This particular plant is making premium SUVs and pickups, by the sound of it, so already luxury vehicles. It's not like they're making economy cars.

Not with a US carrier group loitering with intent in the area they won't.

I can mentally picture an Olympic swimming pool, that's why.

Yep, definitely. A bigger problem is the additional heat generated, especially if the phone is also being used at the same time.

The last phone I owned that had a propriety cable, apart from Apple, was a Sony-Ericsson Walkman phone. There was also the Sony Xperia phones, but they had USB as well as their proprietary connector. This was well over a decade ago.

Thin skinned bunch, aren't they?

This post backfired spectacularly on OP, didn't it?

Most of your fuel use goes towards overcoming aerodynamic drag, especially at highway speed.

Yeah, if they don't want them undercutting the local workforce, that's fair enough.

Which makes things difficult for the police unfortunately, as it makes the job of figuring out who is a bystander or a participant very difficult.

I wonder what the end goal is for Reddit here? Surely they realise their users will just sabotage the sub in some way?

At best, you come off as a smug prat.