AS an airline pilot I can tell you that descending 28,000 in ten minutes is 2800FPM which is not a plunge at all. It’s actually a litle slower than I would expect for a depressurization which at that rate wasn’t explosive and probably a fault of the air con packs which pressurize the plane meaning it would slowly lose…

They usually take out an insurance policy. The odds of a hole in one are huge, this guy did not pay for policy so he is on hook. Stupid. He will lose in court.

There’s a whole insurance industry for hole-in-one type contests. It’s rare enough that it would happen on that specific hole in that specific tournament that it’s insurable for much less than the cost of the car.

And I’d bet that a hole-in-one on a par 3 does not strongly correlate to time or ability to playing golf (with maybe exceptions for the very top professionals) ....Nearly anyone with the slightest skill can typically reach the green of a par 3, and then how it sticks, rolls, or bounces is pretty much dumb luck. I know…

Starred for “jive ass.” 

It’s probably the insurance companies not the event holders that deny most of these claims. The smart organizations take out an insurance policy so instead of being a 1% chance of paying out 90K and a 99% chance of paying out $0, they just pay the insurance company $1K to assume the risk and insurance companies…

Last time one of these articles were posted, it was brought up that traditionally the sponsor (usually a car dealer) would take out some kind of insurance policy (which the presumably do for other sorts of promotions they aren’t expecting to win, which explains better how local mom & pop dealerships can be doing…

The club at which this took place is full of wealthy residents and members, to include many tour golfers. So I doubt that it was unaffordable. That club plays another club, Lake Nona, which has similar affluency and has been televised in the past, so the clubs aren’t hurting for money at all.

I can’t decide if the writer is a coward for not engaging the comments that have valid issues with article, or this is just a troll piece looking for clicks and comments. The dry title makes me think the former.

This is one of the most blatant examples of yellow journalism I have seen in the automotive field this year. Jalopnik and their shill authors lost nearly all credibility.

You're trying to tell a liberal realities. And this is a waste of time. At the end of the day, they're always right about everything and have all the answers because they know best. So they clearly know best for your country since they live there and have experienced it personally... Through tik tok.

This article is phrased so negatively... so there’s a country that’s already using an alternative fuel that’s more emissions-friendly than gasoline, why are you mad at them for not wanting to go all-in on EV’s? How much is Tesla paying y’all?

I like how you spend this entire article trying to blame the government, sugar lobby, and automakers for this, while burying the actual cause as a footnote at the very end

Whenever someone asks me if Tenet is too complicated, I tell them that it’s basically Thunderball, except with time travel instead of scuba diving.

Volvo V60 - one of the few cars that catches my eye when out and about. Refreshing in a sea of bland crossovers.

Crystal Skull is better than Temple of Doom.

Must every blockbuster be 2.5 hours now? The original is one of the best films in history and it came in under 2 hours.

Jesus Christ. What a bunch of backbiting little snitches. Snitching on par with 7th Heaven. No wonder Logan hated literally everyone in the family. Nobody could keep anything close to the vest. Let’s hatch a plan, feel good about it, then immediately pull a member of the opposition aside and boast about it. Give them…

Honestly, I think the new Accord is a better looking BMW than the BMW.