The reason the Prius is objectively bad is in your article - the people who drive them do so with indifference, in the left lane, doing six miles per hour under the posted speed limit. Your computing indifference doesn’t prevent me from playing Call of Duty on my computer. That Prius in the left lane or plodding along…

So would a headline stating “Rossi and Marquez publicly hug it out” be more or less believable?

Around 2001 or so, I was visiting a friend in Bethesda, MD. He had several motorcycles at the time, so we did a day trip on a couple of them out to Route 211 past Luray in Western Virginia - there are some pretty awesome stretches of road out that way. Basically, we just rode back and forth over this mountain that was…

I didn’t say that extra speed means extra range, at least from a physical perspective. What I’m talking about is real world flying. The HJ and the M2 may have the same range on paper, but that range is predicated on the aircraft flying at their optimal (i.e., highest or nearly highest) cruise altitude. If one of the…

I’m not disagreeing with you - just what I heard. 20-30 knots difference may not seem like much, but if it’s enough that a commercial aircraft has to slow down to let you in or let you through, ATC isn’t going to authorize it.

My understanding is that the 420 knot cruise speed is quite a bit faster than the VLJs from Cessna and Embraer. At first, my thought on this was “so what?” However, that extra speed provides extra range in a not-so-obvious way. Simply put, these jets all operate most efficiently at high altitude - the range will be…

About two years ago, I was driving to work in Greensboro, NC on the back end of a snow storm that came through the night before. There weren’t many cars on the road because there were several inches of snow on the roads. I came to stop at a three-way intersection as the light was turning red. After the crossing…

Never never never get complacent. Ever.

The video includes footage of an F-35 releasing weaponry. I know it’s stock footage to show the weapon, but why not actually put the F-35 in the Syria theater against ISIS? I haven’t heard of any serious ground-to-air threats, so the untested platform would be relatively safe. It seems like it would be a good chance…

I’ve had the same experience in NC. Coming from the Northeast, I’m used to aggressive driving, but at least people are paying attention. I’m more concerned for safety here in NC where no one is paying attention to their driving at all. Everyone is on their phone, obviously texting while driving, or just spaced out in…

Our second year living in Boston, my wife and I traveled to my parents’ house in Pittsburgh, PA for Thanksgiving. My wife had to put in a half day at work on Wednesday, so the plan was for me to pick her up at noon and leave straight away. Normally, the drive from her office to I-84 toward CT is about twenty five…

Is there any fine print with these along the lines of “acceptance of these bribes gift cards waives your right to pursue additional claims against VW.”?

The shot about 30 seconds into the video looks like a majority of the wreckage landed in one place and it sure looks like the wings were largely intact upon impact. Speculation on my part, but that seems to indicate that the aircraft impacted the ground with relatively low speed along the ground and that the aircraft…

You could be right, but you could be wrong. No one else has ever been caught. It’s like justifying steroid use in sports by your favorite athlete by saying that everyone else is probably using them too...

Maybe something is getting taken out of context, but Trump’s statement about the cost is naive at best. The development cost of all military aircraft (and most commercial aircraft too) is measured in the billions of dollars. The F-35 is definitely on the expensive end of development costs, but considering there are…

I love the ideas of Lorenzo starting at the back with Rossi or of Yamaha sabotaging his bike for qualifying to accomplish the same. Not gonna happen. Since the championship is Rossi or Lorenzo, what if most of the other racers had a gentleman’s agreement to basically give Rossi a clear shot to the front of the pack at…

I would buy the shit out of a version of this that takes after the VW Westfalia camper vans from the 1980’s. Small, efficient, with a crap ton of interior space for a weekend of camping.

Yes. The crash was intentional, but intentional my Marquez. Very likely, Marquez was pushing the limits of traction already. Rossi is clearly an elite rider, so we can assume that he was taking the turn at close to the limits of traction. Marquez was going a little faster (he was creeping up on Rossi right before the…

Since motorcycles are no longer “two wheels bad,” I nominate pre-fuel-injection sport bikes. The cooling systems on the bike are barely adequate, so in stop-and-go traffic, the bike is running really hot. Also, in such hot conditions and stop-and-go usage of the clutch, the clutch can get kinda grabby. Finally, the…

Could Dodge redesign the Viper to take some of the cost out of it? There is very little reason for it to cost almost double the price of a C7. For example, the design, engineering, and manufacturing for the V-10 engine has to be really expensive considering the engine is used for just this one car. I question the…