I didn’t say anything about who may be “better” in the end though. I just said that legacy automakers are transitioning from creating fossil fuel powered cars to electric ones. That being said, the fact that both the E-Tron and iPace turned out to be considerably less efficient than the aging Model X suggests it may…

In *America*, yes. In China there are a few. Rivian may be the next here stateside, and Rimac seems to be doing well. We’re very early into this phase, the next 10 years will be interesting to watch. It’s only a negative term if you want it to be my dude.

I think it’s just supposed to denote automakers who are coming form a history of producing combustion powered cars that are transitioning to electric vehicles. It’s an easy way to separate them from newer automakers who are producing nothing but EVs. And I mean, given those are two very different realities, I don’t…

I mean, you can make the argument that is far more noticeable than the background noise of tire roar. Something attention grabbing would do a better job at alerting you, but I take your point.

Drones may make that possible one day. We can build telescopes and see massive swaths of the depths of space fairly easily, but a similar option does not exist for mapping the ocean floor. I mean, we *have* used radar on satellites to map the landscape of the entire ocean floor already... but you need ships equipped…

I meant exploring the ocean is a far harder task than exploring space, for clear reasons. We can see incredibly far with telescopes, but light only travels so far underwater. Even when you put high powered flashlights on submersibles, they only penetrate a couple of feet. We can deal with the immense pressures and all…

Nobody can do that for several years, unless they’re willing to eat enormous losses. But, as the cost of batteries continues to fall we’ll get there before too long. Probably within the next 5 years or so, if costs keep falling at their current rate.

That, uh, happen to you often my friend?

I guess a few seconds of fun before you die still counts as fun. Kinda like dying mid-sex.

You joke, but I have a feeling you could figure out a way to successfully market a drink with that name.

Either that, or demons mistake your identity and come to the aid of their king.

They seem to have lost their design mojo with the C4. In my eyes at least, they haven’t had a truly beautiful or striking design since the C3. I’m not one of those guys who generally favors classic car design over modern machines, but in this case at least... yeah.

I imagine part of the reason for that is the significant difference in difficulty between exploring space and the oceans.

I mean... kinda. Any platform of significant size is going to attract asshats and trolls. You can do your best to filter them out, but it’s not really the same thing as being in a physical space where you can just walk somewhere else. With the internet, that basically means avoiding comment sections and forums altogeth…

If the only sort of change boomers freaked out about was a car changing its layout, this would be a very different country right now. Man I wish that was the case.

Independent contractors set their own rates, at least that’s how I’ve always understood it. If Uber/Lyft want to enable that, then they can make that argument more easily.

They’re almost certainly being coy with the figures because they haven’t nailed everything down yet. Less than 3 seconds is meaningless, so I wouldn’t worry about that for now.

I was under the impression most cars wouldn’t be fine if you chucked them off a hill at 100+ mph.

I don’t think you got the memo my dude. “True” enthusiasts are not allowed to consider an electric car until they can drive from NYC to Mexico City on a single charge, breech 600 mph at full chat, charge to full in 5 seconds (at spots that are available every 10 feet), and replicate both the noise and vibrations of…

That’s what I didn’t get about the opinion of that one guy he mentioned in the article saying they should stick with what they know instead of appealing to younger people. It’s literally arguing they should focus on customers who won’t be around for that much longer, and ignore the fact that they’ll eventually need to…