Police vehicles should be required to be brightly colored so they can be quickly identified. They are emergency vehicles, not fashion accessories. Imagine a fire truck or ambulance that was murdered out and how ridiculous that would be.

Thats it... thats all you have to do.

I was going to say “ban unmarked cruisers,” but I have a feeling that black markings on all-black vehicles is some kind of technicality so the cops can say “but it’s marked!!!”  Not that it would’ve mattered in this case, but still.  Who’s going to see their ghost decals at 5 AM?

At some point, SURELY some people will start to realize that building and buying houses near the FL coast is a pretty bad idea. When I was a kid the only older houses I recall seeing near the beach were ones made out of concrete and cinder blocks. None of the newer McMansions they built ever since will stand a chance. 

And enough idiots will watch the video to get him enough views to reward the idiot with another one that he can crash, rinse and repeat.  Social media is so fucking dumb, but that’s only because most people are so fucking dumb.

Repulsive little twat.

When I worked in clothing retail, I (an introvert) would beg to spend large chunks of my shifts managing inventory and dressing the store, rather than aggressively upselling our customers. One day I was reorganizing the stock room and uncovered an entire box of beautiful dresses that I’d never seen before, not even on…

Nope. The cost of everything, including childcare, plus their commitments to their full time and part time jobs (so they can feed them) give them no time for procreation. Only slightly sarcastic. And people who actually believe in family planning tend to be more responsible regarding numbers and cost.

I believe the thinking is that it’s yet another expense involved with raising a child.

Car seats aren’t the problem, it’s the screaming little monsters that sit in them.

See, the real problem at Jalopnik is that most of you are <30 (for the little ones out there, “<” means “less than”). So of course you do not realize you you don’t know anything and you think everyone thinks like you. I don’t listen to AM, but I know many who do. And a trade industry publication arguing that using the…

We used a battery operated AM radio during Sandy when my city was pretty decimated. Ironically, something like this AM radio mandate would probably benefit poor white rural Americans more than anything, so of course the politicians they vote for will oppose it. So fuck them. As someone living in NJ, usually ranked the…

The cost to add AM radio is minimal, regardless of what these “estimates” say. These days, a complete AM radio chip (essentially just RF and IF sections, as the amplifier is a separate set of IC’s), costs next to nothing. Shielding and a ferrite antenna costs slightly more, but still very little. Interface is…

NPR and college radio are on the low FM in my area. Not perfect but infinitely better than zombie Rush Limbaugh.

Technologically, AM radio is probably the cheapest, most robust way to reach the most people quickly.

Those island will be long underwater. How about on top of a nice butte somewhere in Wyoming or Montana? Or maybe atop a mesa in the arid southwest.

This is exactly what first should be electrified: any vehicle that runs the same limited route, day after day, and returns home to recharge each night. Every mail truck, school bus, city bus should be an EV ASAP.

When you lose friends - and I suspect you already have - know that it’s in part due to stupid opinions like this.

I would argue that the appearance is a feature, not a bug. For a vehicle aimed at such a dedicated use, having an unusual look is a big plus. You immediately know what it is, and you have a good idea of what it is likely to do. Sometimes I come up on the white vans that USPS is using now and I don’t know just it’s…

For something as essential and utilitarian as a postal truck, it’s nice that appearance was the least important factor and they went all in on function. Hopefully, the reliability is just as good as the form factor.