And once they’re regulated into just another taxi company then they have to offer the same kickbacks and bribes that taxi companies offer to stay in local government’s graces.

Holy crap, this was literally the first thing I thought of, and at my writing, 15 people have already starred it before I even got here.

It’s even worse on a phone, over the last few weeks their sites have become essentially unreadable on iOS. Take forever to load, reload, mile-long ads crash Safari, and good luck ever getting to the comments. Meanwhile, all the processing heats up my phone until it can grill meat.

Agree partially that movies NEED to be shorter, these 2 1/2 hour comic book movies are ridiculously too long. 90 minutes is for a comedy, 2 hours for most movies, 2+ hours for prestige Oscar dramas / sweeping historical epics.

Pretty sure Christmas is originally an Eastern Earth holiday.

With the Prequel Trilogy, Revenge of the Sith had the biggest opening weekend of the trilogy, by far, grossing $108 million on its opening weekend versus $64 million for The Phantom Menace and $80 million for Attack of the Clones.

HAH!

Thank you, came in here to note that I have no idea what Matt is talking about here. Maybe he *can’t* do it on his project car, but obviously you can absolutely do it on a bike.

As long as we’re here, does anyone know the name of the, ummm, “Motorsport” that involves a crappy old car driven fast in circles until it ducks into the middle of the circle to hit a ramp, forcing it to flip over and over, until the car that flips the most times wins the, ummm, “competition”?

Love the entire series, but agree, “Spider” is special.  It makes engineering dorks inspiring. 

“We have a lot of needs right now,” Prendergast lamented, “And Hyperloop is sucking a lot of the oxygen out of the room.”

I love this thread.

I really do like that blue, the Cayman looks really sharp in it.

I didn’t have a car in high school, so I had to bum rides off of all my friends. My buddy Mike had one of these in white, and he was inseparable from his long-haired friend Rob. We called their car the Millennium Falcon. Alas, it was Empire Strikes Back-era Falcon: always broken, always wheezing, coolant system was so…

That’s... that’s a damn good idea. 

Doing the Lord’s work, carry on.

... and he’s been fired.  What punishment has Jussie suffered again?

Add blind spot monitoring.  I’ll do a head check until the day I die, but the situational awareness of knowing I *can’t even bother* to change lanes right then is always welcome. 

A daily driver, alas, needs more room than that frunk affords you, even as a super car.

Not cars, but motorcycles: the story of the Royal Army’s motorcycle team that escaped Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II.