You can’t manufacture a product with an inherent safety function to the extent that it requires constant vigilance on the part of the end user. Imagine, for instance, manufacturing and selling a toilet that, if you pay attention and fully depress the flush-handle, no problem, but if you only half-way press the handle,…

There’s not a separate, physical break between any gear with this shifter. It’s analogous to the scroll wheel on a mouse. You feel a “detent” for each shift, but you, without looking, would have to actually count each shift, and know, “I’m in drive, up 1 to neutral, up 1 to Reverse, up 1 to Park.” And that assumes…

I rented a place like that for $1400, bought my house in a gated community.

No cornfields, just beautiful views of Texas Hill Country, and I’m 10 minutes from an HEB- a chain of family/employee owned grocery stores with an excellent selection of fresh produce and meats- and 5 minutes from a SuperTarget. I avoid WalMart like the plague that it is.

While there is a finite amount of actual cash in the world, assets like this are purchased with the transfer of electronic funds, which aren’t limited. One person’s $325M in electronic funds doesn’t take away $325M in funds from other people. The mere fact he has the $325M to blow on a plane doesn’t mean that $325M is…

And in the dark...and, likely, felt comfortable with his own car...

Except there’s no physical, tactile indication to your hand that you’re in Park vs. Neutral vs. Reverse.

41 reported injuries and untold numbers of incidents where the driver managed to catch it before any harm, or even where the car rolled forward or backwards and hit something, but either did too little damage to be worth reporting, or the owner didn’t bother to report.

TECHNICALLY, we aren’t paying pennies on the dollar for these things, you’re just paying 10-15 times normal.

I pay $1,800/month for a 2800 sq. ft. house with a 2-car garage 30 minutes from downtown of the 7th largest city in America.

Recall notices went out a long time ago, but there wasn’t any fix available into fairly recently (like in last week). They’re going to re-flash the computer-controlled transmission to automatically place car in Park when door is opened.

Like if you’re opening the door to check something behind you, like a gate, thinking you’re in Park and the dings are for your lights being on while door is open...

Until re-flashed as part of the recall- available in last few days- the Jeeps, unlike most of the European cars with similar systems, had no automatic parking engagement. The Euros will automatically engage Park when you open the door.

The shifter, itself, has no tactile confirmation of what gear it’s in- it always returns to center, and only a light indicates what gear it’s actually in. For people used to being able to tell based upon the level snicking into a particular gate, it’s hard to get used to, AND, for people used to this variant, to the…

I’m personally partial to white with saddle brown interior...but I’d take every single Singer ever built.

Aanndd Fast 8 is now a strong contender for Best Picture.

Interesting...on that basis, alone, Mazdas with Wankels should be capable of an extra 20hp!

F1 power units are, with current technology, the ultimate expression of hybrid technology utilized primarily for more performance, with more efficiency as a side benefit. I would point out, though, that fuel in F1 isn’t particularly “exotic,” as it can only contain compounds found in commercial pump gas. It is,…

From a powertrain standpoint, most of it appears to be, essentially, off the shelf- except that turbine. If it’s something like a helicopter turbine, then they’re available and RELATIVELY cheap, but it does hinder maintenance/repairability. Other than fuel savings, the one thing truckers are looking for is…

Couldn’t obtain online. Hiccup appears to be that they want to send a confirmation text to my mobile phone, but my mobile phone is in my wife’s name so they can’t verify that as my phone number.

Police officers are taught to shoot until the threat is over- i.e. man is down, not moving. In the heat of the moment, adrenaline pumping, accuracy is significantly decreased (as much as 50%), and studies have shown that, in the time it takes for the eyes to receive visual information, brain to process, transmit…