Wow. So wrong. Where to start.

No, my attitude is that new, showcase technologies shouldn't be transparent shams that are massively inefficient behind the scenes.

Ugh. What a ridiculous charade this whole thing is. The best real-world efficiency you're going to get out of a diesel genset is something like 35%. Then you have the losses in the charging process, and losses again changing electric power to kinetic energy. It would be far more efficient to power the cars directly…

Irrespective of the car parked in the lane, the rider is routinely putting his head over the center line. That's living on borrowed time, because it shows he's willing to use up more than the available space. It will catch up with him eventually.

That makes perfect sense now! :-P

What the heck is a "reverse transit"? I wasn't aware that crossings had a 'forward' and 'reverse' direction... Wouldn't it just be a "transit," no matter what the origin and destination?

Non-sequitor: Is it weird that I immediately recognized KFI on the radio?

No, because then the parents would put the kids on the escalator going the wrong way because of how totally cute it would be.

Brave of you, throwing that stone from the porch of your no-proofreading, riddled-with-typos Jalopnik glass house.

It wasn't "unfortunate"

If your willing accomplice happens to get shot while you're robbing a bank with him, guess what... you're on the hook for murder. This is no different.

Dress for the evacuation, not for the flight.

This, exactly. Traffic or not, it's the driver's responsibility to not enter the area between the crossing arms until it's possible to clear the other side of the tracks.

Hmm. Starter at an illegal street race that kills two people? Still on the hook for murder, because you're a part of the felony act.

"Your particular car" ≠ "most cars"

Where I work, we produce all the installation videos you'll see for K&N, AEM, and now Spectre intake kits. Probably done 100 of them so far. Without exception, the K&N intakes make the horsepower they advertise when tested on our Dynojet, or better. Not enough data on the other two brands yet to be certain, but since…

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Or over the ocean, which they also used to do all the time.

I think Igor Sikorsky would dispute that...

The rotational loads are nothing like getting hit with golf-ball-sized chunks of ice, though.