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That was my experience and why I never bought one.

None of that would make a normal functioning adult want to hurt other people. It seems to me that if you think it is okay to harm others because they are inconveniencing you that is a pretty clear sign you should not be allowed to drive a motor vehicle under any circumstances. And probably not...

I have to wonder at how broken someone has to be inside to think it is okay or funny to grievously harm (or perhaps even murder) someone who is inconveniencing them. Morally and intellectually it makes as much sense as shooting someone at a self-checkout in Wal Mart because they are taking too...

On a totally different topic: In 1957, Ian Fleming (who in my opinion shouldn't have ever been allowed to publish books because he is an awful writer) wrote a work of fiction where the Bad Guy was a multibillionaire industrialist who built rocket ships, was a nazi, and had a plan to destroy the...

In fairness, one thing I thing the G is trying to do is to make SMS messaging somewhat less insecure and unreliable. The problem is that nearly all 2FA systems we use every day depend on SMS and SMS is also notoriously easy for fraudsters to spoof. Since we commonly use 2FA for banking and...

No need to. You can find images of diesel electric locomotives where their dynamic braking resistors are glowing red-hot. Diesel electric locomotives use the same principle in their braking system as regen in their EVs. But they don't have a big battery to charge so they just run it through a...

Yes, most do. But most also have traditional brakes for a few good reasons. One big one is that regen isn't going to work very well when the battery is full or nearly full. Another is that often regen won't bring you to a complete stop and won't stop you very efficiently or quickly when you...

I don't think you can draw many conclusions about society or culture from a car that probably is only going to be sold to about 100 people. The Cadillac Celestiq is priced in the low 400s. No matter what they charge for it I'll always see it as just another POS from General Motors. The...

Kind of interesting how someone can argue that EVs are a scam when 98 percent of new vehicles in some countries are EVs. You all need to remember that the Untied States is not the whole world and at this point not even the most advanced part of the world. There were a long list of personal...

It is important to remember that most pickups in the Untied States don't work for a living. The reality is that most of them are about lifestyle and cultural branding. Which when you think about it is bizarre. Kind of like those primitive cultures that elongate their lips, earlobes, or necks.

Yes, we all know how UFC broadens the cultural experience so much.

Yeah, but most Japanese, European, and Korean automakers are also screwing up the transition to electrics. This is ironic because nearly all of the engineering problems that would be a barrier to widespread adoption have been solved. And all of the "issues" the FUD-mongers push are rapidly...

Actually if you are into hyper-miling and ebike the Sweet Spot is 10-12mph. And it isn't a coincidence that long-distance bike tourers converge on an average speed in that range.

Economics 101 teaches us that the only cases where sellers can past 100 percent of a cost increase onto buyers is if (1) there is zero competition, (2) the demand is 100 percent inelastic, or (3) the product is so cheap nobody really cares about a price increase. If there is an otherwise...

This is why the Chinese will destroy every other auto company in the world: The Bestune Pony costs $4800 and has a 200km range. Yes, that might seem small but it is cheaper and has far better range than a lot of e-bikes. And yes, it is kind of cheesy and inadequate and to build one that met...

Somebody is certainly deranged, I agree.

I think a big difference between 2022 and 2026 is that 2026 was self-inflicted by a President didn't go through any of the processes to get the public or Congress on board. So you could argue that this war was unlawful from the get-go and we citizens are paying the price for someone else's...

I am describing how eighty percent of the country by area works and how twenty percent of the population in that area has to live. This didn't happen overnight -- this is what decades of car dependence has done to our society. You can make all of the arguments about moving somewhere else you...

Of course the boneheads in the White House finds this all very inconvenient. Where I live there are quite a few people who commute 100+ miles per day. And it is a 100 mile roundtrip to Wal-Mart and a 200 mile roundtrip to Costco. This is also a very Republican-leaning area, and I suspect...