I'm not certain about what you think the average car buyer here is - certainly in my area of PA there aren't a lot of large vehicles - unless you consider a Jeep large. And where I live, 4WD is nice to have around the house. Our weather can be chaotic. There are the occasional Suburbans, but the huge truck craze is largely gone, after they priced themselves out of the market. You have to be pretty wealthy to buy one of those 100K trucks.

But a city car, the tiny things, they really aren't all that practical for driving in my area.

Not certain if you are referring to the weird used car craze we had a few years back here in the USA. Covid times. At the time, I had a Jeep Renegade. I was at a dealership known for decent prices. At the time my care was 2 years old. There was an identical Renegade they were selling for something like 3 thousand over what I paid.

The rejection of science and reality went pretty deep. The strange agenda that men and women are defined by what they say they are was not quite sane - fortunately that has cooled down now. Ironically, it placed women back to the tyranny of men, after all the work women did to become equal. And getting death threats if you dare to say that genetics is the determinant factor. Or at the very least, utter rejection if you say that if an adult wishes to modify their body to pretend that they are the other sex, it is fine, but it should be by people able to give legal consent.

So people got the Republican's better messaging - they often simply reported facts. The Seth Moulton saga. The people fired because they wouldn't use personal pronouns, the testimony of children damaged by the invasiveness of transitioning and paying dearly for the results of surgery and injection of powerful chemicals. The in your face rejection of labor unions, once part of the base.

Meanwhile the democrats message was the cringy men for Kamala ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... that is what they think men are.

Or the real core of 2024 Democrat thought: Vote against your husband. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Julia Roberts, an extremely wealthy woman, tells other women that their Husbands have to be opposed, and her stereotyped husband is obviously stupid in the ad.

Probably not but they do seem to think chatbots are the same thing as robocop

That's only one of the reasons the Dems got their asses kicked in 2024. How bad can a party be when an Orange shitgibbon gets (re)elected as a result of party "missteps"?

Fix is not too difficult:

Come back closer to center

Reclaim the working class rather than reject it.

Lose the misandry

Lose the rejection of science and biology.

Back off a bit on the pop culture worship.

Be more actually inclusive. If a party claims inclusivity yet casts out those who I noted above, you ain't inclusive. Finally, don't throw hatred on those who have the audacity to be introspective and try to fix things rather than double down on what caused the curb stomping. Disagreement is fine. The standard soundbite quality insults are not. That makes people look like the equivalent of slash dotters using mod points of troll of flamebait, when they just disagree.

If people can buy a new car for not much more than a used one, and it's more efficient and comfortable, they just might.

Wow, you have a lot of trouble with basic reading comprehension!

Before you reply to another one of my posts, find an adult to help you understand it.

My insurance keeps going up because private insurance in America has a monopoly on access to healthcare so they can charge whatever they want until the public gets so fed up they demand a single pair of healthcare system.

If things continue the way they're going with voter suppression and right wing extremists buying up the voting machine companies I don't think it'll matter anymore and then that will be the end of that. About 10% of the country will be allowed to have health care and odds are you won't be in it.

And the answer is 0.13%.

What? We're you expecting a different answer?

AI is designed to take shortcuts in order to improve performance. It's already been caught more than once for example appearing to find problems on an X-ray with a very high rate of success when in actuality it had just picked up on a simple pattern where for example something is dumb as a ruler was included on the X-rays that had the problems and wasn't included on an X-ray that didn't...

Not that any of us have any say in this whatsoever. AI bullshit is going to dominate everything whether we like it or not. Just like how the price of ram has increased by 5 to 10 times and we all just have to suck it down.

We have a very small window left to the side of we are going to live in a society where around 2,000 people get to decide how we live. And we need to decide if having the girl that hands us our coffee say Merry Christmas is worth giving up everything else to those 2,000 people.

Not being constitutional has never stopped Trump in the past why should it stop us?

I mean at this point Trump has wiped his ass with the Constitution so many times it's going to take a full rewrites to get the shit stains out.

Assuming We don't have a third term of Trump. He might be too senile. Multiple doctors have mentioned that it's likely the bumps and bruises on his hands are from an IV drip for an Alzheimer's medication. And if he's that far along he's not going to make it to 2028.

He's trying to solve the affordability crisis he created.

To deal with the affordability crisis. It doesn't work because if you get hit in one of those by an American SUV you might as well have gotten hit on a motorcycle. Hell you might be better off getting hit on a motorcycle is a small chance you wouldn' Get thrown clear instead of grinded into paste

The other problem is they aren't fast enough for freeways. Even the ones that can hit freeway speeds can't accelerate quickly enough to safely merge.

And of course there are much lower profit so nobody is going to want to make them. If a competitor company started to make them then it would get bought out and shut down similar to how Microsoft buys out and shuts down anyone that threatens their windows or office Monopoly...

It's a completely unworkable solution to a problem Trump created himself.

Joe Biden was on track to do the kind of trust busting we needed to do in order to start getting prices down. He had already gotten inflation to around 2%. But Trump wanted 2 trillion and billionaire tax cuts and to get that he needed to raise taxes on you. So he did tariffs. Basically a national sales tax so he could pick your pocket and put the money in his pocket and the pockets of his billionaire buddies who bankrolled his campaign. Meanwhile he's gotten millions of dollars from the trusts Biden was going to bust. So you can imagine what happened to those investigations...

Affordability is a political problem and we aren't going to solve it by electing convicted felons with multiple credible rape accusations.

Are the same people who want put these back doors in your devices so they can monitor "criminals".

I'm not saying we ease off to Chinese, we got to keep that cold war going somehow or people are going to start trying to cut the fence budgets and redirect them to education and we can't have that now can we?

But maybe ask if you're the dog the tail is wagging.

Some cars do not have integrated gsrage door openers. I have one that uses bluetooth and works great, no network needed.