Smart Fortwo*

I know.  Now it’s getting too creepy with Boeing.

Be careful with anecdotal evidence, the “seems higher” bit. But you are kinda correct; there were 7 more serious close calls in 2023 (23) than in 2022 (16).

Let’s suppose things get so bad for Boeing due to their own trashing of their quality standards and shipping defective product that demand dries up and Boeing goes bankrupt. The Boeing management jackasses will descend upon DC screaming and crying for a bailout—absolutely guaranteed—privatized profits combined with…

Related - https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/02/second-boeing-whistleblower-dies

Driving in Houston during rush hour witnessed the following by people as they “innovate” to get around long backups to highway access.

It is- I’ve lived in Texas all my life and never really learned to drive until I moved to Austin for college. Now that there’s more and more toll roads, it’s like Larry The Cable Guy’s joke, “The highway patrol is just the pace car for the interstate!”

Depends on the part but yeah, we drive fast lol. I just chalk it up to everything being so damn far away lol.

As an AZ resident this is probably the right call

“color matched wheels look like shit”

Aww babe, thank you!

As if I’d get advice on taste from someone in Arizona. 

Because the wheels are already done.

You’re effectively saying “The thing you’ve done is shitty, and I don’t like it. Why didn’t you do it a way I like?”

Because I did it a way I like. 

Because I don’t want to do that. 

Ope. 

Tried it once on a business trip, as I knew I would be traveling only a short distance. Got the car with about 75% charge. Drove it 100 miles or so over 2 days. Found a Supercharger near my hotel. Drove over, plugged in, and did my email for 15 minutes while it filled with electrons (like ICE, you have to return the…

If you’re thinking of buying one, it could be a great experience to rent it for a few days just to use at home.

I’ve never understood the idea that people would want EVs as a rental car.  Going to a location like a hotel or VRBO, not knowing if there’s charging stations nearby (or how to use them, if ICE is all you know)...seems like a nope.  Not a headache I want to deal with while traveling for biz...

They’re unloading them BEFORE they have to replace the batteries. Old batteries don’t charge fully to range expectations on the older EVs... This would be a big deal for the customer stranded in the mountains (or swamp)...

I wondered the same thing.

Looks like a stretched skidsteer loader, without the handy loader part.