Get rid of the seats and make it standing room only. I've experienced the rush hour subway in Japan... same thing. You'll really be able to improve passenger efficiency. Tight enough and people could sleep standing up.

Driving 2000 miles on a single fuel load is only useful on a team drive (2 drivers taking turns driving/resting). Most trucks move roughly 500 miles in a day due to mandatory rest periods.

With proper charging infrastructure, which Tesla has shown they are willing to help build, these could be viable for long hauls with negligible impacts to recharging/refueling times if paired with rest facilities. What I envision is a rest stop with charging stations set up next to each parking spot that can charge back up to near full charge within 6 hours. Driver able to plug in and rest while it charges.

I was at a conference last year and met some folks from tesla that were part of this project. They did the expected cost should be on par with a diesel truck.

As a rule of thumb, 500 miles is about the max a driver can move in a day before running out of hours, so if they can build up a network on the interstates to support, it could work. In addition to long haul deliveries, local deliveries (LTL) are daily loops going a couple hundred miles max per day and ending back at the point of origin. That would be a great use case for these.

I'm amazed all my friends and I survived the 80s and 90s without cell phones. Can't believe the doors and windows were unlocked, such a travesty!

On a more serious note, schools still have PA systems. Teachers will still have their phones available...

My son's middle school is roughly 60% Indian. I think Indian kids assimilate into American culture much easier than another other ethnic group I've experienced. The parents, not so much.

I have a woman from India on my team, they've been in the US since the early 90s. She complains the newer immigrants bring along the biases and divisions that exist within India to the US. Of course we had that same type of issues in the 19th and early 20th century. Each new group of immigrants was looked down upon by the previous group of immigrants.

It takes awhile to assimilate and there's nothing wrong with keeping in touch with your own culture.. just don't expect the "natives" to always approve.

While I know it's been happening for awhile, it became the "norm" within the last 10-20 years. H1B stopped being about bringing in the best and brightest and more about who would do the work for the least amount of money, at least in the IT sector.

Everyone knows H1B needs better guardrails. The only way to make it painful for companies that abuse the system is hit them from a tax standpoint. Even if there was a huge shortage of IT professionals, forcing a higher tax rate to receive H1B workers may have them decide to invest in domestic talent.

I think at least one parent should be a citizen at the time of birth but that doesn't change the fact it was allowed so it's wrong to try and review that now. Change the rule so it applies moving forward but don't revoke citizenship for no legal reason.

Returned from an overseas trip earlier this month. Watched multiple Latino families with green cards get escorted away for additional screening while not a single Asian or Caucasian was held up for more than 30 seconds.

Small sample size and impossible to know all the circumstances but a troubling trend none the less.

Anyone claiming race/ethnicity is not playing a big part in the screening process right now had their head buried.

It's amazing how most of the world can operate a restaurant without the tipping culture and survive but somehow we can't figure it out in the US.

There is so much overhead in most US restaurants because everyone wants to be everything to everyone. Elsewhere in the world you see much more specialization, find one thing you are extremely good at and focus there.

Racing sucks when no one makes any passes. The cars had gotten so quick and large that passing became nearly impossible on many of the established tracks.

DRS was a way to give the trailing car a much better opportunity to overtake. Without it, may as well declare the winner after qualifying.

I always thought DRS was lame, basically a reward for being behind.... but something had to be done to help those cars get a chance to overtake.

Can I borrow some worchestershire sauce?

I'll second that sentiment.

What I hate are the EV drivers that park in charging spacing but don't charge. I see it at the local grocery quite often.

EOs like this shouldnt be worth the price of the paper they are written on

Especially those signed in crayon.

Because they have no real ability to do it at this time, not controlling any branch of the government.

But after the next major election cycle, they may gain enough seats to actually do something about it.

Right now they are setting up a campaigning point - telling the general population that if they are given the power they will make a move that aims to benefit consumers. Also, this type of move can be made to paint Republicans into a corner, make them go on record supporting such a deal and use that against them during the election. "Remember when your Republican representative approved this merger and then Netflix raised their prices another $5/month?"

It's amazing how cheap food is in Japan yet somehow they don't have to rely on customers providing most of the employee salary directly through tips.

Oh yeah, in most places around the world they don't have franchise fees funneling profits up to the executives and share holders.