Those heroes would roll your ass and leave you bleeding in a deserted parking lot, the blood black on the gravel under the orange sodium lights, chips of quartz shining through like stars in the night sky as your eyes struggle to focus and you pull yourself to your feet to make the walk of shame to beg someone to use…

All these programs with actual AVs are done in conjunction with the municipality or other local government. So the people who live there have a say by electing the government that allowed it and can remove them at the next election if they have a problem with it. You may be thinking of Tesla’s FSD but that’s not an AV…

showing that tensions between regular people and autonomous vehicles are rising

The demand is coming from any business or individual that doesn’t want to hire a ‘creative’ for things like thumbnails and ads. They just don’t talk about it for fear of being brigaded by said ‘creatives’ who think they’re entitled to that money, their protestations about the sanctity of human art notwithstanding. The…

It's pretty difficult to ignite without grinding it to a powder. Years ago I tried with one of those magnesium fire starters that are a block of metal that you're supposed to shave off pieces from. Heating it with a blowtorch the surface would react but it wouldn't keep burning by itself without the torch or being…

Maybe this is a good price for whatever type of person actually wants it but I can’t in good conscience hit NP on almost $8k for a POS V6 auto Fox body just because it has low mileage. These things were made for teens and twentysomethings to cheaply modify and then wreck. Surviving in this shape is a tragedy because…

Nice, I assumed they'd weasel out of it by claiming that 'pull' is not synonymous with 'move' because you can pull on something and not move it but using infinities to try to prove their claims is more elegant.

I can pull ‘near infinite mass’ too, it’s just that the mass isn’t going anywhere. I suspect that’s what their lawyers would say if someone claimed false advertising.

Recently my wife hit an already killed deer that was laying in the road as she came around a winding curve and it broke off one side of her plastic bumper. When she told me about it she mentioned that my work truck would have gone over it without an issue so we decided that her next vehicle will have higher clearance.…

The only way I can think of for the government to lower insurance rates would be to provide insurance as a government service. Basically a non-profit government owned insurance company that could undercut prices in the market. I think there’s an argument that if the government requires insurance (or thinks that people…

Here’s how Tesla describes the Cybertruck on their website:

Apparently Walz is fond of it too. Looks like Pepsico will be the real winner here.

I was surprised that one made waves. Seemed like a perfectly normal answer for a Mormon. I wouldn't have been fazed if he had said Spam or baloney.

Yeah but all the current company and the old one share is a name.

There was a similar place next door to a business I do some work for. Previously the space was a mechanic shop. They ended up closing before I had any need for them. Now it’s a AAA dispatch center. They just didn’t get a lot of business. It’s got to be a relatively small customer pool, people who want to do their own…

Because it’s an exact equivalent of the “We’re a Republic, not a Democracy” nonsense. Quibbling over technicalities in an effort to push an agenda. They’re an authoritarian state that controls their economy to levels and in ways that countries with anything like a free market could never tolerate.

Ok, that makes sense, thanks. How does one tell whether the limit is the vehicle or your own driving skills? I rarely drive fast or at all recklessly but the few times I’ve come to grief doing so I’d like to say it was the car but I can’t know if my attention lapsed momentarily or if faster reflexes or a better…

It’s a 1988.5 Countach 5000QV

I don't get this "tenths" measuring system. How about multiples of the posted speed limit instead?

Sure thing, Sino-apologist.