I hereby announce my candidacy for Congress, on the platform that my signature legislation will be the “Ban Stupid Puns In Bill Names Act” (BSPIBNA), which will prevent Congresspeople from naming their proposed laws in ways where the acronym or initialism forms a word. 

Your friends ain’t lying to you. All of these are good practices to follow when driving on wet roads.

This incorrectly assume things like braking and tire technology remain constant. Which they don’t.

Well to be fair if everyone else is going 79 it’s safer for you to speed 9 mph over than it is for you to be going 70.

55 MPH is more than a “minor inconvenience”. Have you ever driven (or been a passenger) crossing Kansas at 55 MPH? Christ it felt like I could get out and walk faster than that.

Are you asking if Scottie (a habitual liar from rural Kentucky) owned a one-off special Syclone made by Gale Banks for a land speed record attempt? Please. Besides, even if he did acquire it back in the late-90s there isn’t a road long, straight, or level enough in this county to hit that speed in probably any car.

When I first joined, Jalopnik had a Chrome badge that displayed elegance, class, and a bright future. Soon after it changed to a more modern, race and perhaps safety inspired orange font, those were the best and boldest years. Attention grabbing, pushing the envelope of journalism and an, perhaps like a log in a fire…

Doesn’t look close to anything like 45 degrees to me. I’ve grown up sailing and raced on all different kinds/sizes of sailboats. I’m sure it was terrifying, but you aren’t just walking around on a boat that’s heeled over at 45 degrees. 

Musk is an idiot all too frequently, but in this, he’s not wrong. Sending a satellite to Mars places considerable limits on the transmission power of the satellites in orbit (dishes are limited in size, transmission hardware needs to be low-mass, etc.) Satellites can’t share frequencies, and a dozen other restrictions…

petabyte(bit)/second hasn’t anything to do with the transmission propagation rate, it has to do with the transmission bandwidth. Transmission delay has to do with the transmission propagation rate; as you noted, latency.

I think that it is ok for neighborhoods/ cities to want a peaceful environment. I don’t think that “unmodified” vehicles should be exempt from sound enforcement you should be able to short shift/keep the vehicle in a higher gear to keep the RPMs down. There is a difference between driving a loud car and being…

Speed has never killed anybody. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you.

On one hand this a cop flexing their ego. On the other hand don’t speed in a convoy it’s shooting fish in a barrel. Go to a track you clearly have the money.

I think”DRL” actually stands for “Dark Rear Lights”. I have no clue why some cars have a switch setting on the dash to turn off the tail lights. 

What has made it worse is that dashboard lights are on continuously, day and night. Back in the day when I was driving at dusk, looked down, and discovered I could no longer see my speedometer, I would say “Oh Shit”, and turn on my headlights.

Honestly, I think Automatic Headlights have made the situation worse, not better. I’ve actually argued with people driving around with no tail lights on at night who honestly believe their headlights were set to Automatic.

Your vehicle may have automatic headlights, but you still have to make sure they are set to…

Goes triple if you are in tourist spots. I get that our landscapes are nice and pretty, but if you want to enjoy it then you need to pull over and do it from a lay-by.

If the traffic is stacking up behind you, you are going too slow. Either pull over or speed up until it spaces out again.

I got a +1 for ya. Intentionally double parking to save spots for someone.

I cannot believe “on a freeway move right unless you are passing slower traffic” isn’t listed.