Ok, let's be a little more literal here. I HAVE the ability to purchase such a vehicle but I will NOT because I know the ACTUAL price of the car is LOT higher if I have to pay for maintenance.

Is that clear enough? Day 1 sales depend on perceived value and the perceived value is too low for American manufacturers because of terrible manufacturing processes that are engineered to suck as much money as possible from the public.

If your driving skills are not up to snuff, hoping for automatic driving is rational. There is no shame in not being able to drive for whatever reason.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/...

This was posted just a few hours ago, after I made my claims. Dude, this automatic driving stuff is terrible terrible. Yeah, your odds may be better than average as many people are just utterly terrible drivers... but I don't like gambling with my life when an AI/algorithm/whatever is the deciding factor. I trust myself far more and I have reason to do so. Everyone who rides with me trust my driving implicitly and explicitly. My current girlfriend, who is terrified of riding in vehicles, can fall asleep while I am driving. If there are kids in my car (rarely anymore), they fall asleep immediately if they are tired. I think it has to do with my patterns, but it just knocks them out how "unjerkingly" I drive.

Meh. Why not brag a little too? I have the fastest lap record at Pikes Peak International Raceway for a street legal car that drove itself onto the track. My car isn't even that impressive. Certainly not a Ferrari or Porsche; however, I did pass numerous Porsches. :)

On the bright side, I predicted this.

Correct. The exact same as your opinions not mattering. Regardless of any of the stupid crap, Grabbing pieces of a continuous function and calling them discrete will still lead you astray. Listen or not. I do not particularly care. :)

Well yeah. The only purpose of releasing this stuff is so they can point to it and say, "see how friendly we are?". But of course, if anyone looks closely, they realize it was really a friendly gesture, only made to appear like one.

Form without substance. Illusion.

Let the Fascist solve the problem in the way he knows how. Just don't let him have any power or we are all fucked.

Gen Whatever is a stupid fucking way to describe populations. Population growth is a continuous function. Placing arbitrary markers can be useful for scientists, but for the average population, all it does is increase social agitation... which I assume is the purpose. So stop referring to Gen Z or whatever. They are NOT a homogeneous whole. It's alright, go ahead and say, "ok boomer", despite me not being from that arbitrarily defined generation.

"Younger demographics appear to have given up SMS and use other methods of short message communication.", would be the proper way to say it. But then they could be like me who has abandoned WhatsApp, Viber, Tik Tok, Instagram, etc to go back to SMS. So the "new" generation can not be defined in the ways that you seek to define them, just as the older generations can not be defined that way. It is lies all the way down as each person is an individual and each individual's circumstances are unique. There are no "generations".

She bought an American engineered vehicle. What else did she expect? They need to make massive amounts of money and they can't do that strictly through selling cars. So they sell parts and maintenance. What makes parts and maintenance a profit center? Engineering. Do it right, and lots of people will be using your parts and maintenance. PROFIT!

Yeah, don't buy anything designed in America. We are corrupted as fuck at all levels. The product is not designed for you, it is designed to ensure profit flows. Your needs are irrelevant.

Oh my. You are either VERY brave or incredibly stupid. I don't see automatic driving being trustworthy for a hundred years or more. None of the approaches are worthy. The perspective is all wrong. The car does not have to intelligently address everything. Coming to a complete stop is a valid option, but current systems seem to favor acting irrationally rather than merely stopping.

Allowed? Brother, people are allowed to say whatever the fuck they want. If your speech causes things to happen, you may very well be held liable for what happens, but you would be prosecuted not for the speech, but for "inciting panic", or "fraud".

In this case, you are not being induced to buy anything or behave a certain way, so yeah, they can be as misleading as they like and there is nothing you can do about it except whine.

That being said, I am as disgusted as you are by the misrepresentation. The federal government is the only one who can complain, and they aren't, so the lie flies.

Nice cope there bud. The OPs comment still stands:

There is a reason I have not ever owned an American engineered vehicle. The only time an American auto company made reliable and maintainable cars was back in the 1980s after they were bankrupted by their insistence on sales rather than maintenance... and here Ford is, continuing with the same strategy that bankrupted Chrysler (more than once).

I guess I just don't understand why American manufacturers do not respond to market forces. Everyone needs a maintainable vehicle. Very few need a disposable vehicle... and yet here we are with nothing but disposable vehicles available.

Why are you even concerned? Just go lay down and die like the rest of them. You are not part of the ownership class. Your opinion does not matter and you do not matter. You do not even deserve a goodbye, just go.

Does the industrial farm care about their cattle? Only in the loosest of senses. That is you. Cattle. Does the industrial farmer care if their cattle are unhappy? LOL, no. They are food. Nobody cares. Just like nobody cares about you.

Welcome to the modern world with prehistoric attitudes. Enjoy your stay. (we don't really care if you enjoy it, the wish was merely a formality to keep the lie going on in your head)

LOL, ROFLMAO, hahahahahahaa stop bro. You are killing me here. The ONLY thing that matters is money. Customers don't matter, the customer's desires don't matter, the only thing that matters is a captured market that has no choice... for money. More money. Money money money. That is the ONLY thing that exists. Money money money money. Can't focus on anything else, just money money money money. Stop talking to me, I am concentrating. Why yes, I am concentrating about money. Money money money money more money. ALL of the money. I MUST have it now. money money money money.

Fucking disgusting that ANYONE tolerates this shit.

Nobody cares about you. Nobody cares that you are a dad. Your existence is meaningless as are your offspring. Nobody will celebrate life with you as nobody wants you to exist.

Feel motivated to have more children now? Yeah, didn't think so. That is what EVERYONE who is not part of the upper class goes through. That is why birth rates are down. Pay people a reasonable wage and give their concerns some airtime and you just *might* be able to recover this. But nah. Things will continue the way they are until catastrophe changes everything.

You realize that there is physical space for those poor to exist in those "Third World" countries. There is no space at all in America. Where will you sleep? On someone else's property? Oh no no no. Near someone else's property? Oh no no no. On Public Property? Oh no no no. In nature? Only if you want to get shot by the owner. Every single piece of land is claimed. To be outside of society in America is to be pushed from one space to another until you die of exposure or starvation.

Let's see your calculus on this issue in a country that has no space.

Maybe he can't, but I can. It is exactly why I didn't have a lot of kids. Not everyone who is poor is dumb and undisciplined no matter what the numbers say.