US automakers have spent decades setting the stage for cheap imports by cutting back further and further on entry-level models. They could do a lot to undercut the threat of Chinese imports by putting out some cheap cars themselves. 

Hopefully there is an email trail for the small claims case

I think there is a missing comma in there - I think it means, passengers on the plane reported seeing parts of the wing section ripping off while other (parts of the wing) were visibly flapping.

Major oof. United could be in big trouble if it turns out they’ve been ignoring an airworthiness directive from that long ago.

Read this on Flyertalk:

The 757-200 has not been manufactured since 2004, so this is exceptionally unlikely to be any fault of Boeing’s. Heck, the entire 757 line is obsolete. (But remains popular in aftermarket sales anyway, because they’re rather peppy. This makes them inefficient, but they’re great for hot, dry climates and for the…

nice click bait headline, the wing didn’t disintegrate, a part of the slat did. they were never in any serious danger.

That United aircraft was N57111, a 757-224 first flown December 5, 1994. It’s almost 30 years old. It probably has 20,000 or more flights on it already. Probably has 15 C checks and 3-5 D checks on it already. It’s probably been disassembled and reassembled multiple times by the airline. That part may not be original,…

Nearly every discussion in the last 6 months on here has been about how Toyota leadership was so smart to stick to hybrids and not make a BEV totally ignoring the hundreds of millions spent on hydrogen instead.

Does it need to be pointed out that there are stainless-steel-bodied Deloreans built in 1981 that still haven’t “attracted rusting surface contaminants?”

Capturing only the hydrogen is easy. The Hydrogen goes to the cathode and the Oxygen to the anode. You just separate them in the water and have a vessel above the cathode to capture the hydrogen. You can do it as an Middle School science project.

Because they made a big bet on hydrogen being the future of personal vehicles but did next to nothing to actually get the infrastructure off the ground. This is the problem when an org gets too big, execs get excited about developing something new but when the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, they…

Anyone who has ever dabbled in DIY car detailing would know that metal fallout is a common issue and affects all cars although it is not as apparent on painted/clear coated vehicles. Metal fallout is small particles of metal from lots of sources (industrial plants, brake dust, trains, etc.) that are carried through…

They pissed off someone at corporate so they got an albatross hung around their neck.

It’s Tuesday, February 19, 2024

“It was irony written on a sledgehammer, repeatedly swung into the screen. And it was spectacular. Hilarious, biting, and wonderfully hammy, it took the eccentricities of RoboCop and cranked it up to 11.”

Like any “town” with a few thousand people statistics would say that they will have several deaths over that long of a time period, especially as can assume a majority are older and retired. Now if they have several dozen (unless have an infectious disease breakout then all bets are off) that’d be notable.

I don’t want to go back to that either, but GED-hopefuls giggling at my digitally-rendered naked body is not going to prevent it.

Most of the security is theatre. Someone who’s determined to get on board for a nefarious reason will more than likely manage to do it with some planning. Otherwise, it’s remarkable where you can go if you just look confident enough, as though you belong there. I know that directly from some of my previous work…

The problem is you can’t really question whether it is a “legit” service animal or not. They do not have to provide any proof and as a business you have very little in ways of what you can ask about the animal and the services it provides. Plus denying the animal may put in violation of the ADA. Now the only leg they…