Only one EV charger at home?!

I can see in the hoses that the lock was actually removed, there remains the holes for it in the metal.

My lady friend never goes to self service gas stations. There are a few places here that are attendant only.

I haven't timed it recently, my hands are busy and the phone is inside the car.

Yes, diesel does foam. The diesel nozzle is wider, too.

Spain.

It is cheaper, too.

Give her a sex change and she'll be less verbose.

My address says "es", thus Spain :-)

:-D

Till relatively recently, the driving test was done only on manual cars. Now you can use an automatic, but you get an specific license that says you can not drive manuals.

I am not sure if there is a male voice. I am not sure I would want one.

Of course, that's the advantage of electrics. I just wondered how they arranged the controls.

Then the brakes must be "by wire", so that the car decides to apply them or not. Makes me a bit uneasy.

My manual (2016 Chevy Colorado) has cruise control.

It was the only pickup truck I could find with a manual that year.

Of course you can drive without a trip plan.

But the car still shoots video of where you've been. And this video is added to the database at Tesla, to be used for mapping (allowing car to navigate, with an expectation of "what comes next").

The cars do enough storage activity, a previous problem was that the NAND flash in the car computer was wearing out. (Car design has changed from 8GB NAND to 64GB NAND.) Since it is eMMC, it is soldered in place.

Oh, but the video stops before it explodes! X'-D

Really, here in the 21st century, manual transmissions make as much sense as dial phones.

Which the kids can't use either.

The website where I got those statistics thinks it's young people.

Sure, but that has always been the case and doesnt explain why there has been a recent increase in the percentage bought.

Are you saying you don't get tested in your own car or the one from the driving school you learnt to drive in ?

That would make it harder to pass the test, in an unfamiliar car.

Yeah, we have the same system in Australia, but you get to supply the car you get tested in.

But not the best cruise control. Honda works fine in traffic jams as well as on the highway and thats not going to work as well in a manual as an automatic because you would need to change gears manually.

I also want a cruise control that tracks the speed limit so that I dont have to do anything except keep steering when I have to slow down in towns on a long trip and slow down automatically in the speed restricted areas like our school zones where you have to change down to a lower than overdrive gear which you use on highways.

There are plenty of videos online of failing to release and pouring petrol all over the forecourt or drivers driving off with the nozzle still left in the filler, snapping hoses off or even pulling pumps over.

The latch mechanism is present on UK pumps (it is a standard design), but the pin is removed to prevent it locking.

I haven't seen a petrol station in the UK with attendant service for many years - although I have seen one within the last 10 years right on the Northern Ireland border. Even there, it is only attendant service at very busy times.

So many Americans can't bring themselves to say the word S*IT or EXCREMENT and say "poop".

In the UK, "poop" is something you'd hear a 3 year old say - "I need to poop!"

We actually have four at the moment. The MG4 EV is the everyday car. The Vauxhall Zafira is the long-distance/tow/7-seater/carrying DIY materials car and also the spare for if my disabled wife wants to go out while I am at work. The Chevrolet Matiz (currently off the road pending an MOT) is only retained for teaching my sons to drive (three sons, each two years from the next). The Robin Hood kit-car is just for fun and also awaiting an MOT when the weather gets better.