And investors unwilling to live with years of multi-billion dollar losses or tolerate unfunded warranty liabilities.

Shockingly, the fleets of Taycans have been regularly TESTING. out in the real world. TESTING.

So, basically, non-Tesla carmakers have standards?

That’s common with BHPH cars. John Oliver gave us the sad story of a used Kia that was repossessed and resold by the same dealer at least 6 times, with several of the repossessions happening after the car broke down and the buyer refused to keep paying for it. So they’d patch the car up just enough to get it running…

I sold my manual Passat back 3 years ago for over $19k (over $6k more than I paid for it 2 years before that) used the money to pay off all debt outside of house and school and you’re telling me I can essentially go back and get my car back with a new warranty for cheap again?!?  This is like Christmas!!!  Thanks VW…

That is pretty common business model for those lots

I’m still curious if the ecological spend on the repairs AND the loss of ~5mpg per car is actually adding up to a net reduction in emissions. We are religious about recording mileage (fuelly.com is great) and saw our average fill up go from ~45mpg to ~40mpg. Best ever was 50mpg pre fix (with many many 47+ if we were…

I am not sure we are intended to rally for any one approach, but that we should understand the actions of the past, learn from its impacts, and plan with a greater holistic perspective (aka plan with a big picture mentality and reduce unwanted unintended consequences).

While reading this it smacks of what Cincinnati did to their very colorful basin district. There was a very dense section of Cincinnati called Kenyon Barr. It was full of culture, families, businesses, parks, and fantastic architecture. The story is very long, but essentially the same, right down to the viaduct that…

Yep, that’s about what every major city up and down the west coast looks like.  It’s a massive problem, just not a problem caused by the demolition of a freeway.

Award winning photo research you have here - overpasses in cities attract homeless folks.

Poor people (in cities largely people of color) get the shit end of the stick in infrastructure development (and virtually everything else)-- how is this confusing to you? 

We’re really bad at picking up the slack when we “upgrade” run-down communities. We need programs to help the current residents keep living there as conditions improve.

There’s really no “right” answer. There’s definitely solutions that have pros and cons to a bunch of different people, and they are all going to be vocal about the cons, and not work together on shared pros.

The core argument appears to be about gentrification. I feel like every rational person here acknowledges that something needs to be done about the highway as it is. The fear is that it will be done in a vacuum. For example, when they put it up in the first place, they probably should have created a carrot and stick…

Denver’s new airport twenty-five years ago is another story. Though it still took twenty years to get a damn rail line out to it.

Reducing a complex issue into a tweet-sized sentence removes nuance
 critical to understanding the issue, also at 11. Back to you.

QUIT PRESSURING ME MOM!!!

Especially a newborn that weighed in at a meager seven pounds (of boost).

Call me crazy, but I just don’t think you should use a belt on your kids.