Counterpoint: How often do cops issue tickets for reckless driving in a low speed rear ending? And on private property? I’ve been rear ended at a stop sign. No ticket issued. One time I was hit in a parking lot I managed to flag a cop. He did nothing because it wasn’t on the street.
Bob
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Went down like Neymar after a small foul.
Not sure if we are on the ‘popular’ or ‘unpopular’ swing on front-engined Porsches right now, which will determine if people agree with me or not, but I have to say that this is an abomination.
Fraud can happen in any business or non-profit. Jalopnik lists it on account of the automotive link. As a CPA / auditor, I don’t think automotive restoration and tuner companies are necessarily any more susceptible than a typical closely held business with poor controls. I am sorry to hear that even with classic cars,…
“Billions of people around the globe will soon be buying products proudly stamped ‘Made in the USA.’”
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…
It’s just so exhausting to have to explain this over and over, isn’t it? The entire g-d point of having something like AM radio around is that cell phones won’t fucking work during a true disaster/emergency, yet people keep shouting “yOu CaN juSt dO iT On YOuR PHoNe!!! It’s as ridiculous as someone arguing that it’s…
One of my great memories as a kid is sitting in the backseat on the way home the the grandparents while my dad tunes the radio trying to nail WSM to listen to the Grand Ole Opry some 400 miles away. With FM you either have a signal or you don’t. With AM, you have some leeway as it fades in and out. Those 50,000 watts…
Someone died in that crosswalk in 2014, hit by a driver. The flashing yellow light wasn’t enough, so now SFMTA is adding a stop light. (The intersection in question is down on the southern end of Sunset Boulevard, just a block north of Sloat).
NPR and college radio are on the low FM in my area. Not perfect but infinitely better than zombie Rush Limbaugh.
AM bands typically are longer wavelengths, which don’t fit into tiny cell phone antennas. To make it more compact a large chunk of ferrite can help, but it doesn’t do it all. The radio reception for tiny receivers use the headphone as the antenna, but that’s not necessarily the right length to be properly tuned.
Yes, it’s awesome to find an AM radio broadcast of Coast to Coast AM during a night drive down a dimly lit country road. It’s the best way to consume tales of sasquatches and alien visitations.
Agreed. The fact that nearly nobody has an AM radio anywhere but in their car and that it might be the last lifeline in the event of something tragic - it seems like a reasonable expectation that all cars would continue to have it.
First of all, I always take cost estimates like those with a large grain of salt. “3.8 billion dollars between now and 2030" parceled out over an estimated 85 million cars sold between 2025 and 2030 (17 million per year) is about $45 per car. Not the end of the world. Also not the use of the word “could,” not “would.”…
AM radio turns any night behind the wheel into a trip.
why such an exorbitant fine?
Also no parking zones maybe 50 feet from the crosswalk entrance would help a lot as well.
Willson saw the vessel listed on Craigslist in 2008, the ship was well past its prime.
The ONLY one I have even the tiniest shred of sympathy for.