It ain’t that much fun.

At some point, a savvy insurance company will market itself as not tracking its customers. Eventually, that will be the insurance company I go with.

And don’t be shocked if they don’t even need anything in your car and just track your phone. Be a killer on your rates if you aren’t in airplane mode on a flight.

That’s why I’ve never bothered with that Progressive plugin device. The way they want me to drive will get me killed in Houston.

1st Gear:

First gear: these big brother insurance schemes are multiplying like Kudzu. It sounds fine at first- don’t sign up for these if you aren’t ok with being tracked. But it could get to the point that signing up to be tracked is the only way to avoid paying double or more in car insurance.

And despite all the push to 100% EV in a few years, I don’t think that’s feasible. EVs don’t handle all use cases...they lose a lot of range in cold weather and I know I’ve said it before, but the head of an EV truck startup told me that they are not good vehicles for towing/hauling. Unless that changes radically in…

No one at Jalopnik (besides Tracy) really understands how long it takes to develop a vehicle, do they?

Why would anyone put up with the city if they can actually work remotely.  I think the opposite is likely to occur and more people will leave the cities.

Throw in remote work and an inevitable shift of population into cities and yeah.

Although not an ideal situation, the U.S. government was between a rocket and a hard place.

Seriously, worst dealership experience I’ve ever had by a long, long ways.

I really hope you forgot a /s

Hence my comment. German car company does it : Bad !

Now if they could only make it so that you didn’t have to buy or service these at a Kia/Hyundai dealership.

He had likely just buried a body that had been dead for days.

The 6 tubes on top are missile launchers, not engines.

“Komrade Ivan, vhat is better than ten turbojet engines?”