This would encourage people to by more efficient cars, instead of just cars with bigger batteries. I think they actually added a figure for gallons / 100 miles to the EPA ratings a while back (or at least considered it), but nobody pays attention to it. IMO that makes a lot of sense becuase it better illustrates the…

“On August 15, 1899, a chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company’s main plant. That may not seem like a big deal...”

That is some solid wrong reasoning right there.

It is not a Ford engine.

Don’t you mean “rickcursion”.

Trigger warning to Tesla stans:

NOW we need an etymologist.

Good to know, I thought is was so people have something to try and jumpstart on the side of the highway when the car stops working.

I guess weed must be popular in Candyland, wherever that is.

I’m well aware that drunk driving laws are a blanket safety feature playing to the lowest common denominator. And probably better to exist than not exist. (the “freedom” of driving under the influence isn’t an important “freedom”)

I learned to drive around that time. I heard similar arguments all the time in papers and the like. The root problem is something we don’t think about now. We have changed how we define drinking.

Drunk driving is bad, sure, and it’s also been demonized to the point of parody.

Oof, I was expecting the “shops are full” mention to turn into “so we discovered we could do it ourself in the hotel parking lot for $125 after Ubering to Autozone.”

Which is true, the best bet then, is to take the loan, ensure it doesn’t have any prepayment penalties, then pay it off the next day. 

“if someone just wants to drop $10,000 or $200 a month for unfinished software that doesn’t do everything it was hyped up about just yet and let that unfinished software take control of your expensive car with your soft, pliant body in it on pubic roads, then, well, I guess that’s just one of those irrational car…

So the plan is to revert back to this?:

Gotta be rich to afford to heat hot water.

1) self-driving is pretty good at most things, except edge cases, and 2) almost everything is edge cases.

I'm sorry Adam but this is totally wrong. The best N64 racing game is Top Gear Overdrive ;-)