Well obviously they didn’t have a cop motor.

Especially if they are MY21s. 

I wonder why they aren’t covered in plastic to protect the paint?

If it was actually paint or powdercoat they might stand a chance against a forklift, but GM uses this wax coating on their frames that rubs off if you look at it funny.  It is especially soft when new. I feel bad for dealership mechanics that have to deal with that crap rubbing off on them all day.

I have a strong feeling GM pickups are going to be heavily discounted in about 6-12 months. 

I look forward to the explanation for how that “just raise the roadways” plan works in practice.

That was my thought, if you have power, then you can either back down towards the hinge to cause minimum (or possibly no) damage, or gun it and hope reality is the same as the movies.

Even if the vehicle was stalled out, the incline of the bridge would allow gravity to roll the vehicle back out onto solid ground without harm.

quite frankly, the criteria is somewhat nonsensical - the % of EV owners doesn’t seem particularly relevant, the high population of CA hurts in relation to the charger metric, the incentives tend to be lower in states that have higher uptake.

The lack of affordable housing here is definitely a serious problem, and it’s one that cuts across all political lines. Liberals support low-income housing developments . . . just as long as they’re somewhere else. Conservatives seem to want all the poor and homeless people to just go away; they’ll insist there’s some…

I was in Silicon Valley from ‘87 to ‘91. CA is no longer the best state for much, other than the excellent weather.  I was in Palo Alto a couple years ago and was shocked to see decrepit “RVs” (I use that term loosely, many were old vans or trucks) lining El Camino Real that people were sleeping in.  One of the…

The giant tablet haphazardly slapped onto the dash is the biggest intersection between "things manufacturers think look expensive" and "things a poor person would do to act rich" in recent memory. 

I appreciate the IDEA, but man, that execution just doesn’t do it for me. Should have left the outside looking closer to factory, the interior looks like they got to the week before they needed to show it and all said ‘Fuck it, just cram the new stuff in there!’ and that tablet stuck to the dash looks.. well, shit.

I doubt you would go through the effort of ripping out the dashboard, seats, and seemingly replacing the entire interior wiring loom for this, though. If this is supposed to keep older vehicles alive it shouldn’t require gutting the entire interior of the vehicle, which is what Ford’s suggesting with this. You should…

I immensely dislike this aesthetically. This was half-assed. The $40 Autozone split level headlights, painting all the chrome body colour, and ripping the steering wheel and infotainment screen from the Mach-E and installing them with... Are those fucking self-tapping wood screws? This was not the way to do this.

The…

“Of course, we all know that keeping the streets nice and serene likely isn’t the real intent of the bill. Traffic stops are often more about revenue than safety, and increasing fines from three digits to four ought to net the state some nice cash flow. With these stops disproportionately affecting low-income drivers,…

Your base assumption should be that Erik is a moron. And given that, this line is expected. 

“It’s really too bad that Toyota is now experiencing the consequences of its own actions.”

Ironically, I worked at Toyota and now work at a company that had to shut its doors in Mississippi because the Toyota plant (and all of the supplier facilities) came in caused the labor rate to skyrocket in the area. We’re seeing a similar issue now with another plant with an Amazon warehouse open down the road.

“It’s really too bad that Toyota is experiencing the consequences of its own actions.”
That isn’t how consequences work. This law is what is known as an “externality” or “unknown” in economic models.
The other way to headline this would be “One of the world’s largest automakers, who brought good-paying jobs to rural…