alexofthemountains
Alex of the Mountains
alexofthemountains

On the upside, he can now buy a Bremont Martin Baker II with the red casement - sold exclusively to those few who have ejected from an aircraft. Every cloud...

Some buddies were driving a pickup back from San Felipe with passengers in the bed (apparently no law against it in Mexico). They took out a flamingo that landed on the road in front of them. They guys in the back said they were just enjoying the view when they were suddenly engulfed in pink feathers.

Back in my internship days, I was in the habit of getting up and going to the office extra early to avoid traffic (1 hr + commute), so I would generally leave the house around 5AM. Its still dark outside and I’m driving down a 45 MPH street probably doing about 50 with light traffic behind me. I somewhat see something

Did you get some sweet POWER FIST tools too ?

Super clean cars that are driven with a few minor rock chips are good too.

Renewing your vows should reserved for last ditch efforts to save your marriage, not pledging everlasting fealty to your employer. It’s just plain weird.

Nissan innovates with engines, they just mostly land in Infiniti models.

If it starts getting in the way of functionality or safety, the engineer and fellow road-user in me gets upset.

And for the folks in California: please don’t get ANY fireworks. Half of the state is on fire anyway.

I think I still have 2 Fiat 850 brake calipers sitting in mostly dehydrated cans of mineral spirits too.

Converting thrust to HP is notoriously finicky because they measure different things. Thrust is a measure of a force exerted on an object while horsepower is a measure of work performed, which is the amount of motion a force creates when exerted on a body over a defined period of time.

Elvis and The Thrusty Bits is now the name of my imaginary rockabilly band.

Fiero frunk count?

I mean if he upgraded the cars to those spoked wheels from the skateboard or bike potholes wouldn’t even be an issue at all..

GDPR was written and voted on before the US elections. It took 2 years to come into place because EU regulations often come with a very long delay to give everyone a chance to comply.

Although, to be fair, the Abarth in Europe is like 130 hp - their Abarth is our Turbo, their Abarth Esseesse is our Abarth.

I own a BMW, and I use mine every damn time. Slowly repairing the brand image, one blinker at a time.

Failing to recognize large objects (leading to serious crashes) is a symptom of this technology being a large-scale public beta. I could really take either side of the debate, it’s a feature I would LOVE to have in my car, but it’s also something that must work reliably. This technology is not much more than being a

I think the classification problem will be biggest issue with these systems. And the guaranteed to happen future accidents will always be freaky in nature, meaning for example the system mistakenly thinks the oddly parked, flat sided fire truck is a road sign it can ignore. I have had an a current generation (AP2) car