The tests are meant to mimic real life scenarios. IIHS is actually pretty good at setting the bar high but attainable. OEMs (The Big 3, Japanese, German) like to use it as a marketing tool and it's easy to declare it a safety issue in engineering reviews to justify the cost and weight of designing for the tests. All…

Shame on you Hardibro, you should have plugged Bill Caswell some more.

Does it smell like this dog?

My point is that it's comparable to other vehicles of the era. Every time IIHS comes out with a new test, most cars fail miserably. If you want a safe car, buy something that's brand new and designed to pass all of the latest tests.

People like to bring this up every time the Astro Van comes up. The IIHS moderate overlap test was not even around when the Astro Van was designed. In fact, the the platform is almost 10 years older than the test. How are they supposed to pass a test they don't know about?

Spot on. That was awful.

Is that a Mercator map projection? I disapprove!

Ya got nothin', eh.

ABS is even required on heavy trucks and ESP is required for emergency vehicles. The OEMs see the writing on the wall and have an ESP system available on pretty much everything.

I know I can always count on $kay for a good pun.

I feel like I need to have a bollywood action movie night.

Are there many of these types of girls where you party?

That reminds me of a George Carlin joke: "Screw you, I'm getting IN the plane, we'll leave getting ON the plane to Evel Knievel."

"But why build one of them fancy-shmancy monorails (MONORAIL!), with their one rail, which has only worked at Disney and in Seattle and kinda-sorta-but-not-really in Las Vegas," you ask. "Surely a normal, wholesome, God-fearing railroad with two proper rails is as good for Nashville as it is for the rest of America?"

If you're a "boob guy" and you're talking about a really thin woman with huge bazongas, please stop referring to them as "sweet 36Ds." She's probably a 30 or 32 multiple-D of some kind, and if she's wearing a 36 band size with that shallow of a cup, that'd be really, really uncomfortable. /rant.

I've got one for that too.

Two fires last year in Washington State and Tennessee occurred after the Model S's undercarriage was struck by road debris, igniting the battery pack that lives in the floorpan of the vehicle. These fires sparked (pardon the pun) a NHTSA investigation into the car's safety, though fortunately no one was injured in…

Obligatory?

Good. It makes the global job market more competitive and maybe outsourcing will start to be less enticing.