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I saw two of those in the same day about six weeks ago. We were picking up my spouse's new Prius after it got transformed into a mermaid (), and OCDetailing had one they were working on. On the way back across the bay, I made a brief stop at Porsche Redwood City, and happened to mention it to...

Yeah, those protons that the Taycan spews out at high speeds are brutal on sensitive marshlands.

If CA were an independent country, it would be close to the top five in terms of economy. About 1 out of every 10 US residents live here. It's a pretty diverse population.

All manufacturers make cars people want. Different people want different cars for different reasons.

In my experience, now and again people are better proofreaders in languages they have learned later in life, precisely because native speakers subconsciously gloss over words (including mistakes). Especially given what I hear as the tone of later responses, here is what I think may have...

*facepalm*...as I totally out myself as having less than zero domain knowledge on things Porsche until four months ago. Note to self: read people's handles out loud at least three times before you come to a conclusion as to what they signify.

I guess my response to this would depend on what sorts of things gov't is planning to do with the data and what sort of data it is. In general terms, my default response would be "because the government's use of the data will be bound by regulations designed to protect/maximize some sort of...

I kept the last couple of sentences because I get the impression that they cast your first one as being more in the realm of practicality than ethical philosophy. If that is indeed true, then everybody can probably stop reading now. With an ethical philosopher hat on, though, I disagree with...

Given the abysmal state of legal protection for privacy under US federal law, I'm grading on a curve.

You should change your profile location to "17 Mile Drive".

I don't see those as mutually exclusive.

I think this is the key - comparison. Based on everything else I've ever read you write, you treat your relationship with your car primarily, if not exclusively, as a one-on-one thing (at least in the non-canine department). Some people (in all markets, I would presume) treat car purchases as...

This is obviously extremely provisional, because I don't even have the car yet, but so far I have been impressed with the way Porsche deals with privacy. Another potential difference is that I live in California, and our CCPA law is stronger than most of the rest of the US (on a par with...

The "headlight gills" (not sure if that's the official name for them or not) are going to be tough to disguise, but if you haven't seen it, https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+model+3+honda+civic+badge&tbm=isch. I'm not 100% sure that it's not just photoshopped, but it's still funny.

I think I'm squarely in the middle ground. I've been driving the same ICE car for 25 years, and told myself I would keep doing that until there was an EV that I was really excited about buying. I suppose the fact that it's a Porsche brought a level of excitement that wasn't present for any other...

I suppose, but I don't know anybody who commutes primarily on abandoned airstrips.

I probably fit in that demo, and here comes the part of the post where I embarrass myself by blowing decades of dust off my undergraduate economics degree. At the time, Adam Smith's supply and demand was taught as the greatest single economic insight, but I have always been more of a Ricardo...

I find the "desert" argument far more persuasive when applied to something like places that sell nutritious food or provide medical care than to public DC charging stations. I would think that far more EV owners have L2 chargers at home than they do operating theaters or farms.

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