoyed it in a more civilised and unhyped way. Shared lots of content, had lots of discussions. There was no dull wet thud, it was just a pretty smooth and uneventful landing, not like a super hero landing like other games do. For the…

She gave them viral advertising. They are attempting to extend that time in the lime light. It is working and buying a KIA is cheap compared to most marketing stunts.