Range over speed should absolutely be the orientation of designers. After all, if we want to slow battery degradation, more range = more time between charges, etc.

What in the fuck is wrong with people? Who actually doubts that he told her to “dance” while he shot at her? There’s nothing defensible about his case. He wasn’t allowed to have a weapon - he had a weapon. (who knows why he thought he might need one, but he certainly showed why keeping guns out of the hands of morons…

These were seats with small motors, capable of transporting two high school kids back and forth to school and practice without offering the capacity for fun. The only thing in one of these cars that even implied quality were the front seat belts.

It’s pretty simple. He’s not a US citizen. He was in possession of an unlicensed, semi-automatic gun. So, he’s already fucked. Once they prove he shot her, and let’s face it, he shot her, he’s going down for a number of years and then getting booted back to Canada.

The most virulent “We have too many cars and it’s killing___, ____,and_____! We need to make it difficult to drive!”, don’t live in places where transit options simply don’t exist. You can’t ride your bike on a 50 mile one-way commute in Tennessee. There is no commuter train in South Dakota. The local bus might run…

Fat is unattractive. We are literally programmed to find it so; that’s why seeing dramatically obese people engenders a visceral reaction in so many people. Sure, people might point to the Rubenesque ideal, but that wasn’t fatness on the scale we now see. Evolution pushed us to favor fit mates, and fat ain’t fit.…

I’ll bet his daughters loved hearing that at school, likely on heavy repeat.

Up until very recently, one of the most common ways for people to meet their spouses was at work. Given that 50+% of famous people marriages end in divorce, it’s hardly shocking that two famous people developed an attraction that supplanted their (apparently dying) marriages.

Consenting adults choosing to consent to a relationship - what’s controversial?

I bought one new for $16k. ND

For the hobbyist, not a bad deal. For the safety-minded, something to avoid.

I usually love an optimist. Today though, the optimist trying to sell this thing might just be deluded. 

That’s just no the way things work. For insurance purposes, yes, in some states. Others make it more difficult to assign liability to a driver who experiences an idiopathic medical event; after all, one can’t exactly predict when a health problem will manifest.

As someone who was once prone to “microsleep” events, you can assign responsibility all you want to someone, but sleep may not be preceded by drowsiness, In my case, I didn’t even know I fell/was falling asleep until a work colleague brought it up coincidentally with my almost rear-ending the car in front of me at a…

You are an optimist. I once had the misfortune to have to manage a team that all had company cars. Not only did they lose jacks, they lost headrests, shift handles, side mirror covers....The crazy shit people do to their cars (or to other people’s cars) is no longer surprising to me. Imagine trying to explain to the…

It needs a fucking jack! I’d buy it, likely to my regret.

I don’t think he’ll be revered. Recognized though, certainly. No one can look at the worldwide pivot to EV and not reconcile themselves to the fact that he did that. Nobody else put together the infrastructure and produced a vehicle for mass consumption and then actually had it consumed but Musk. On that alone, he’s…

I think your distaste for the guy obscures his achievements. Like it or not, he is the reason we have such a robust EV market and growing infrastructure. He is “the” guy. He is changing how we tunnel, how we approach paralysis treatment. He has changed how we look at space, removing it from the sole purview of…

You may not like him, I don’t like him, but he was on firm ground firing those folks. It’s pretty thin to say that the employees were fighting “for better working conditions” which is where the protection lies, because they led off with criticism of Musk, specifically, and then asked for more inclusive policies.

I don’t know how to say, “I’m just gonna nope the fuck out...”, in Italian. I’m still gonna nope the fuck out. This is the car for someone who simply can’t tolerate their streak of good luck and feels they need to give back.