What the hell's wrong with companies screening out possibly great fits with software? I would hope companies would be pissed with even one false positive.

By spinning on public roads then laughing as you pass traffic? Driving slow in snow doesn't show lack of skill, it shows responsibility.

Sorry for expecting other drivers, including the writer of an automotive blog, to be responsible.

So you stereotype me and threaten to shoot me?

You know shit about plowing.

I've just spun 360 degrees on an empty highway because the car has rear-wheel drive and all-season tires.
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streaming past timid commuters in four-wheel-drive SUVs and front-wheel-drive compacts.

I take it you concede? I don't quite understand why you're so eager to give up liberty.

No, GM should have failed, just like AMC. It would not have resulted in widespread closures, because the demand still exists and other manufacturers would have absorbed GM. GM would most likely have liquidated it's assets and other companies would have bid on and purchased all those plants. This is how business works.…

I wasn't talking 10-wheelers, idiot.

That's a preamble. It states the purpose for what follows. You really think the Founders would put that much power in the hands of the Federal government?

Show me where in Article 1 Section 8 Congress is authorized to collect taxes for the sole purpose of supporting failing business?

Does it matter? It's still $12bn that should have never gone from public to private hands.

A few weeks ago when we got hit with that storm a plow driver was busted for OUI, 0.28, IIRC. At about 5 o' clock on Friday. Same storm, I almost T-boned a plow backing out of a driveway blind. Given my somewhat limited experience in snow removal, I can say most Jalops could probably operate a plow better than some of…

$12bn of treasury money, which was involuntarily taken from me and millions of others, "isn't that bad"?

It legally eliminates their liability. But if fans feel unsafe ticket sales will reflect that. So while Saturdays wreck may have attracted television viewers for Sunday, it could hurt ticket sales. So while a legal responsibility is non-existent, capitalism will remain boss.

Woosh?

Okay, so who pays for damages? The track? NASCAR? The driver? There's a whole multitude of reasons why there's a disclaimer on the back. The biggest of which, disclaimers are standard everywhere on everything you purchase.  Can you even name where NASCAR should be focusing as far spectator safety goes? Because the…

or the usual boring reasons of complexity and cost, hydrofoils never really took off

Must be the idea, not the implementation. Better push more slush boxes, I guess.

I don't know, maybe all the time and money invested in spectator safety plays a role. I mean, catch fencing isn't free. Neither is all the changes they made after Carl Edwards' crash at Talladega. Neither is the wind tunnels where they develop rule packages to keep cars planted.