Did you not notice the 3rd black person in the passenger seat?

You're allowed to have your instructor along- I didn't.

In the UK you are required to bring your own car in that the examiner won't provide one, but most people take the test in their instructor's car. You can take the test in any car you're insured to drive, as long as it has a second rear-view mirror for the examiner and meets certain other requirements- the passenger…

If you want a crankshaft, go for a crankshaft from one of these. It's a 1924 Hispano-Suiza H6. The crankshaft of the 6.5-litre aluminium-block ohc straight six weighed 35 lb, and was machined from a single piece of billet steel weighing 600 lb!

Well, to be fair, for the 2 years between when she resigned and when she stood down from her Commons seat, her only title was the "Lady Thatcher" she got through Denis's baronetcy.

So did I (also under 25). Also, chemistry labs buy a lot of them for cleaning inside small pieces of glassware, especially NMR tubes (a glass tube 9 inches long with an internal diameter of 4 mm).

A baronet isn't really a peer, and he was only made one when she resigned as PM anyway (2 years later she was made a Baroness, so outranked him).

If it was going to be a fire truck, why not a Quattroporte fire truck?

Well, ice cream vans in Glasgow were used to sell drugs from, and the routes were controlled by organised crime, resulting in the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars:

The "loophole" I'm talking about is that the G-Wiz would be too heavy to count as one, except that the rules state that electric cars are weighed without batteries. Of course, the heavy batteries don't do anything for crashworthiness...

European-market ones will apparently do 50. The US ones are NEVs so are limited to 25. But still, everything is relative, and it doesn't matter how slow you are going if the car that hits you is going fast. The one G-Wiz fatality I know of, the driver was on her phone when she pulled out without looking onto a road…

The Reva G-Wiz electric vehicle. The crash test dummy couldn't be removed after this test without dismembering it.

I thought the main point of that (not going to watch a whole hour of clips) was to catch other lorry drivers doing stupid things, as they have the height to see into the cab. They caught several talking on the phone, using laptops, watching TV, and in one case cooking a meal!

This one's all right, just ignore the car.

They're allowed to speed if "for a police purpose", ie in a chase or on their way to respond to an emergency call, as are the police pretty much anywhere in the world (except IIRC Japan). Only "response-trained" drivers are allowed to speed, but then pretty much any officer who regularly drives patrol cars has…

They're allowed to drive on both if safe and necessary, as are other emergency vehicles (I saw an ambulance driving on the right to get around a line of traffic today).

Well, certainly here in Britain police are allowed to speed whether or not they've got their lights flashing, as there could be valid operational reasons for them to have to do so. On the other hand, police here don't get to drive their patrol cars off duty (they leave them at the station) so this couldn't have…

On the one hand, he was born during the Pahlavi regime, and in fact originally came to the US as a refugee in 1980 after the revolution. On the other hand, I'd hardly call the Shah "liberal":

Neither of the 2 manual cars my family own are started by turning the key. The FIAT 500 is started by pulling up the choke lever, pulling up the starter lever and pumping the gas pedal. The Volvo PV544 is started by pulling the choke out of the dashboard, pumping the gas pedal twice, and pressing the starter button.…

Not to mention cities where pedestrians would be within the radius of the jammer, or genuine emergencies. I have had to call the emergency services from a moving car, after the rear bumper fell off of the car in front on a motorway.