The instructor knows the car and the track and they can see (and feel) what you’re doing. They’ll know well before you will if you’ve set yourself up properly for the next turn.

Except that they do play it safe. Many places include simulator sessions before you even sit in an actual car. Once in a car, the first lap may be the instructor driving or the guest driving but under strict instructor direction.

Not going to happen but I wouldn’t be surprised if Bannon wrote an EO to that effect and Trumps signs it with no one having done the most basic research, i.e. read the relevant bits of the Constitution: Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 as well as the 25th amendment.

He sure will once he’s moved out all the slow-moving stock.

What did that sign on President Truman’s desk say? “The Buck Stops Here.”

I was thinking the same thing. Everything happening now is self-inflicted. If an actual terrorist attack occurred or he got us into a shooting war somewhere I wonder how 45 will (mis-) handle it. Because. He. Will. Mishandle. It.

Don’t wish for his death. Instead, wish for him to live a long life so that he spends as much time as possible reliving the shame and failure of his single-term so-called “administration.”

“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

‘45.’ I like it. I’m going to use that going forward.

The Pixar Theory (fancier presentation here) already accounts for the absence of humans in the Cars world.

If there is a defect or deficiency in the design of the part(s) in question, shouldn’t there be more cases of this type of failure in the wild? Or does it only occur if a driver with a particular build also has a peculiar way of getting out of the seat?

It’s not that simple. Not all cars are created equal.

You can’t ask to buy a LaFerrari. They invite you to purchase one.

It’s not even that. The pads, I mean.

This explains why I was seeing so many 500e’s on CarMax’s site a few weeks ago when I was “shopping.” Prices were around 10K IIRC.

34HP. Wow. My Piaggio BV350 scooter makes 33-ish HP out of a single 330cc cylinder, 4-stroke engine. It’ll do 86MPH tops all day long but, unlike the Mini Estate, is miserable to ride when it’s raining, really cold, or worst of all, really cold and raining.

Not really since his name and likely the man himself isn’t Japanese.

This is frighteningly accurate.

Shyamalan Plot-Twist: He asked for extra peanuts when they handed them out so he has two more bags of peanuts squirreled away for later use.

I saw a 2015-ish Nissan Sentra smashed up on the side of a road after an accident clean-up. I was driving the same model car so I got to see how the crumple zones and what-not did their jobs. The front-end was pretty wrecked but the cabin was still intact and the air bags deployed. Yep, the person totally survived. Car…