Thiel knows he’s just one stroke or 25th amendment away from the Presidency. He’s more than happy to let Musk and Trump lay the groundwork and take the heat for dismantling the government for two years and one day, when he can guarantee that Vance will be eligible to run for two full terms in addition to finishing out…

You park your Cybertruck in the driveway for all the world to see, anyway. No way you’re going to hide that thing inside a garage; like this house, it’s a statement piece. The statement is “I have money but no brains or taste.”

Cybertrucks in the near future:

there was a study that I read (probably on this site, many many years back) that showed new drivers were statistically the most likely to crash, not just young drivers

If we’re going to make “perfect world” arguments, might as well posit that people should just stop running red lights. If the people that run the cameras can theoretically be 100% honest and altruistic, then so can drivers.

This probably won’t be a popular opinion on this particular site, but NY should start following the lead of larger cities in Europe and move to more single lane, one-way streets and public transportation or close some streets to vehicle traffic altogether, especially the most densely populated ones where off-street…

This is exactly why I advocated for federal automobile registration in this thread; to avoid the stupid patchwork of state regulations that can be changed at the whim of whatever stupid people get a hold of a state legislature.

If you’ve been on the internet long enough, you’d expect Guiness bar towels or a hot cocoa sampler box.

the US should have European-style emissions and car maintenance standards at the federal level. Probably most things like registration, licensing, and insurance should be handled nationally. No more states infighting about things like California emissions standards or out-of-state plates/registrations. 

Boy, it’d be a shame if Detroit or the state just eminent domain-ed the whole thing and told GM to pound sand. A real shame.

Fiskfuls of dollars was right there.

Rarity will drive up the resale value of the Cybertrucks that remain in drivable condition after three years, because there just won’t be many left.

“Can’t park it, fit it on the streets, charge it, get it worked on, or get the software to work, had to give it baby bumpers, and people are constantly pointing and laughing at me.
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Still love the truck.”

“Still love the truck”

Chaos goblins. Anything that destabilizes Western society is a benefit to them, especially if it’s in non-traditional, asymmetrical fronts that can’t be tied directly back to them so they can abuse plausible deniability. Chew and fray away the edges of society, and eventually it will unravel, and they’ll be there to…

You don’t have to worry about that; once the NHTSA is gutted, you’ll never hear about any unsafe cars again.

I didn’t respond, but I think the K-car/Neon suggestion has some merit. Similar time of economic agita and flag-waving jingoism.

Gaudy, gutless gas guzzler, at it’s “performance” prime in the 1980s but is now old and broken down, parked with sagging doors and flat tires in the front yard, longing for the glory days and believing some dipshit with more money than brains will come along and make you great again.

The House is already in R control, the Senate has been or is about to be called for them.  Congressional approval isn’t going to be a problem.