Again, the whole point of L5 is the car can handle the unforeseen. In order for it to be L5, under no circumstances can the car give you back the controls because it’s too confused by what’s going on. There cannot be “bumpers unless your certain the car will never go in the gutter.” 

Hell yes. The combination of the most 90's rock soundtrack and the legit brands like FILA, KFC, and Tower Records have made this game age incredibly well. One of my older cousins left their old Dreamcast in my grandparents basement, and all of us going down there and playing it on Christmas was the greatest tradition…

When people first started talking about self-driving cars years ago, I always assumed this is what it was going to be. Cars all processed by a network (or at least talked to each other) always seemed way more practical than just a bunch of cars that tried to handle themselves.

Fair point! Although there’s a really good piece somewhere about how the moon landing was the exception, not the rule. Basically there’s a vast difference between “can we do something?” and “can we make a machine do something for us?”

“Level 5 is already a reality in fenced-in situations.”

Level 5 will happen because there is an economic incentive for it to happen.

wellness check: did a tesla stan just jump out of the closet and hit you over the head with a steel chair?

I was in a record store on Saturday and stumbled across the soundtrack to Beavis and Butthead do America.

Yes, but I classify those blunt impact disasters separately than stuff like all our arable land has migrated north of the Canadian border. The “events” are bad in their own right, but they aren’t quite the social upheaval that Florida going underwater would create.

It really is something how much this shift has picked up in the last 3 years it seems like. It’s *almost* like the powers that be in this society understand just how dire the climate situation will get* if change doesn’t happen ASAP

*haiku*

Alright, I don’t want this thing myself....

I mean, I think it goes without saying there are more moving parts to my idea than just the tax itself (including credits on EV, and probably incentivizing small light cars beyond them just being cheap). It’s an obscenely difficult needle to thread because if you just give the rich the option to pay for it, then they…

Right, you can get states with emissions testing pretty easily, but that’s still only about half of them.

Yeah, come to think of it, I guess I don’t see why you couldn’t just combine the two. Have tax rate that’s function of weight and mileage. 

Come to think of it, my two options could probably just be combined. But straight raising the gas tax is just making it more expensive to be poor. 

Yeah, I think what everyone’s eventually getting at here. If it’s *just* about funding the roads, then the solution is to raise the gas tax.

Obviously their isn’t as much driving going around at the poverty line, but the majority of cars in the poor neighborhoods here (Chicago) are BOF sedans and SUV’s from the early 2000's. That’s the only thing they can afford that is still on the road and worth keeping. 

Uh, that’s the whole point of limiting #1 to cars from the last 10 years. If you can afford to drive something that recently built, then you are paying the tax. They only loophole here is if someone wants something huge that bad their willing to just drive something old.

I know Mustangs are basic as hell, but come on, a GT500 in one of the crazy colors has to be on here right?