Oregon is very much considering that right at the moment with MyOReGO and CALTRANS is also piloting it with that idea in mind. They’re just the best known examples.

Kinda, I guess? How far behind or ahead we are depends on your viewpoint of a bunch of metrics.

Sure there is. You could mandate or retrofit a GPS registered to each car registered. From there you could form a structure, similar to that of the current object of everyone’s ire in the business world, the sales tax nexus, and require reporting. A quick odometer check would find out if anyone is using a jammer or…

Mileage is tricky because you’ll eventually end up in a South Dakota v. Wayfair situation where every taxing entity wants to know exactly how many miles you drove in their state, how many were on state roads vs local roads etc. That leads to all sorts of nasty downstream effects.

Industry analysts are doing the douchebro “Just asking questions” shtick with EV’s at the moment. They know damn well that the reasons you posted are why EV adoption is slow, but admitting it would mean that they would also have to admit they all thought/knew they could make way more money by just running…

#1: This is why I feel like registration fees should be based on the vehicle’s weight. Heavier vehicles do so much more damage to the roads and other infrastructure than ones that are “reasonably sized” (IE: At or around 4k lbs or 17 American washing machines or 91428 Kinder Eggs for those of you that speak metric.)

Sometimes I wish I was part of the fuck around generation instead of the find-out generation.

Yea! You shouldn’t license the best battery tech available to give yourself a competitive advantage, because.... mumble, nonsense, vaguely xenophobic slogan, MAGA, mumble.... commies!

Yea, sorry for the confusing Ridgeline bit. That was the only truck I could think of from a manufacturer that didn’t make trucks for the US, had a very different configuration (remember how much shit they caught for being unibody?), and really broke into the public zeitgeist. I guess the R1T and Santa Cruz count, but…

There was a really interesting segment on Marketplace a couple weeks ago talking about how the Barbie DreamHouse has evolved over the last 60 years. Basically, it’s a mashup of what children see and what they would want in an aspirational house.

If they continue to use Magna Steyr for production, Fisker should produce whatever sells. In the case of the US, pickups and SUVs sell. So I don’t see why they shouldn’t produce one, especially if the Ocean platform will support it. Maybe it’ll be the next Ridgeline.

They really don’t take it well when you post on their social media that it’s socialism for the state to act as the insurer of last resort. They should just let the markets do their thing man.

The platforms would be well within their rights to remove these videos. It’s considered reasonable moderation under Section 230. Ironically, in this situation, forcing the platforms to leave the content up would be a first amendment violation covered under the Compelled Speech Doctrine.

I don’t know if you remember the last SAG strike, but it very quickly devolved into a “Look how greedy these actors are. Fuck these rich assholes. Am I right?” in right-wing media.

Man, here I was hoping the LIFO accounting crunch would finally comes for these assholes. Their tears were so delicious last year and congress still hasn’t bailed them out as far as I can tell.

I really wish Shawn Fain the same success Sean O’Brien is having with the UPS teamsters, even if it’s as gradual as their negotiations. Hopefully, he can course correct the mismanagement for the last several decades.

Thats largely because the sages and oracles that framed our constitution didn’t put “on a computer” in the foundational document. Since they were omnipotent beings with intellects and vision so far beyond modern man they forsaw the computer and knew of it’s dangers, so only paper should be protected.

I think we’ll get there eventually, even the most anti-consumer practices get workarounds or reigned in. I’m more concerned in the short term that it will be very easy to buy something where the lifecycle may be drastically shorted by the manufacturer losing interest in the software or jumping to another platform.

Agree on the Tesla part. Whatever else I may say about them they really changed the landscape.

It happens more often with regional jets but isn’t uncommon with larger aircraft.