I did this once. It went from 5 mi to 0 in the space of two blocks. I wasn’t worried though, the station I was planning on going to anyway was just two more blocks away.

#justautocrossthings

Usually “fill up the car” goes on my todo list when it gets under a quarter tank, at which point I wait until a day & time that is convenient for me to go to a cheap station before the next time I will need it for a trip.

Yeah, if people hadn’t have been panicking about a potential shortage, there wouldn’t have been an actual shortage.

Nothing will make this work. “HHO” is a self-oxidizing fuel that releases heat to create water. It’s not a catalyst or oxidizer for the normal fuel-air reaction, it’s purely supplemental chemical energy. The problem is that you need to burn additional gasoline fuel to turn H2O into HHO, and that will always be more…

TNT only ‘burns’ for a tiny fraction of a second, it must be very safe.

Yeah, but stocks are boring as shit. I can’t drive my stock portfolio round the track.

It *does* illustrate very well how poorly trucks and cars interact in collisions due to their disparate safety regulations.

Maybe I don’t...I got up to Silver status on United for a couple years, but that was mostly trans-Atlantic flights. Most anywhere else I went was close enough for driving or trains to make sense. But they still say to show up two hours early for domestic flights, so that’s what I aim for, and sometimes I end up…

Of course there’s not a rail system on Earth that can do LA to Houston in 9 hours. I was only giving an idealized minimum travel time to make the point that we’re arguing about totally different things. You’re saying that flying is good for long hauls and I’m saying that trains are good for short hauls, where…

Also the transit time from Houston to LA at Eurostar speeds would be about 9 hours, which is sort of outside the range of distances we’re discussing...

Routes on the scale of Houston-to-LA aren’t what we’re discussing here. More like, SF to LA.

I’m with you there. I’ve considered and rejected the possibility of taking the train from VA to CT to visit my parents for holidays, but American train service is too slow and shitty to make it worthwhile. But my comparison point is making the drive myself, and I’m a person who will prefer to drive 12 hours if I can…

Four hours from my front door to the hotel check-in desk, like I said.

I guess I’m in the minority, but I don’t think “distracted driving” should be a primary offense (i.e. something you can get pulled over for by itself). You should be pulled over for actual erratic driving behaviours (lane wandering, failure to signal, etc.), and “distracted driving” would be an additional penalty.

Jughandles would be far less annoying if they were at least consistent about it.

The rail system in Europe is amazing. I used to take the Eurostar from Brussels to London, and it was about 4 hours from my front door to my hotel. That includes travel time by commuter train from 30 km outside of Brussels.

Depending what you want to portray, color can be distracting. Removing color makes the viewer explicitly focus on lines, shapes, and texture, emphasizing leading lines, removing background distractions, etc. Black & white has a purpose in itself.

I mean, it might have happened, but only because “trucks” weren’t to be included in this average.

But when you’re talking about people buying performance cars for performance driving, the direct individual benefits of buying new aren’t as strong. Like, if you’re going to gut it, mod it, and go rallycrossing or whatever, it murders the resale value and voids your warranty, so why bother buying new? Just to send a…