Always nice to meet someone who considers me a kid.

For trucks, they don't even need to be Chinese. You can thank the Chicken Tax (yes, this is a real thing), the FMVSS (federal motor vehicle safety standards) and the EPA.

I agree, it's early/speculative. But the exact same was true of Slate not that long ago. Also that's interesting about the "ranchero" (agreed on the double quotes lol), thanks for sharing.

I'm not sure about the badge, but they say they plan to use that name in a vehicle, yes.

To be fair, you're going to have to pay those for any vehicle you buy in the US (significantly less if it's used!)

There is a market segment of people who only want to buy what they need. There's also individuals who just can't afford anything more, but still want a truck. So, many people would take $10-15k off the sticker price of a new vehicle for the mild inconvenience of hand-crank windows or non-leather seats.

GTA VI is probably going to be huge. You'd need a crap ton of discs. Also, the overlap of people who actually play GTA VI and actually have a disc drive in a computer capable of playing GTA VI is microscopic.

Just to reiterate: There are no luxury options, you'd have to buy and install those components yourself. This is the base model.

For those who don't know, REO Trucks is making a similarly lower priced vehicle with a gas engine, manual transmission, and plans to have open source aftermarket support.

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And text responses too.

"But wait, there's more!"

It's super obvious. It's discrimination.

Pokemon is tech news now?

Principle of Oddmatches. If you have a million samples, you can expect to find one-in-a-million incidents.

So I gave this story no credence until The Atlantic denied it.

It's interesting how these multi-billion-dollar AI companies all have such remarkably terrible UI.

A DoS bug lol. Who cares?