Ug, this is so defeatist.

Oh god, yes.

See, if you had been thinking, you would have led with some other random topic but left the Kinja post autogeneration screen up in the background for people to sleuth out and “discover”.

Actually, pretty much everything else on the planet is closer to Oregon than the Maldives. 

Once you were in Kuala Lumpur, you should have just kept heading east to get home! (Probably would have required flying a different airline though...)

Yeah. What adds to this on the Tesla is that it has an electrically operated rear hatch, so it opens itself, and does the soft-close thing as well. So, you pull the hatch down to the latch (or have it close itself), it grabs the hatch and then cinches it down tight. So, if you adjust one of the pads up to where it…

This is what competition is. You *compete* for customers, either in price, or service quality or both.

Shrug. I do a lot of flying, and sometimes I can get the time/cost formula to weigh out ok by driving to PDX. But most of the time, its just easier to use the local airport which is tiny, and 20 minutes from my house. The parking is way cheaper too.

Took a travel deal package that left out of SFO. The SEA option was way more expensive, more than our airfare between Oregon and SFO.

Meh. You’re going from one side of the globe to another. That’s a journey that’s going to take time, no matter how you slice it.

Well, what she didn’t tell you is that Alaska is giving passengers free access to their onboard video library via WiFi. Its the same catalog that was available through the screens, you just access it through your device instead. And no, it doesn’t cost anything.

The bottomless pit of military spending is called Boeing and Lockheed and OshKosh and countless other private military contractors taking in their kickbacks and plush government contracts.

It probably was adjusted when sold, but, like I said, these can get vibrated out of alignment, or, someone can easily just twist them. Twist one all the way up, and the other all the way down, and you can easily create the image above.

Corporations can exist for whatever reason the owners want them to exist for. Indeed, oil companies are for making money on every single drop of oil they can extract and burn, regardless of whether that kills the environment or not. Saying a corporation is only there to make money can justify a whole mess of horrible,…

Um. Am I the only one seeing the trunk gap difference on the Porsche in the comparison images above? The right side is clearly larger than the other. Not to the extent as the Tesla above it, but its still not “perfect”. (Honestly, this panel gap thing is ridiculous...)

I dunno. I think this issue is way more relevant to existing ICE issues than you’re willing to admit;

Tires were one example. There are a ton of other ICE examples as well, from timing belts to crank shaft bearings (I’m looking at you, Porsche), and yes, including ECUs because those break as well. I’ve had several older fuel injected cars that refused to start because some sensor or module failed and the proprietary…

Yeah, but its fixed when you replace the part. There’s already 3rd party guys doing this.

I think that’s why Tesla open sourced their charging, to encourage other carmakers to use their standard, and so they could charge for it in the future...

But, that’s actually what’s happening right now. Teslas can charge on other networks. And Tesla open-sourced their Supercharger technology so any other car manufacturer can use it and implement it in their cars for free, its just no other manufacturer has chosen to do that.