I never mentioned justifying the sentence. I was replying to someone who said the company owner should go to jail. There might be civil liability for the company (and probable is) but criminal liability seems unlikely.

Legally, they are not. Though i am sure there are/were civil suits. The court found the trucks equipment was not faulty due to maintenance, mismanagement, nor should have been out of service. The trucks brakes failed because the driver of the semi was not operating the vehicle correctly. He was using only the service…

Autonomous vehicles don’t ‘chose.’ They have a list of conditions. Since the autonomous vehicles are, in fact, dumb, they will stop whenever conditions do not fit parameters. Just as this driver stopped at a checkpoint when the brakes first stopped working, the autonomous vehicle would have too. and it would have sat…

Commute maybe, not pardon. He still willfully elected not to stop his truck when it started having brake issues. And in the moments before the accident, when he was doing 2x the speed limit for trucks, he did not take multiple safe-stop ramps for runaway trucks.

There is no indication of poorly maintained equipment. The brakes failed because of improper operation (using only the brakes to control speed on a downhill descent) and he decided not to use a truck runoff ramp that was just before the area of the crash, when he couldn’t keep his vehicle under double the speed limit.…

He tried to flee the scene of the accident, after ignoring his failing brakes at an inspection stop, and didn’t dive out into a runaway truck ramp further up the pass.

You assume the brake failure was due to negligent maintenance or faulty components, as opposed to a driver going too fast at the crest of a hill, and using his trucks service brakes instead of engine braking. That section of 70 smells like cooked brakes all day long.. because it cooks brakes. A fully loaded truck on a…

My Chrysler 300 SRT8 with factory brembos could light it’s brake pads on fire and craze/crack rotors after 2 or 3 laps at mid-ohio if i ran it to the limits with track tires. With replacement zeckhausen big-brake kit it could still eat a complete set of pads in 10 laps.

Furthest left it power take off. Top is front and rear, below that is front, next down is neutral (PTOs not engaged) and bottom position is rear.  The PTOs drive the accessories such as hydraulics, or other implements.

These are impossible to insure now. Only one company was doing it, National General, and they now ask four questions. They were bought out, so criteria tightened. Is the frame modified (did you put a flatbed on the back?) Is there a deck on the roof, is there a solid fuel stove, and was the body cut to lift the roof…

They are built the same. The only difference would be a wet exhaust manifold, ignition protected alternator, starter, and carb (or EFI Tune.) Elsewise, same block, same heads, same crank, same rods, and factory available pistons/cam (they are of course adjusted for compression and profile depending on target…

That both of these guys will be put behind bars and all the guns they sold recovered by our incredibly competent and skilled ATF and their associated agencies, in a flawless operation that is an example of inter-agency co-operation.

Honest truth. The one who isn’t a felon will get the guns taken and a big fat nothingburger. Probation is a MAYBE, if even that. I’ve seen that exact charge, almost every time before court, end up as a plea deal to simply not engage in selling firearms anymore. I deal in firearms as a licensee and if these two were at…

Those corp rigs have video cards that are not ideal for gaming, so i wouldn’t pay extra for one due to it’s video card. But if you get one with a bottom spec graphics adapter, you can swap it out for a better one. As long as it has the upgraded power supply.

These vans were built on Econoline derived chassis’ to start with, or a Chevrolet bespoke chassis, depending on what the customer wanted.  Transits have no chassis whatsoever, so it wouldnt have been an option.

Most modern aircraft lack the capacity to dump fuel. The Dash 8 has a ‘dump valve’ but it is only used to vent the fuel tanks during refueling, and that feeds from an overflow tank, not the fuel tank.

Game Ratings are not run by the US government, but by trade organizations.  The ESRB is owned by the game companies.  Congress cannot mandate that the ESRB change it’s rating system.

It is the same system. Just being pushed into service with a different gear ratio on a many many many tons heavier vehicle. Hence the short lifespan...

Eh... the transaxle in those is the issue. While the motor was a genuine boat anchor (they had... severe oiling issues at middle or higher RPMs and could starve themselves in stupid ways...) the transaxle just cannot be built to handle any more torque. Sure, some parts can be upgraded, such as bands from a 4l80e, and…

Super beetles have torsion beam based semi-trailing arm rear suspension. Modern 911's have dual wishbone rear suspension. They have for two and a half decades now. There is a very big difference. The FRONT suspension on a superbeetle is, indeed, an early example of a modern McPherson strut design, which Porsche still…