I’d have to replace the horn button with a call bell that had a hidden switch.

I had a cabbie in Shanghai who seemed pretty sure that I was an F1 talent scout and this might be his big break. At least he stopped for the more important-looking red lights, and slowed down and moved over (a little) as we passed the only crash scene I saw — an apparently single-car wipeout of another taxi.

Navigation comes into play as well. There seem to be figurative and literal corner cases that (at least some) self-driving cars can’t get themselves out of. Want to solve every one with a tow truck? Just eliminate even folding, exigent-situation controls for humans, and hey presto!

Yeah, and it offers generous underwing clearance (remember the last time unducted fans were in the news in the 1980s and they had one snugged up to the side of a DC-9?). A press release from GE suggests that they’ll also be using a 747 when flight test begins sometime in the second half of this decade.

Preferably a plug hybrid with a meaningful amount of EV range (why aren’t all hybrids plug hybrids? But I digress...). What letter carriers do with their vehicles on most routes looks like a Home Run Derby pitch for an EV or hybrid.

If a thorough inspection made me think it had indeed spent most of its years in Arizona as claimed rather than Rustapequinthru, Massachusetts, I’d call it a quite decent buy. Nobody is getting one of these for a daily driver at present gas prices, not that you’d ruin a classic with that kind of duty anyway, but it’s a…

A Frank Cannon lookalike great uncle of mine owned a 73 LTD coupe

This, plus:

But in the end Tesla won.

Indeed it is {glances at about ten shelf-feet of CDs in a world of mechless car decks}. About the best bet at the time would have been to dub the 8-tracks from a home 8-track stereo (if you had one, and in the early 80s they too started going away) onto a cassette recorder.

It’s surprisingly hard to get a satisfying answer about the last year when factory 8-track decks were available, though 1983 is sometimes asserted. For sure they were in great decline by 1982, more than a decade into the rise of the cassette.

If you have good taste, it’s not difficult at all to spend a few thousand on just one suit. (I hope that at least you get two pairs of pants.)

I don’t know if they still do that, but for a while I was doing a bit of US-Europe work travel, and Delta had a codeshare with Air France that satisfied the requirement that we fly on US carriers whenever there was a choice. Clever scrutiny of the information when booking could let you tell which one was going to…

It’s small sample statistics so far, but we need more Jane Campion and Holly Hunter.  

Of course, there are also people who would stand in the street raving because of mental illness, but it can be hard to determine causality because once you get to that level, “dual diagnosis” is pretty common.  And in a society that treats both debilitating levels of addiction and severe mental health problems with…

around here in Mo its either Meth or fentanyl.

...and if I’m not mistaken, this figure comes from a definition of “urban area” encompassing groupings of at least 2,500 people, which doubtless encompasses a lot of places that would be happy to get a Subway, let alone a funky-cool Oldenburgian-third-place gourmet sandwich shop. It’s a concept that goes back to the…

So how do they handle both the logistics and the customs aspects of a whole planeload of delayed (agreed, not lost) luggage coming in after the owners have arrived and scattered to Dog only knows where via air connections and ground travel?

Whatever you think of the car (I rather like it), you’ve got to admit that The Funky Teardrops absolutely has to become the name of a band.

Street-parked cars are actually one of the cool aspects of Seinfeld. I want that yellow CRX.