They can make a cheaper car. Easily. The CEOs salary proves it. So does the palace you walk into that is the modern stealership showing off how "low" their profit margins are, complete with many layers of management overburden.

Get rid of stealerships. Sell direct. Open up Right to Repair, mandated by Federal law. Stop making 1,001 options standard features. That's the only way you're going to shave the necessary $10 - 20K off the price. And watching the arrogance of stealerships sitting on full lots refusing to lower prices? They're paving the road to this outcome.

That's OK. We are 100% none of them will hold their value the second it rolls off the lot, since society values a used battery about as much as a church values porn.

Most of the profit at the stealership is in the service department. The EV hasn't done them any favors in that regard. Can't survive on brake and tire jobs that Wal-Mart can do at a fraction of the price. And will. Quite frankly, I see EVs becoming more fleet vehicles and business expenses at current prices. Few others will be able to afford them without expense loopholes. Insurance costs alone have become a purchasing factor in any car ownership. New or used.

The actual ones you're talking about from the 1960s would normally be pissed at you for claiming that..if they could remember why.

Technically, it was.

The display just happened to be warehoused in the operational wing. Attached to a power plug. Connected to a wall socket. Powered on. And configured with a slightly insecure password policy, given the server name of "Louvre", the username of "Louvre", the passwo, yeah it's one hell of a museum piece.

Even the ILOVEYOU architects were impressed.

Greed wants to call todays AI solution Good E. Nuff for government work. And most all other work. Layoffs by the thousands have happened under the guise of this over the last 12-18 months.

Reality is still forced to hold the hand of ToddlerAI way too much to see otherwise. Child analogy, checks out.

Wait until that delusional little shit grows up into TeenagerAI and society assumes it's actually right most of the time.

Gen Narcissism should get used to the fact that the Surveillance State bringing the ride itself, is always watching.

You know that whole 5-star rating system society loves to abuse? Goes both ways.

Best not act like a disrespectful cunt in a NotYourCar. You'll find your microchip getting shut off.

https://youtu.be/HJwFG3MsgEU?t...

Expensive? I could pile the next 100 years of wing waste in desert wasteland at U-Haul transit costs and no one would even know it’s there. Including for the most part Mother Nature.

Another planet is what it would cost to deliver the same level of risk dumping nuclear waste. Will we still argue nuclear is greener 100 reactors from now, when city smog glows at night, and cancer rates are 1 in 2 as the boiled-frog norm?

It’s not merely ideal to solve ALL of the waste problem first. It’s necessary. We couldn't even keep Shall Not Be Infringed in check. We cannot assume up-front promises means we’ll secure the necessary give-a-shit regarding nuclear waste forever-maintenance. That’s how waste drums end up being found leaking at the bottom of the ocean wrapped in a Go Green banner. After we starve ourselves looking for answers as to why the food chain was suddenly crippled.

Batteries can be made non-toxic and recyclable a hell of a lot faster than nuclear ever will.

You know what they say. Go Green or Glow Green.

Cracks me up thinking about the first thing ten-thousand Bitcoin bought back in the day: two pizzas.

Now hackers are demanding ransomware payments for what wouldn't even buy a whiff of those pies.

As the world burns..

Wow. You might have just blown the lid off that whole Low-Cost marketing strategy.

The problems you describe were damn near expected inside the price-starting-at model, within the company pushing significant upcharges for soldered-in memory and storage upgrades. Let's hope they've changed tactics.

As we get older and wiser, we realize that damn near everything in life should be under moderation.

If someone hasn't figured out that both diet and regular exercise are vitally important by the time they're called "elderly", divine intervention more explains how they even lived that long.

It's becoming more and more necessary, but I hope the next get-up-and-move app push won't be quite as annoying as Pokemon Go.

Egads. 67 in 6 years? Holy Clickshit Batman. We should fund the addiction wing in the retirement home ASAP. After all those retirees should get busy doing...doing..uh, the fuck else again?

There's a difference between own and addicted to.

Game consoles have been around for half a century now. The only thing my Apple IIc, Sega Genesis, and PS3 consoles are owning, is space in the garage.

ALL car sales have been shit for a while now, due to MSRP+FU pricing arrogance that’s now being marketed as “on sale” at only MSRP+fu pricing. They haven’t lowered greedy markups since COVID. On damn near anything on the lot.

If American car makers think not making EVs is going to generate that “traditional” high profit they like, they should take a walk through their current unsold inventory. See how the rest of that dumpster fire is doing and buy a clue. They wish their flavor of greed and arrogance, was reduced to merely a subsidy problem. You ain’t shoving a cheap flat screen in the trunk to fix this.

Yeah. We see the full picture every day. When we drive by every American new car lot and see how full they are. Your COVID-infected MSRP+FU pricing made that clear. And you greedy fucks deserve nothing less. Fuck your heated seat subscriptions. Fuck your proprietary infotainment. Fuck your touchscreen-everything.

Too Big To Fail? Good luck trying that shit again. If the wealthiest of tree huggers can still find a reason to own a private jet, the rest of society coukd care less about supporting EV “initiatives”. You want EV adoption? Bring back subsidies at 3x, and stop being greedy hypocrites. Otherwise you ain’t selling shit. Which is a personal problem. Stop paying your worthless CEOs millions for not making sales.

Yeah.

The ones profiting from it.