You know what? When you count on ABS and just mash the pedal, that’s exactly what happens. When you mash the brakes without ABS, the same thing happens. But when you threshold brake and don’t flat spot your tires by locking them up, you tend to stop in a straight line.

Ahh touché. In hindsight 700 tons actual weight really doesn’t make much sense, lol.

It literally says how much it weighs in the article title...?

I genuinely do not understand all the hate of Self-Checkout from the customer side. Then again, I’ve only ever been at stores where you still had the option of using a regular line. I find self-checkout to me WAY faster and more convenient for me most of the time. I rarely am running into a store for more than a…

You sound like one of those people who knows just enough about “basic physics” to feel smart, but not enough about aerospace/rocketry to really be in any position at all to criticize the engineering behind a failed rocket launch.

It’s called the Environmental Protection Agency. My point is that, being it has limited resources, the EPA’s efforts would be much better spent tackling things that are far more destructive to the environment than chasing after individual enthusiasts. This Cummins thing is an excellent example of doing just that. We…

Yes. Handful. Are you suggesting the majority of personal vehicles on the road are 1) owned by enthusiasts, and 2) modified with emissions-defeating tech?

To be clear, fuck people rolling coal, and all that egregious nonsense.

Honestly, in the grand scheme of things that actually affects the environment, the relative handful of enthusiasts modifying their weekend cars isn't really contributing anything at all.

Look... it’s dumb and silly and completely pointless for 99.99% of people and use cases... but can we just enjoy that this is something cars can just... do... now? I mean, a car that can do 250 MPH is equally as useless as this if we’re being honest, but it’s still cool that the car CAN do it.

I agree with your Boeing comment, but your SpaceX comment is wildly off-base.

Thanks! :D

Yeah, no. It is made abundantly clear during the booking process that you should use the same legal name that is on your passport. Abundantly clear. If you're just lazily filling in information for an international flight with the same care as filling out information for your supermarket rewards membership, I can't…

When I was a kid I had a poster of a Caterham on my bedroom wall. A few months ago I finally bought one, so now it would just be the photo I took of MY Caterham!

At least your mistake wasn't out of pure stupidity. I'm glad they fixed yours without charging you up the wazoo.

I have ZERO sympathy for any grown adult that thinks using anything other than your actual name to book a flight is a good idea. This is a case of an idiot paying the price for being an idiot, which is something that doesn’t happen enough these days. I suppose they paid a pretty steep price for their idiocy, but I…

“Police maintain that they were doing their job despite the fact no one should be condemned to death for a traffic violation.”

I actually am such a pessimist that I actively went looking for footage from inside the plane just so I could make an angry comment about all of the idiots trying to grab their luggage. Turns out I forgot that it’s just us Americans that are so stupid/self-centered/materialistic.

Every once-in-a-while scientists discover the answer to something I would have assumed we’d known the answer two many decades ago. This is one of those times.

I feel like you’ve completely missed the point. If they do nothing, the whole system falls apart. Something HAS to be done. This is one potential solution, or at least part of it. Nobody is saying we don’t need any of the stuff they grow. What we’re saying is that the current state is literally unsustainable long-term.

To be fair, this sounds more like some wacky CANBUS issue. Vehicles these days run EVERYTHING over their internal network. I remember reading about an F-150 that had a corroded CANBUS connector in the tail light housing and it caused a MYRIAD of problems very similar to what I’m reading here. Everything from…