A potential loss of their lives, not his. American law enforcement is 100% about protecting the officer’s own hide at any cost.

No, that didn’t happen. I am positive the car was built from scratch. It’s a pro mod chassis with C7 Corvette bodywork specifically made for doorslammer drag race cars.

This actually happens all the time. Or at least often enough that I have seen at least a half-dozen news items with cars that have driven up guy wires and gotten stuck. This one probably takes the record for altitude maintained, though.

I think that GM would really like to continue to have a RWD, V8, 4 door car to sell to police forces who haven’t jumped on the crossover/SUV bandwagon, and if you’re going to import/build something like the PPV, it’s not a big leap to sell a civilian version

Why would anyone steal the airbags?

You are correct, sir. Those are bridle catchers.

In my home town of San Diego, some genius is floating a plan to replace street parking in the most congested parts of town with more bike lanes to help ease congestion.

That’s the problem with standing water. It wants to be all flat on top, and deep underneath where you can’t see it. It would be much safer if water would pile up on the top so you could tell how deep it is just by looking.

Oral voice warning systems in cockpits have been around for many decades, augmenting and in some cases even replacing the warring lights and chimes of the early jet age.

Just keep whistling past that graveyard. This is about the third or fourth Gawker network article I’ve seen this week that celebrates how completely some pundit has dismantled Trump. And yet, for some reason the full weight of minor league former kinda-famous people’s scorn has failed to derail his candidacy! Could it…

I’d seen that before but forgotten about it. Yet another VTOL design that doesn’t require all sorts of Transformers nonsense that adds weight and complexity.

I think the tailsitter has a huge advantage here, too. Set the CG for level flight, and you’re done. Because in a hover or vertical flight, where the CG sits along the thrust axis literally doesn’t matter; as long as the center of pressure is below it, it will be inherently stable.

OK, so make it a tail-sitter with two large diameter ducted fans then, if you insist on throwing away efficiency via an additional mechanical-electric-mechanical transmission step and losing the advantage of 100% centerline thrust. And if your cargo isn’t secured well enough or can’t tolerate being tipped 90 degrees,…

This is a PROFOUNDLY stupid design for an unmanned VTOL aircraft. It’s complexity for the sake of complexity - not one tilting wing, but two, a turboshaft/electric drive system, and twenty four dinky little low efficiency (because they’re small, and there are so damn many of them) ducted fans.

And that’s why, at the gun stores I worked at in my youth, every firearm went into the walk-in safe in back every night.

Interview has been edited and condensed.

Opposing traffic at 0:23. Blind corners start 10 seconds later.

They’re both idiots, riding into the apex on blind left hand turns. Hard to watch.

I would, except I’m in the same line of work, and when I see a talented writer’s efforts marred by something so central to the job and so easy for him to correct by himself, I’m gonna say something.

Dude. Seriously. Proofread your stuff JUST ONCE before you post. At least proofread the title. I know you are in a publishing environment where literally nobody gives even the tiniest shit about quality, but you should care for yourself.