“Couldn’t they do a system where, if you’re lapsed and get in a wreck, it deploys but you get billed for the amount of time since your last payment? That’s not ideal either, but you’d think any plan where you’re not putting on equipment that you don’t realize won’t do anything to help save you is a better option.”

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Call me a millennial, but you have to connect it to a app for it to function... I’m not sure how you could fucking miss it if the app says subscription expired (like every other subscription app) after you connect to it.

It’s a non-mandatory life saving device and you can go ahead and just pay $800, which is what all the other options on the market cost. 

You should see the case socialism sometimes makes for capitalism. 

In this case you’re just paying for a product and breaking it up over time. It’s also an expensive, non mandatory item that didn’t even exist a few years ago.

Basically cell phone service. That $1000 phone/airbag/car-home insurance payment broken up into easy monthly payments. Winter weather sucks, you don’t have to pay since you’re not riding. Based on other airbag safety device costs; seems reasonable for someone who rides a lot in high traffic situations. An occasional…

Buy a different $700 one time fee vest.

Without numbers it is incredibly easy to drive your own narrative here, Jason. You need to compare the low cost of the Ai-1, along with the subscription service, to other air vests on the market which start at $700 and go up to $1150. The math is quite simple: after 2.5 years of ownership you will reach the cost of a…

I read about this a few weeks ago. I believe the thinking is that these add-on airbag vests are really expensive (at least today) and by halving the price with a monthly subscription makes the purchase more appealing to more riders, thereby increasing safety to more riders—and that’s a good thing.

Airbag systems, pioneered in MotoGP racing, actually do provide enhanced rider protection beyond what an armored jacket does, particularly for collar bones and shoulders (depending on the design).

An honest ad on facebook’s property? Zuck doesn’t like that

We can learn all this stuff about you and use it to target you with ads but telling you those details? Now that’s where we draw the line.

For that price you might as well just get the hologram version. 

I love every bit of this.

I’m not sure how you’d film the battles in The Forever War. Everyone just straps in and waits for the computers fight it out, because everything is happening too fast for meat brains to follow.

The BSG scene with Lee observing the battle floating in space is conceptually similar to a scene from the Movie Midway (1976) where Ensign George Gay is shot down and we see the battle from his view the as Japanese carriers are attacked. Its based on a true event. Gay floated for 30 hours watching them burn before he…

That was a great scene but the buzz-droids kinda take you away from the big space battle action for too long IMO.

When the Rebel Fleet dropped out of hyperspace over Scarif I was overjoyed, and marvelled at how much like ANH it felt.

BSG and B5 should both get special mention for not having their spaceships maneuver like airplanes.

Hopefully Paul Rudd pops in for one last Mac and Me clip