Big pipes... everywhere.

Of course, nuclear plants emit less radiation than coal plants (most coal naturally has some uranium in it, and it’s essentially unregulated).

Green lawns waste a lot of water, but modern swimming pools don’t, surprisingly enough. If they’re covered when not in use, their water retention is something like 99.9% per month. Was shocked to learn that when I started researching Phoenix’s water supply a few years ago.

It became a sea again because of that mistake. It was an ancient seabed already.

From my dad: "The sign says yield, not surrender!"

A tongue-in-cheek one: “the right of way isn’t given; it’s taken,” and its Ayn Rand corollary, "it's not who will let me, but who will stop me."

Early on in Scott Dixon’s career, they described his application of throttle as, “as if there’s a raw egg between his foot and the pedal.” I always think of that when I want to drive smoothly.

Pro tip: Narrow your browser window until everything shows up on one page.

How about all the Spider-Man movies that were just an excuse to keep the movie rights?

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If engineers ruled the world, then every intersection would be a 4-level stack. Efficiency isn’t the only factor, or else we’d all be on buses anyway.

I’m with you. Pacing the traffic should actually help the zipper merge, since it equalizes the speeds between the two lanes.

Bingo! Our driver’s education standards in this country are ridiculously poor. The zipper merge is relatively harmless - the one that really bothers me is that most of us have never been taught the modern rules of sharing the road with cyclists, scooters, and the other flotsam which have become so common over the past…

I like this - merging is definitely a collaborative activity. But most of that is about communicating your intentions clearly rather than speeding up or slowing down.

I don’t think there’s a good hard-and-fast rule for your circumstance. I’d be inclined to stay right (I’m always inclined to stay right except to pass), then merge left into the opposite lane during the weave. But I think it really just depends on the stream of traffic coming onto the collector-distributor road from…

One of only two or three things from racing which I think is directly applicable to normal driving is that it’s always easier to peel off speed than to gain it. If people would just learn that, maybe they’d figure out to get up to highway speed before reaching the merge point.

Yes, using the exit lane to pass people is its own special kind of hell. It’s why I can’t stand auxiliary lanes even though they’re technically more efficient, because you can never tell if somebody is screaming down the auxiliary lane to exit, or just to be a jackass and pass people. FWIW, it’s almost always illegal…

Cutting in front of a hundred people, causing them to jam on the brakes at the last moment, is being the asshole. Just because something is more efficient doesn’t always make it right...

Whatever you do, finish it off with silicone spray. Cuts the effort to open the door in half, at least. Just warn everyone who uses the door regularly, or they will slide it right off its tracks because it’ll slide so easily!

It’s not a dumb question - I think we’ve all asked it at least once!