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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    There has been a culture, particularly at GM and Toyota it seems, for lower employees to be incentive to not blow the whistle. This is backwards.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    The fine is "up to"... not a minimum. From the article: Toyota got wacked 3 times for their delays at a time when the maximum fine was $17.5 million, so that was still only $66 million for something that I've already shown was shear negligence.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Out of curiosity, when did you see this? I read an article just yesterday about a journalist in his first distance run in a Telsa who, I'm sure, was doing things on purpose to make the tesla look bad. For example, leaving on a 250 mile journey with only a 250 mile charge... of course he ran out of juice on a rural highway at 1am, 3 miles from the charging station and then no one from AAA wanted to flat-bed him because they don't know the procedure. (hint: jumpstarting a tesla is exactly the same as jump starting any other car, except you access the terminals through the nose). And yes, you must jump start a Telsa to wake it up enough to pull it on a flatbed. Reading the entire article its as if he was trying to get stuck. OCN, most of the Telsa owners I've met are well-to-do types who have "thinking" related jobs.... 3 of the Telsa owners I know of here in Pittsburgh work for Carnegie Mellon University (2 in the advanced computing department, one in the advanced propulsion department). Clearly their heads aren't empty. In fact, it's usually the people incapable of open-mindedness and critical thought who tend to be the most empty headed by sheer virtue of refusing to fill up their brains with other ideas and new facts.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    Not impossible, but I'm not sure Lordstown has the capacity.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    One wonders how much extra safety tech Clinton's Fleetwood Brougham even had. I'm sure it was bulletproof and semi-blast resistant, but not much more. I know when GWB got his first DTS, it was one of the first to get the more serious hardware we see today. His second DTS is still in service as a backup car for POTUS.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    What is another recall deterrent that you would suggest? Ideally, if the manufacturers do their jobs, the DoT wouldn't see a penny from these fines.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    I don't see these things as mutually exclusive
  8. Drew Dowdell
    I think it needs to be made painful without making it too painful to develop cars in the first place. If they design something, find a flaw later, and immediately recall, they won't face the fine. But if they wait years and years, or publicly stall like Toyota did, then the fine should be very very painful for the company.... so painful that they have an incentive to not stall.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    it is just enough different in the nose to matter .... and look more attractive.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    I've never been a fan of the looks.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    yes
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Well that's not too shabby.... if it is THAT close to being finished that it is running around with no camo, why even bother with the lame ass refresh they foisted on us at the NY Auto Show?!
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Not meant to be pretty. Meant to be size and fuel efficient.
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  15. Drew Dowdell
    I was planning on doing an article about these and its competitors... thanks for reminding me.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    Dunno what he'd see under the hood... it is empty under there.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    eh... it's still built in China.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    So you bought a Camry? I really don't see the parallel, but okay...
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Over 4,000 employees, some percentage of which are LGBT, moving from states where their marriages are recognized to a state where those marriages are banned. there is going to be some culture shock.
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  21. Drew Dowdell
    Chrome mobile is junk... over half the time, websites can't seem to detect it as a mobile browers and instead render the entire desktop site. I use Dolphin exclusively. Cubi... I think your problem was sticking with Motorola (which is being sold off by Google already). I've been very happy with the three Galaxies I've had (S2, S4, Tab2) My next tablet though will be one of the Lenovo convertibles running Windows 8.1
  22. Drew Dowdell
    looks less ugly than the X6
  23. Drew Dowdell
    OMG No! 2.6 million vehicle do NOT need to be repaired.... a few hundred thousand need to be repaired and the rest are getting new ignition switches because GM has no way of telling which car has defective switches. What GM needs to do is figure out a way that consumers can test their switch, let those who fail the test go first in the recall and then get everyone else later. Many of these cars have been on the road for close to 10 years without issue.... they are safe to drive.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    That's a typo.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    and taxi companies.... don't forget them...
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