My phone manages its charging overnight to slow charge and prolong the life of the battery. Also Li-ion batteries in phones generally should stay in the 20-80% range: that old charge/discharge cycle you heard about is for Ni-mh batteries that have a “memory”. So, plug in your car, plug in your smartphone, plug in your…

The thought of a bailiff gagging Trump in court makes me happy because there’s a good chance it’ll really happen.

I think Vinfast should be focused as a low end disrupted. Selling a small, sub $20k vehicle seems to be a ripe market. Combine it with a long warranty and you’d have a good commuter for the masses. Then, and only then, can they can expand and offer higher end vehicles.

And the blow up dancing man.

Lower prices increases sales rather often.  

LOL that looks like one of those “bonus items” you get with those 150 garbage knife bundles

United Cutlery UC2961 United M48 Talon Survival Spear with Sheath

I mean it’s at night but you click on the lead picture, and it looks like someone welded a knife to the end of a metal rod.

What makes you think that California, or any state, would be better at running an insurance company than insurance companies?  The odds are very slim.

Life is pain.

I’m not sure if that would actually lower the cost. Auto insurance is much more expensive in Canada, where in many provinces the government does sell insurance. I grew up in BC where auto insurance is essentially a government monopoly, and insurance premiums there are far higher than what I currently pay in California.

Most un-American suggestion ever, because socialism! The only things that are allowed to be socialized are roads and corporate losses. That being said, four provinces in Canada have mandatory public auto insurance. Saskatchewan has had it since 1945.

The government has a legal mandatory requirement to citizens to purchase a for-profit product but corporations don’t have a legal requirement to provide it.

Remove the legal requirement for car insurance. People who frequently get into accidents will quickly be bankrupt. 

One of my dream builds is a Rolls-Royce low rider so I can jump the hydraulics in front of Bijan on Rodeo Drive

Gizmodo Media is based in NYC and is unfriendly to remote work, so actually there is a good reason to live there.

I’m sure they just have a database of all the VINs issued since 2003 (effectively when BMW fully took over and relaunched the brand), rather than a RegEx. That’s especially true because, with a simple RegEx, a VIN could decode as valid before the car is ever produced.

Yeah you totally want your security guards giving their phone numbers out to a bunch of potentially underage girls on the job. That’s totally professional and certainly doesn’t reflect poorly on the company contracted to do this job.