I agree. I live in Newfoundland, Canada, and I have a snowmobile and put around 1000 miles per year on it. I would rarely worry about that 95 mile range for the trail riding I do, and half the advertised horsepower would be plenty.

As an EV proponent, I’m still fine with snowmobiles staying gas powered. But this smog-belching 2-stroke shit needs to go, and take its buzzy-ass sounds and soot-covered trails with it. 

I can see this for recreational snowmobiles where you go out, blast around, come back, load it on your truck and come home again.

Japan is losing 300,000 people per year, and the regions are particularly hard hit. The countryside is becoming empty, so services that make use of defunct railways are a good solution.

All the cons of owning a boat without any of the pros. You can’t even “just chill” on this thing. There’s no room to lay down or just put your feet up, nor is there a place to put some chairs, an umbrella, and an ice chest for a few hours on a secluded lake shore.

You know that google doesn’t know what car you have right? Someone with a big truck with chains gets the same maps that someone in an else gets. People live out in that area. Should they not be allowed to have google work with those roads? I have 2 cars, one can get up to my parent’s place in the winter and the other…

IIRC they have many old lines that are out of service, and I assume this is what its for. Pick people up in the current town center, hop on abandoned line, zip to next town, hop off, drive to its current town center. 

Exactly! The Google PM is full of bullshit (I am also a software PM). Google already knows the difference between I-80 and a Fire road. They could easily flag that in the UI. Some drivers will still ignore it, but it can be called out as a warning.

Exactly. Blaming it a dead end or a non turn on Google Maps is one thing but totally ignoring 4 feet of snow on an unplowed mountain road because GPS told you is idiocy. Most people drive SUVs now and think they are invincible because of it.

umm, no.

A male passenger told her “it was an inappropriate comment and that she ‘isn’t Black … this isn’t Alabama and this isn’t a bus.’” He then said, “Sit down, Karen.”

The primary advantage is that bad batteries of any age are identified and removed from the pool. It doesn’t matter if your car is brand new if the battery is a dud.

Why do I have the feeling that when you add up the clicks he got from the curious like you and I, he won’t need insurance money?

Maybe next door to David Tracy.

Last night, the coyotes were howling somewhere in the woods around me. Second best neighbors I’ve ever had. Best was a skunk I named Lockheed who lived somewhere behind a more urban apartment I lived in. It would come out around sunset and I’d toss it some food and it would hang out while I talked to it for a few…

Um, that sounds similar to where I grew up (it was crack instead of meth). Unless you’re doing some kind of “Gorillas in the Mist”-style observational journalism project, I hope you’re able to distance yourself from that area.

Take off the orange-tinted glasses. They’re fucking with your brain.

Wow. You could make a reality show out of this adventure! Really sorry for the hassles.

This is The Lord Our God warning you about touch screens and computer interfaces in mission critical appliances.  If you don’t pay attention, it’s on you.

And still much worse than far easier ways, like just making them accessible from the engine bay or making the headlight cover removable without removing a painted body panel. Also, it’s sounds like the implementation on your Golf wasn’t too bad. I’m sure you’d be shocked to know GM’s implementation on the Malibu was a…