California has an annual property tax on boats, (and cars, too!) in addition to the sales tax. But Florida does not.

From my read, Florida only taxes the sale of a boat, (One time) and does NOT have an annual property tax on them. Here in California, and many other states, there is a annual property tax on boats, on top of the sales tax. So not only is the county missing out because of the $18k cap, they are also “missing out” on…

Millions of people live in close proximity to nuclear waste now, they just don’t think about it.

A “stunt” usually refers to intentionally risky behavior. The fact that movie stunts are handled with extreme precautions doesn’t change that. If we just called it a crash, then that would downplay the intentionally risky part. Lots of people have had crashes that were not intentional.

No, these are not general purpose chips for the most part. Many of them are designed for specific use in a specific car part. Tesla has had some luck repurposing chips for some of their shortages, but that was likely because Tesla already designed such parts in a more modular way, and does more parts in-house. For…

What I don’t get from the 4th gear section is: why does reduced demand (not shipping used cars to Russia) cause a price spike?

True that draining them reduces the fire risk, but it also causes permanent damage to the capacity of the battery. (Not a concern in your case of a battery recall, since they are not going to use them anymore.)

Lead acid at 12V doesn’t have the extra fire risk that a 600V lithium ion pack does.

Having a loose cable flopping around is more dangerous than a properly connected battery. And you don’t want to be anywhere near the battery terminals of a 600V battery. (Also not something I’d want to leave for the dock workers to do.)

There is some reduction of fire risk if the cell is discharged, but lithium cells are not designed to sit discharged for a long time, it will damage their future capacity. And if they are ever fully discharged, they will never be useful again.

Probably because solving it would require a totally different and heavier design for the overall craft, not just the rotor.

FAA did some testing, and the LiFePo4 cells were drastically safer, even to the point that when one cell was intentionally compromised, it did not heat up enough to trigger adjacent cells.

Some cars are starting to switch to LiFePo4 batteries which have a much lower fire risk.

But the common thread in many of the recent stories about Hertz reporting theft is a clear lack of internal communication about the actual rental status of the car. Multiple stories about confirmed rental payments and/or extensions and it still gets reported.

I also learned pill swallows by using M&Ms. (Back in the 80's!) But it took quite a few tries to get it right.

I thought I was the only one. I think I bought the wrench originally for pipes and such, but it soon found use in the kitchen, and never left. That was 20 years ago, and it’s still the best tool for the job!

I thought the whole point of the turn signal tell tales was they had an optic guide showing the actual turn signal bulb, so it also served as a bulb out indicator.

His comment is dated from a year ago February. They are reusing the article, so the old comments show up, too. (At least the ones that are not deleted.)

His comment is dated from a year ago February. They are reusing the article, so the old comments show up, too. (At…

This might not be the only company doing this kind of analysis. It’s likely that this company is hired by a few banks, so they see the loans that go through those. Other banks have their own fraud department, or hire other firms, so it does not represent the entire market.

Someone that used a true address but false income might try to make payments at first, to avoid a repo. Especially if they don’t know the dealer was doing the fraud to make them “qualify.”