Sadly, even the Japanese and the Germans are seeing their RWD luxury sedans cannibalized by SUVs. There’s a reason why BMW made the X7.

Well, we need people to buy new so that used cars even exist in the first place.

I honestly forgot Infiniti even existed until I got offered a “luxury upgrade” to a Q50 at Enterprise. 

AVs do not need to be perfect to be exponentially better than humans.

Tesla axed the hatch to reduce the cost, not because they were afraid of it taking away S sales. The target demographic wouldn’t have bought an S anyway...

A $40k fully loaded RAV4 today is filled with technology that didn’t exist on a $100k Mercedes S-class 10 years ago.

Sales numbers are only part of the story. If those cars required heavy incentives to be moved, there could be a net loss and that would be as good as not having any such cars to sell in the first place.

In downtown SF, break-ins are so common that people who park on the street just remove all valuables and leave the doors unlocked - since the thieves tend to try the door before they break the window. 

Perhaps there should be a nationwide law that all cars must leave the dealer with a proper metal license plate? California is particularly stupid about this. There is no reason why people should be allowed to drive with easy-to-fake paper plates for 6 months (and evade bridge tolls in the process).

Other countries are…

More of a shitty human cop situation rather than an argument against ANPR.

Devil’s advocate here - If a plate turns out to be stolen, you still know that the criminal was at a certain place at a certain time, and that can help with the search. For example, if the criminal stole the plate off a car that was parked on someone’s driveway, and didn’t realize that a camera was watching... yeah…

Because an actual luxury car at the same price would in all likelihood have less equipment and be less comfortable. That’s been the case since... Forever?

Hey, Canada is actually a whiter country than the USA (by percentage). The people who put on such stickers likely don’t consider Canada to be “foreign”, at least not any more than minority American citizens.

Absolutely no problem with this as long as they have good digital sale prices like Steam (and they do right now!). Would be nice if they offered a disc reader peripheral for those who initially buy a discless console and then realize they miss the ability to borrow a friend’s physical game (probably the #1 advantage…

“we are running out of oil”

The UK is linked to mainland Europe via the Chunnel so yes you can drive a car from the UK into Europe and eventually Asia. During the Chunnel portion you simply park on the train and start the car back up when the train exits the tunnel.

How to make people drive less without punishing car enthusiasts: Have reliable transit with park-and-ride facilities. It works in the Bay area - plenty of car owners park at the BART and ride the rest of the way because they don’t want to spend half the day in gridlock. No one forces them to use park and ride - they…

Show me exactly where the “green new deal” is trying to ban planes and I will drink my own urine.

As a martial artist, I have to disagree. I’d love to beat the daylights out of Richard Spencer, the Proud Boys, etc but a morbidly obese grandpa? There’s just no satisfaction in that - it’s like verbally insulting someone with a severe developmental disability. Fatty would probably crumple and surrender before the…

The policy does not affect Canadian travelers or ESTA-eligible nations. Chinese visitors likely don’t have any Western social media accounts due to censorship (only a small minority actually bother with VPNs), and I doubt anyone in the state department is going to bother looking at Weibo or Renren posts. In other…