It’s not like it would start, anyway ;-)

I pulled someone out of a car that was on fire. They had tumbled end over end a few times and were briefly unconscious; the car had landed on its wheels. There was a small fire in the engine compartment, but there was a lot of liquid coming out from under the car — and I was worried it might be fuel. As it turned…

Yeah, definitely suspicious that pedophilia was where his mind went when thinking about Thailand, from whence he had just returned.

Well, I guess it depends on your taste. Certainly hard to pass at Laguna, but it can be done.  More like watching soccer than basketball.  I think it should be pretty good with the current aero-spec, but we’ll have to see.  Lap times are so short that whatever passing opportunities there are will come around more…

Much less smoke than I remember.

The carbon fiber construction techniques used on the i3 and i8 are legitimately groundbreaking.  I’m interested to both see how that spreads through the BMW product line and how that product line becomes more electric.

Let your douche-flag fly, Santino!

I feel like you’re overthinking this.  

And remember: Don’t Panic.

Well, clearly Travis is paying homage to Evel.  At the same time, Travis has certainly earned his bona fides in terms of catching stupid amounts of air.

Those are nice looking wheels.

Running with the Devil - Van Halen

Hate to see that... Best of luck Stef!

Well, downforce in mowing is hugely important.  For one, high top speed is nothing when you have a yard full of trees you need to mow around -- and downforce gets you cornering speed. Plus, if you go with ground effects, the suction effect lifts the grass firmly so you get a much nicer finish to your cut.  It’s a…

3rd:  Dart SRT would be cool.

Also, the Elasticycle intro scene deserves a nod for her rightly calling it torquey -- knowing what it meant and not overexplaining it in some weird way.

Those Ferris Bueller valets would still be in orbit had they been in one of these.

So I remember reading that they were having a huge problem with theft and vandalism in China when they launched a bunch of dockless bike services.  Did that ever stabilize to a reasonable equilibrium?

Well, I wasn’t saying anything as complicated as that. Just that you don’t need people to abuse them to have half of them be broken. I think it’s probably a semi reasonable strategy for them if they don’t get people too pissed off by having to wade through and report too many broken scooters.

I haven’t seen a lot of abuse taking place — actually haven’t seen any. I’m sure there are some bad actors, but I think they’re just wearing out. These just weren’t built for this much use, though. A single owner would do 1 or two trips a day for a heavy user and less on average. These rental scooters are going to…