I need to report my mileage whenever I buy a car, and again whenever I renew my license plate sticker (every 2 years). It’s entirely self reported, just a text box on the renewal form. If someone under reports their mileage while they owned a car then they’ll get caught when the new buyer reports mileage much higher…

I forget the exact technical document where it’s described, but for US vehicles I believe the rear lighting requirement is a minimum of 5 cm^2 of illuminated surface for separate brake and turn signal lamps, or 8 cm^2 for a combination brake/signal lamp. I believe the reason you see a lot of combo lamps on North…

I wonder if colonies will need to be resupplied or if they’ll just... exist once they’re built. I suspect we’ll need to deliver raw materials if we want to build an extraterrestrial rocket assembly building and launch pad, but will colonies require access to food and water as well?

Even without AB5, telling a contractor how to complete their task is a pretty good indication that they are an employee, not a contractor. If Uber did not have these restrictions in place, contractors could complete rides with 2 door cars, or full sized vans, or vehicles more than 10 or 15 years old, or vehicles with…

If the contractor can complete the build in the timeline specified with a handsaw and nails, what reason does anybody have to say he should act otherwise? Contractors should be free to complete the task at their own discretion. Once you start managing that they’re supposed to complete the task in a certain way,…

How would you define “controls” then? What would Uber have to do before you felt they “controlled” how a job was performed?

If they’re doing that, then they should face the consequences and hire on those people as employees. However if they tell the delivery people “Here are the addresses that receive a paper. Make sure they have one by 8am. Go nuts,” then, even thought there may be one optimal route to take, I’d say they aren’t receiving…

You can control your work environment completely, it’s your own car.*

Under AB5 as its currently written, workers are employees if unless they are “free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in…

I think the only way to prevent this accident is to change the corner. I don’t want to see a massive change, just perhaps shaving down the crest of the hill a bit to give drivers better visibility, or, since the runoff has nowhere to go, perhaps banking it slightly so that gravity could scrub a little more momentum…

Ignore what their PR firms say and look at what they do.

If you check up thread, you’ll find some links to Times Beach. Waste dioxins (of which polychlorinated biphenyl is probably the most well known) were applied in barns and horse arenas because of its seemingly magical ability to suppress dust, more so than other oils or dust suppression treatments.

Man, I wish the lot near my work was set up like that.

That’s good to know.  Any time I hear about a miracle dust suppression treatment from the ‘50s, my mind goes to PCBs.

who claimed that he’d covered the dirt track in a chemically-treated compound to keep the dust down

Ok, so the VAG acts exactly like a battery car. There’s technically juice there, but you can’t access it because to do so would damage the car. If the gauge reads 0, what does it matter whether there’s anything there or not? No matter how many times you fill and empty the tank, there’s always going to be a little bit…

With a gas car you still don’t want to run the tank to empty. If you keep running a car to the point where it sputters and runs out of fuel you generally have to replace the pump due to a combination of sediment fouling and a lack of cooling killing the pump. Batteries are smart enough to go ‘Hey, I’m cutting you off…

They’re just a smidgen bigger than a Honda Fit, though I personally feel they have more interior space than the Fit because the hood section is shorter.

Ok, I think I’ve boiled down the problem here: You are an uninformed consumer.

What the hell is a politically correct automobile company? Are there politically incorrect automobile companies? Does taking a stance on emissions confer political correctness, or is there just a casual link between political correct businesses and the ability to better engineer emission control systems?