This is such a YMMV thing, kind of like the “are turbo braps good” debate of the previous gen. Yes, FE cars (and the ID.R) are quieter, but see them driven in anger and they are far from silent. And the sounds you can hear UNDERNEATH the motor whine—the squeal of the brakes, the thump of the suspension, you can get a…

I don’t think BMW has learned everything there is to learn from Formula E so much as BMW is just outrageously, intensely, staggeringly arrogant. I’m not sure why this is since their cars, while excellent in many ways, are not particularly better than plenty of other offerings at comparable price points.

(looks at state of BMW’s electric car offerings)

No they haven’t. 

BMW says it has learned everything?

2nd:

At this point, there’s almost no reason left to not require vehicles to be hybrid at least. Batteries have gotten smaller and cheaper, and the price premium has shrunk dramatically. A standard Honda Insight LX is about $22,631 where the Civic LX is $20,916 (true car average prices). They’re almost identical in…

1st Gear: “The fact that we announced … that we’ll have 30 vehicles by 2025, two-thirds of them in the United States, and a goal to have over a million, it’s not window dressing,”

1st Gear: Corporations donate to both sides all the time, they gotta grease all the bits.

1st Gear: I think we can cut Mary Barra some slack here. Her job is to advocate for what’s good for GM, period. She is going to saddle up with whoever is in office out of sheer pragmatism.

As has been alluded to elsewhere, the problem here is almost universally that people have the settings on their displays set to absolute garbage, so when you try to calibrate software against it you end up with this insane gamma curve with crushed blacks and all other sorts of unsightliness because the default…

Exactly! honestly sometimes I think they should just take away the brightness control and all TVs should have “vivid” mode removed by law. So many people out here watching tv with primary colors blasted too 100% saturation and no blacks at all.

Every time I see an article like this it just reminds me, as is even pointed out in the body of the article itself, that almost no one has a properly calibrated monitor or TV.

There’s nothing wrong with incentives, if they’re used properly and are time-boxed. The problem in the US isn’t the incentives per se, its the toxic lobbyist and corporate political contribution culture that ensures once you have them, politicians are incentivized to keep them. The US suffers from regulatory capture…

By answering the question that was asked of him, and doing so in a reasonable manner?

I just cringe at the acting in so many Japanese live action movies (I’m a Japanese-American dude that speaks Japanese natively).

I love the line of thinking that Japan is somehow this magical land that creates good anime adaptations. Their adaptations are just as bad, a lot of the time worse. They don’t have the budgets for costumes or CGI even if they respect the property more in some cases.

With that said, the Kenshin movies were good but…

I think it helps that they were adapted by Japanese studios, not Hollywood.

I agree with you. Since the WiiU, Nintendo accepted his niche and saw the potential gain of going WITH Sony and Microsoft and not AGAINST. It’s a win-win situation for them right now.

I wish this was a common thing among competitors and not just within the gaming industry. You don’t know how stupid it is that you can get fired for having preferences outside of the company you work with; like getting fired for drinking Coca-Cola in a Pepsi Factory.

This does not mean that Musk has $127.9 billion in liquid cash; rather, Bloomberg says that around three-quarters of Musk’s wealth is in Tesla stock, mostly options that he can’t cash out for years.

I was of course disappointed in the relegation, but it makes sense, from many angles.