I wish you had put your #2 in a stand-alone post, so we could all upvote it.

This would work out to $36,000CAD. For $36,000 I can have almost 300km of range? That would cover my house to the nearest big city and back without having to charge. It would cover a week’s worth of driving to/from work for my wife. It would get me to the mountains and back for a weekend of camping.

Oof. Back in the day, you were the crumple zone.

That was invented by dads who really just wanted to concentrate on the road.

1) loud pipes save lives

I’m so lucky that this is true for me.

Older cars are safer, because they built them “better in the old days.”

The IRS has a legal duty to collect taxes. They’re legally bound to pursue a debt if they see it.

Cursed timeline.

For fucks sake, it is a machine that generates next word based on a string of words. Yes, it seems to be intelligent. But it is not. It is a very advanced macro generator.

In my case it was “wow! I’ve never heard of this before, let me read a bit about it and underst... nope. I’m a caveman”. And I hold an MD.

Theres a ton of reasons why anyone would want to rent a car vs drive their own. You don’t buy a car to cover you for every possible eventuality. People with sedans who need to move furniture once a year and rent a pickup from home depot aren’t a reason to dismiss buying sedans. Its the folks that drive around with…

the costs are never reasonable -thats the problem. insurance around anything motor vehicle related is crazy expensive. Thats why only the rich, or those who choose the racing life above all else can use race tracks. no mall, no actually owned bit of property could possible insure this kind of thing - it will never…

Cool. COTD is back. Of course, now I’m in the greys for no reason and can’t participate, despite being an approved commentor for close to a decade and having one of the most popular COTD’s of all time.  Thanks Jalopnik!  Also, thanks for not replying to any of the emails I sent inquiring about my commenter status. …

Geodata can do that. My friend was pregnant last year, and for a few days after every time she came over we’d get ads about baby stuff. If you’re in proximity to someone for a period of time, your ad preferences will “bleed” over to other people based on the (often correct assumption) that you’ll be discussing…

Tesla “has agreed to pay $1.5 million” for their dumping.

“Voluntary recall” almost always means that NHTSA went to the vendor and said “There’s a problem, and you don’t seem to be fixing it. It sure would be a shame if the government had to issue a recall instead of you doing it yourself. Sure would be a shame.” The UI on the right is FAR superior.

One of the rare cases in which the snow was 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒍 in both directions.

I saw Heathers cosplay, but yeah, you’re right too. WTF even is that?

Hey now, I’m sure the Cybertruck could handle a recently graded gravel road.