Yep, when I was younger I even had a Mazda in what I liked to call “Road Camo Grey”. It was the color of dirty asphalt. I suspect we’ll naturally start seeing more light-colored cars as EVs make bigger inroads though. I went with white when I bought my PHEV because I knew how hot my previous car got (dark blue with a…

I counted 33. At points there were only 2 sentences of article between advertisements. I realize the company needs to make money, but I’m not even going to attempt the rest of this article without an ad-blocker installed.

I still think the most egregious examples are the Toyota GT-One and Nissan R390.

Is it any surprise that a car built to win at Le Mans dominates at the American track most similar to La Sarthe? The GTs walked away at Daytona last year too but still won fewer races than the BMWs and ended up in 3rd place in the Manufacturer Championship behind Chevrolet and BMW.

I’m in my first winter with a PHEV and the instant torque delivery can be quite a challenge on slippery roads. I’ve spun my tires in situations where my old RWD would’ve powered through without an issue, even if I may have had to launch it in 2nd gear. That said, I doubt I’ll ever go back to a pure ICE vehicle just…

So incentivize riders to refuse good drivers, accept bad drivers, and give low ratings so that there are more cheap drivers available?

Endless combat with uninteresting mobs is just a recipe for boredom. At least most goblin encounters can be mopped up in about an hour.

I don’t think they’d need to add sensors to every tray. If there is only a single loading bay then the system would only need to check for overhangs on that one spot and refuse to close the gate if it was not correctly aligned. I still think that the entire system should be covered in sensors though in case vehicles…

My only issue with running Micras at CTMP is that it’s nearly a 2 minute lap for those guys and everybody stays pretty close together. Every 2 minutes you see a large group of cars going by but if there aren’t screens set up for that weekend’s main race you won’t see any action unless it happens right where you’re…

It was probably the cheapest solution that technically met the written requirements. Everyone gets upset when the government spends too much of their money so they probably had to go with the lowest bidder rather than their preferred solution.

This idea still seems to suffer from the problems that plague other proposals that remove private ownership of the vehicle along with adding a couple new issues, the biggest being how will empty pods be distributed?

If the warrant was for ‘Electronic documents related to...’, you can’t set your server room on fire and then claim that the backups you store off-site are out of the scope of the warrant. In my opinion, remotely locking down the hardware so that nobody, even the person that the hardware is assigned to, is able to…

Happened to a ship I was on during an Alaskan cruise. In Juneau the boat stayed at dock 30 minutes beyond its departure time but eventually had to leave. As we pulled away we saw two exasperated people running down the dock. They had gone on a non-cruise excursion and their bus had broken down.

Assigned dinner time/table

Carnival is the Walmart of cruise lines. Paying a little more for Princess or Celebrity will generally give you a better experience.

If it were a modern anime, the series would probably end just before the duel started and people would have to read the untranslated manga to find out who actually won the fight.

Yep, my C-Max Energi does the same. In my car I believe the heater uses the standard coolant heating core along with an electric element that heats the coolant, but when it’s quite cold the engine always fires up until the cabin’s up to temperature. Given the amount of energy that’s required to heat the coolant (I’ve…

I don’t use Amazon Prime. I don’t do much online shopping, and when I do I don’t need immediate delivery. I do want to watch Made In Abyss, but there was no way I was going to pay $150 to watch a single show (if it was even offered in Canada that is). For me to watch anime it would indeed have been a double paywall.

I’ve heard that the buffer on the expiration date is in case you run into problems while traveling. Once the passport expires it’s hard for anybody to travel internationally even if the trip is back to their home country, so what happens if your passport is set to expire the day after you return from your trip but you…

I was looking at buying a used PHEV when last shopping but ended up buying new instead. The reason? Dealers weren’t taking the EV incentives into account when pricing their used offerings.