For $5k you can probably get into an E46 BMW. Hydraulic clutch, clean and crisp shifts, and generally enough torque to get you moving even if you make a mistake and drop it to 500 RPM. It’s not an America muscle car, but it’s RWD at least and will give you a pretty good ride.

I wish that they just did away with lane markings at temporary closures and started the merge in the middle of the lanes. It would get rid of the ‘Your lane is closed and my lane is open’ mentality and instead force everyone to take a turn or else trade paint with the car beside them.

If you’re not actively passing anybody in the right lane, then you are the slowest vehicle on that stretch of road! Move over!

Usually spotted on the back of a truck going 10 under in the middle lane despite ample opportunities to move back into the right lane.

This is my only issue with the feature. It’s nearly impossible to assign fault programmatically so it likely just gives both drivers a demerit, meaning a troll can drag you down to his level, and once you’re in a lobby with crashers it would be hard to avoid contact and bring your SR back up. I suppose as long as the…

We don’t know the criteria Riot is using to determine eligibility, but perhaps the issue is entirely financial. Riot may only wants teams that can demonstrate they will continue to operate in the coming years but feels that IMT has over-leveraged itself to afford its Overwatch buy-in. If Riot wants stability, it would…

If you look at the pay raises most unions manage to negotiate, even after strikes, you’ll notice that most are just for basic COLA increases. COLA increases should be about 2% per year to keep up with inflation, but the most recent strike (at CAMI Ingersoll which builds the Chevrolet Traverse) only managed to secure 4%…

Assembly line jobs are generally monotonous, low skill jobs. There is very little room for advancement or skill gains, little variability or stimulation while on the job, injury risk from strain and repetitive motion, and in the automotive sphere a risk of catastrophic injury or death due to the large machines and…

Tried that for the first hundred or so, but eventually it just got shoved into a drawer and forgotten for a while (maybe about a year). Eventually I think we rented it from Blockbuster again just to get the code.

Please see Sweet Trav’s response. What makes you think you’d have any power to negotiate a better salary for an assembly line job whose main qualification is ‘show up’? Skills, education, and training aren’t important, just your ability to show up when requested and do your task in the allotted time so that you aren’t…

They could, but they don’t. Assembly line workers aren’t hired based on their skills or experience, but rather on their ability to perform a task within an allotted time. As such, the skills and education of prospective employees don’t really change how much a factory owner is willing to pay. Negotiating with an…

1st Gear: It’s a race to the bottom with regards to worker’s rights, and now business owners have started handing out shovels.

A Japanese dev literally came out and said they only used the Microsoft exclusivity because of the funds and support that Microsoft offered, and then used the assets that Microsoft helped to build to create a superior port for the PS3 with added content and extra features. If I were Microsoft, I’d stop funding…

747.

Sold at a loss according to Boeing’s cost estimates and Boeing’s price estimates.

We’ve reached a point where even cars are being built out of the cheapest pot metal available. How long until I can buy a $500 disposable Honda at Harbor Freight?

I haven’t played iRacing, but I get the impression it’s something you really need to be dedicated to. There isn’t a single player mode with AI drivers so you will only encounter traffic if you play online and the game ranks you based on how safe you drive and may restrict you to slow vehicles if you cause too many…

How many thousands of dollars of damage was done to his car over a minor racing incident? I’m not saying it’s the smartest thing he could do, but I understand where he’s coming from. What started as a minor collision that may have only required a new tire and banging some sheet metal flat ends with his entire front…

How long until Ferrari starts developing and selling an open-wheeled street car with new technology that migrates into their F1 efforts for free? I’m sure that if a budget cap is enacted the manufacturer teams will get around the cap with some fancy accounting while the privateer teams get left even further behind.

Now that I think of it, perhaps the bigger issue is infectious diseases. If somebody with TB is left on the train, you only need to quarantine one car’s worth of passengers, but if you pull them onto the platform you risk infecting everybody on the platform as well as any passengers on any trains that pass by. It…