Dr. Dabbles

All NHTSA recalls are, by definition, safety recalls. They’re literally called safety recalls and they are only issued for safety defects.

Strong disagree, a recall is a notice of defect which broken software qualifies as a defect. Call it a recall, let Tesla twist in the wind with their dogshit software.

For compariso’s sake, waymo claimed to be doing 50k rides per day back in July and Uber did 2.12 billion rides in 2023 or just under 40.8 million rides per day. Waymo is still a gadget, they still don’t have a general application to solving fully autonomous driving, let alone doing so everywhere.

So this news is either very very late and only meant for sensationalism, or the previous note about 50k rides per day was a complete fabrication based on a one time peak rate. Either way, one of them is nonsense which means neither of them is really meaningful.

So you can drive about 80 “city” miles round trip for $16k? That’s insanely overpriced. For 25% more you can get a Zero with 100% more range. Of you can drive 72 “city” miles for $2k less. 8 miles for $2,000?? What? And this is all presuming you’ve got LFP cells in there charged to 90% before you ride, and you come right back home.

Good range for a city bike, sure. Bad range for anybody commuting into the city from the suburbs. And the price is foolish high for what you get.

Normal as in the existence of a coupon doesn’t determine if I fulfill my needs at a store.

Same waymos that are unable to navigate a parking lot around each other. Yeah, gonna go ahead and press doubt on this bullshit.

Zero is a fine motorcycle. I assume you’ve done your homework about EV bikes and you understand what you’re doing.

Imagine already having a cheap, chintzy interior and thinking to yourself, “I bet we can screw our customers over even worse”. Wow.

I shop for convenience and brands I prefer. One store has some items I prefer over the others. That’s to say I shop like a normal person.

Nobody said it made the list for you. The idea was moronic that it would tell you when to get these things. Which is idiotic because YOU ALREADY NEED IT.

If you relied on shitty software less your reading comprehension would be better.

It doesn’t make sense to me and I’ve got three grocery stores and a walmart within miles of me.

I got what you were saying, it’s just not something I can imagine ever caring that much about. Either I need a notebook or I don’t. I’m out of grapes and want some or I don’t. I don’t need a shoddy piece of software to tell me any of those things. And attempting to micro optimize for sale events? Like, this just isn’t a sensible way to live your life.

Same kind of people that think we can effectively pump enough CO2 out of the air, and other idiotic climate solution magic. Wishers that want to keep consumption at all time highs, basically.

I’m not sure how that’s a useful thing besides convincing people to spend money on something they done need? Like, you either need a product at the grocery store or you don’t. I don’t need corpo bullshit ad bots to beg me to buy shit.

It’s almost like he’s been a purveyor of misinformation all along and people only care now for some reason.

You must speak on my free speech platform, and you have to pay me for it. Or else!

• Apartheid Clyde

You’re talking 25% off MSRP, or worse a locally adjusted market price which isn’t the price people should pay. It’s a suggested price. You should be paying invoice price plus a margin for dealer profit. It would really help for people to know how products sell and what the various prices are, because not knowing these things leads to mistakes like thinking you got an amazing deal by discounting MSRP or even a local market price rather than moving upward from invoice price.

I think you need to look into how dealer pricing works, because you’re making a lot of common incorrect assumptions. The dealer’s margin on a new vehicle is, like 2%. They make a third of their revenue from accessories, a third or more from repair work, and the rest from financing finders fees.

You got 25% off a car because either it was used, or the manufacturer kicked in incentives. Not because a dealer could afford to give you 25% off.

Also, LMAO on hydrogen.

Because the Olympics aren’t good for anything but ruining nations and memes.

No climate scientist claims to know what absolutely WILL happen.

… this is easily the most foolish thing I’ve seen someone say online. What the fuck do you think climate science is?

Anyway, bye. Enjoy that sand you’re huffing.